Cerro Torre
Cerro Torre in 1994
Elevation	3,133 metres (10,280 feet)
Location	Patagonia, Argentina, Chile
Range	Andes
Coordinates	49°19′S 73°10′W
First ascent	Disputed (see text)
Easiest route	rock/snow/ice

Cerro Torre is one of the most spectacular mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. It is located in a region which is disputed between Argentina and Chile, west of Cerro Chalten (also known as Fitz Roy). The peak is the highest in a four mountain chain: the other peaks are Torre Egger, Punta Herron, and Cerro Stanhardt. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (788x1202, 81 KB) 1994 photograph by Christof Berger. ... A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ... In orange the area most commonly defined as Patagonia. ... A mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands or separated from other mountain ranges by passes or rivers. ... The Andes form the longest mountain chain in the world. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... In climbing, a first ascent (FA) is the first climb to reach the top of a mountain, or the first to follow a particular climbing route. ... Southern and northern Mount Everest climbing routes as seen from the International Space Station. ... Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska (USA) has the highest visible base-to-summit elevation on Earth (approximately 5400 metres). ... View to the ice field from the Perito Moreno Glacier The Southern Patagonia Ice Field is the third biggest extension of continental ice after the Antarctica and Greenland, located at the Southern Patagonic Andes between Chile and Argentina, and part of the Patagonian Ice Sheet It extends from parallels 48... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... 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 the border between Argentina and Chile. ...

First ascent

Cesare Maestri claimed in 1959 that he and Toni Egger had reached the summit and that Egger had been swept to his death by an avalanche while they were descending. However, inconsistencies in Maestri's account, and the lack of bolts, pitons or fixed ropes on the route has led most mountaineers to doubt Maestri's claim.^[1] Only in 2005, after many attempts by world-class alpinists, was a confirmed route put up on the face that Maestri claimed to have climbed.^[2] Cesare Maestri (born 2 October 1929) is an Italian mountaineer and writer. ...

The first undisputed ascent is that by Daniele Chiappa, Mario Conti, Casimiro Ferrari, and Pino Negri in 1974.

The route was long considered the hardest mountain climb in the world.

Trivia

Cerro Torre was featured in the 1991 film Scream of Stone, directed by Werner Herzog. Werner Herzog. ...

References

1. ^ Rolando Garibotti. A mountain unveiled: a revealing analysis of Cerro Torre’s tallest tale. American Alpine Club.
2. ^ Alpinist Magazine, Issue 16

• Kearney, Alan, 1993. Mountaineering in Patagonia. Seattle USA: Cloudcap.

External links

• Map of Cerro Torre
• Cerro Torre on SummitPost.org
• Article on Cesare Maestri and the controversy regarding the first ascent