Cordillera Vilcanota. From August 3 to 24, 1973 I led a German ...

Southern Peru Cordillera Vilcanota. F rom August 3 to 24, 1973 I led a G erm an Alpine Club group to the Vilcanota. We were H olger Bantele, K arl Engelbrecht, K arl and G unda H acker, F ranz H auer, H orst H arich, Dr. H ans M acholdt, Dr. R udolf Neeb, A lfred Späth, Dr. H ans Sommer, K äte Schott, R einhard Rossner, Dr. Georg Hentschel, Anneliese Ströhlein and I. F rom M allm a on the Quince Mil road we reached our first Base Camp at the east end of Laguna Sigrina or T iratinte. F rom a high camp a few of us climbed two peaks northw est of Cayangate I, given on John Ricker’s map as P 5885 and P 5600 (19,308 and 18,373 feet respec­ tively). O ur aneroid barom eter gave altitudes of only 5250 and 5200 meters (17,225 and 17,061 feet). The northern peak is rock but we could find no signs of an ascent. We then turned to one of the lower summits of the Y anacancha group. Since belay possibilities were poor just below the summit, I soloed to the summ it (5250 meters or 17,225 feet). We moved to the Pakkopam pa valley in the eastern part of the heavily glaciated A yacachi group. W e climbed six peaks, finding no signs of previous ascents on the rock summits, although the peaks were easy and may have been climbed before. We ascended N evado Belacocha

(5060 meters or 16,601 feet) north of the valley, P 5160 (16,929 feet) and P 5230 (17,159 feet) at the head of the valley and P 5010 (16,437 feet), P 5170 (16,962 feet) and P 5100 (16,733 feet), south of the head of the valley. (T he peaks appear on John R icker’s m ap.) H

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