List of first ascents in the Cordillera Blanca

The following list summarizes notable first ascents of mountains and peaks in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Ancash, Peru, in chronological order.

Date [1]	Peak	Height (m)	Height (ft)	Route	Climbers	Nationality	Ref
2 Sep 1908	Huascaran N.	6655	21,834		Annie Smith Peck, Gabriel Zumtaugwald and Rudolf Taugwalder		[2]
20 Jul 1932	Huascaran S.	6746	22,132	Garganta and the NW-face	Franz Bernard, Phillip Borchers, Erwin Hein, Hermann Hoerlin  [ de ], and Erwin Schneider		[2]
3 Aug 1932	Chopicalqui	6345	20,846	Southwest Ridge	Phillip Borchers, Erwin Hein, Hermann Hoerlin  [ de ], and Erwin Schneider		[2]
19 Aug 1932	Artesonraju	6025	19,767	Northeast spur and North Ridge	Erwin Hein and Erwin Schneider		[3] (p73)
12 Sep 1932	Huandoy N.	6395	20,866	Southern Slopes	Erwin Hein and Erwin Schneider		[2]
17 Jul 1936	Quitaraju	6036	19,820	West Ridge	Erwin Schneider and Arnold Awerzger  [ de ]		[4]
25 Jun 1939	Ranrapalca	6162	20,217	Northeast ridge	Walter Brecht, Siegfried Rohrer, Karl Schmid y Hans Schweizer		[2]
31 Jul 1939	Tocllaraju	6034	19,797	Northwest Ridge	Walter Brecht and Hans Schweizer		[5]
Aug 1939	Hualcán N.	6122	20,085	South Ridge	Siegfried Rohrer and Karl Schmid		[3] (p90)
20 Jul 1948	Santa Cruz	6241	20,535	Northeastern face	Frédéric Marmillod and Ali Szepessy-Schaurek		[2]
7 Jul 1952	Huantsán	6369	20,896	North-Northwest Ice Ridge (from Huantsan North)	Lionel Terray, Cees G. Egeler and Tom de Booy		[6]
31 Jul 1956	Chacraraju West	6112	20,039	Northeastern Face	Lionel Terray, Maurice Davaille, Claude Gaudin, Pierre Souriac, Robert Sennelier		[4]
20 Jun 1957	Alpamayo	5947	19,511	South Ridge	Günter Hauser  [ de ], Berhard Huhn, Frieder Knauss, and Horst Wiedmann		[7]
24 Jul 1962	Tullparaju	5787	18,986	West Ridge	David Bernays, Leif-Norman Patterson and Charles Sawyer		[8] [9]
2007	Huaytapallana I	5557	18,232	Northwest Face	Jim Sykes, Anthony Barton		[10]
24 Jul 2008	Huaytapallana II	5025	16,486	North Ridge	Anthony Barton, Olly Metherell		[11] [10]

See also

• Mountains portal

• List of highest mountains

Notes

• Juanjo Tomé, Escaladas en los Andes - Guía de la Cordillera Blanca, Madrid: Desnivel Ediciones, 1999, ISBN   978-8489969438
• Lefebvre, Thierry, L’invention occidentale de la haute montagne andine, M@ppemonde Vol. 19 (2005).
• Frederick L. Wolfe, High Summits: 370 Famous Peak First Ascents and Other Significant Events in Mountaineering History, Hugo House Publishers, 2013, ISBN   1936449358 (for a guideline; the book contains many major errors)

References

1. An asterisk indicates that this is only the date of the first recorded ascent. There is either evidence for an earlier ascent or earlier ascents are very likely.
2. Lefebvre, Thierry L'invention occidentale de la haute montagne andine, M@ppemonde Vol. 19, p. 16 (2005)
3. Ricker, John F. Yuraq Janka: A Guide to the Peruvian Andes, American Alpine Club (1977)
4. Juanjo Tomé, Escaladas en los Andes - Guía de la Cordillera Blanca, Madrid: Desnivel Ediciones, 1999, ISBN   978-8489969438
5. "Tocllaraju". Summitpost.org. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
6. D. F. O. Dangar, Alpine Notes, Alpine Journal Vol. 71, Nr 312-313 p. 145 (1966)
7. Jubiläumsexpedition Alpamayo - der schönste Berg der Welt Archived 2017-01-18 at the Wayback Machine (2014)
8. A Survey of Andean Ascents: 1961~1970 (1973)
9. Harvard Mountaineering 5(16) Archived 2017-02-07 at the Wayback Machine (1963),The Harvard Mountaineering Club, p. 19
10. "AAC Publications - South America, Peru, Cordillera Blanca, Huaytapallana I and Huayatapallana II, East Summit, First Ascents". publications.americanalpineclub.org. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
11. "British first ascent in the Cordillera Blanca". thebmc.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-08.