Nevado Huascarán

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Nevado Huascarán
Nevado Huascarán (view from the west)

Nevado Huascarán (view from the west)

height 6768  m
location Ancash , Peru
Mountains Cordillera Blanca , Western Peruvian Cordillera
Dominance 2207 km →  Ojos del Salado
Notch height 2798 m ↓  (3970 m)
Coordinates 9 ° 7 ′ 16 ″  S , 77 ° 36 ′ 17 ″  W Coordinates: 9 ° 7 ′ 16 ″  S , 77 ° 36 ′ 17 ″  W
Nevado Huascarán (Peru)
Nevado Huascarán
First ascent July 20, 1932 by a German-Austrian expedition with H. Bernhard, E. Hein, H. Hoerlin, and E. Schneider, P. Borchers
Normal way High tour from the north-west side over the Garganta
View from the north of the two peaks of Nevado Huascarán (left Pico Sur, right Pico Norte)

View from the north of the two peaks of Nevado Huascarán (left Pico Sur, right Pico Norte)

View from the south. Left Huandoy, center left Huascarán Norte, center right Huascarán Sur

View from the south. Left Huandoy , center left Huascarán Norte, center right Huascarán Sur

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The Nevado Huascarán ( Quechua : Waskaran ) is located in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes and, with a height of 6768  m, is the highest mountain in Peru and the fifth highest mountain in South America . The Nevado Huascarán is located in the Huascarán National Park . The mountain consists of two peaks, the Huascarán Sur ( 6768  m ) and the Huascarán Norte ( 6655  m , ( ⊙ )).

The Huascarán is topographically connected to the Chopicalqui ( 6354  m ) in the east .

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history

The Huascarán Norte was first climbed in 1908 by the Zermatt mountain guides Gabriel Zumtaugwald and Rudolf Taugwalder and the US American Annie Smith Peck . Peck had calculated an altitude of 24,000 feet (7,315 m) for the Huascarán Norte (660 m too much). Until the error was cleared up, she considered herself the holder of the height record for women.

In 1932 a German-Austrian expedition led by Philipp Borchers succeeded in making the first ascent of Huascarán Sur . In addition to Borchers, Erwin Schneider , Wilhelm Bernard, Hermann Hoerlin and Erwin Hein reached the summit.

On January 10, 1962, huge masses of rock and ice broke off from the northern summit of Huascarán. They rolled down to the valley at a speed of about 120 km / h. Several places were overrun by the debris avalanche. Estimates of the number of victims ranged between 2,000 and 4,000 people.

On May 31, 1970, after an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale , a gigantic landslide occurred on the northwest flank, affecting the city of Yungay ( 9 ° 9 ′ 1 ″  S , 77 ° 44 ′ 12 ″  W ) destroyed and cost the lives of about 20,000 residents. During this landslide, the base camp of a 15-strong Czechoslovak mountaineering team was buried under meter-high debris.

particularities

According to a measurement from 2013, the acceleration due to gravity on the summit of Nevado Huascarán is the lowest in the world at only 9.7639 m / s².

Trivia

In 1989 a group of eight amateur climbers (the "Social Climbers") held a cultivated picnic on the top of the mountain, which was included in the 1990 edition of the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's highest dinner party" .

Web links

Commons : Huascarán  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Oskar E. Busch: Peru Trekking Guide . Rother, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-7633-2705-8 , pp. 102 ( Google Books ).
  2. ↑ The Alps. Journal of the Swiss Alpine Club , vol. 10 (1934), p. 224.
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Fagg Olds: Women of the four winds. Biographies of four of America's first women explorers: Annie S. Peek, Delia J. Akeley, Marguerite Harrison and Louise A. Boyd . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1985, ISBN 0-395-39584-4 , p. 58.
  4. ^ Roger Frison-Roche , Sylvain Jouty: A History of Mountain Climbing . Flammarion, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-08-013622-4 , p. 177.
  5. ^ Nicholas Mailänder : Top mountain sports . In: Berg Heil! Alpine Club and Mountaineering 1918 to 1945, Cologne 2011, p. 149.
  6. ↑ Aludes en la provincia de Yungay. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 28, 2018 ; Retrieved November 8, 2017 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ 1962: Thousands killed in Peru landslide. In: BBC . January 11, 1962, accessed January 9, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Wissen.de: Nevado Huascaran 1970 ( Memento from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Research News: The acceleration of gravity fluctuates more than expected. Deutschlandfunk , August 20, 2013, accessed on May 25, 2015 .
  10. ^ Curtin University : Gravity variations over Earth much bigger than previously thought. In: Science News. ScienceDaily, September 4, 2013, accessed May 25, 2015 .
  11. ^ Christian Hirt, Sten Claessens, Thomas Fecher, Michael Kuhn, Roland Pail , Moritz Rexer: New ultrahigh-resolution picture of Earth's gravity field . Geophysical Research Letters, 2013; doi : 10.1002 / grl.50838