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Mount Fitzroy)
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Coordinates:
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49°17′ S 73°05′ W
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First ascent:
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1952 by
Lionel Terray &
Guido Magnone
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route:
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Cerro Chaltén, also known as
Cerro Fitzroy, is a
mountain located in the
Los Glaciares National Park of
Patagonia, near the
El Chaltén village, in
Argentina
The name
Chaltén comes from a
Mapuche word meaning "smoking mountain," due to a cloud that usually forms in the top of the mountain, and it was considered sacred by them. The mountain is the simbol of the
Santa Cruz Province, who has it represented in its coat of arms.
It was Perito
Francisco Moreno who named
Fitzroy in 1877, after the explorer
Robert Fitzroy. It was first climbed in
1952 by
French alpinists Lionnel Terray and Guido Magnone.
The mountain has a reputation of being "ultimate", despite it's relatively insignificant height (although being the highest peak in the
Los Glaciares park, it is less than half the
Himalayan giants), because the sheer
granite faces present large sheets of very technical climbing. It also attracts many photographers thanks to its otherworldly shape.
The mountain, while being more accessible than, say,
Denali in Alaska, remains difficult and remains the preserve of very experienced climbers, although tourism is opening the area. Today, when a hundred people can summit
Everest in a single day, Cerro Chaltén may only be successfully ascended once in a year.
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