El Plomo
| El Plomo | ||
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 South-west side. |
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| height | 5424 m | |
| location | Región Metropolitana , Chile | |
| Mountains | To the | |
| Coordinates | 33 ° 13 '58 " S , 70 ° 12' 44" W | |
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| First ascent | - approx. 1500 by the Inca . - 1896 Gustavo Brandt and Rodolfo Luck. |
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The Cerro El Plomo is a mountain in the Andes , 5,424 meters high, 46 km northeast of Santiago de Chile . It was first climbed by the Inca around 1500 AD , who sacrificed a child to him as a mountain god and buried it at the summit. Because of its low level of difficulty, it is one of the most frequently climbed five-thousanders in Chile.
description
El Plomo is part of an imposing massif . Its summit and the glaciers extending from it are visible from afar in the capital region. The mountain massif belongs to the Andean high mountain range Sierra Esmeralda, whose peaks and passes are between 4000 and 5400 m.
On the southwest side of El Plomo there are mighty scree slopes that make the ascent considerably easier. In contrast, the east side has walls that slope almost vertically by 1500 to 2000 m. Between the main peak and the secondary peak ( 33 ° 14 ′ S , 70 ° 13 ′ W ), which is 300 m away and visible from Santiago , lies a plateau that remains free of snow even in winter due to the prevailing strong winds. There is a 20 by 10 meter large pond that only freezes over on the surface.
For the Inca , El Plomo was a mountain god. In the period between 1483 and 1533 they built graves and places of worship, paved paths and shelters on the ascent and near the summit. In 1954 the permafrost corpse of an eight-year-old boy who had been sacrificed to the mountain deity was discovered near the summit .
The first publicly known ascent took place in 1896 by the German-Chileans Gustavo Brandt and Rodolfo Luck. To their disappointment, they found rubbish left behind by other people on the summit.
photos
Destroyed Inca grave and small lake at 5400 m
Inca cult site at 5200 m
Leonera (left) and El Plomo
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Estimated location and altitude according to Google Maps 2013, taking into account the map by Luis Krahl Tafelmaier.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Luis Krahl (1922–1996): El cerro El Plomo. Construcciones precolumbinas . In: Grete Mostny (ed.): Boletin del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural. La Momia del Cerro El Plomo . tape XXVII , no. 1 . Santiago de Chile 1957, p. 85–95 ( dibam.cl [PDF; accessed December 10, 2013]).
- ↑ Grete Mostny et al .: La Momia del Cerro El Plomo . In: Boletin del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural . tape XXVII , no. 1 . Santiago de Chile 1957 ( dibam.cl [PDF; accessed December 10, 2013]).
- ↑ Hermann Kiendler, The Andes - From Chimborazo to Marmolejo - All 6000s at a glance , Panico Alpinverlag, Köngen 2007, ISBN 978-3-936740-36-3 , pp. 351–352.
- ^ German gymnastics club o Club Gimnástico (1887). (No longer available online.) Club Aléman Andino (DAV), December 9, 2009, archived from the original on March 13, 2010 ; Retrieved on March 21, 2010 (Spanish, with picture by Brandt). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
