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 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. Peak Height (m) Height (ft) Route Climbers Nationality Ref Huascaran N. 6655 21,834 Annie Smith Peck, Gabriel Zumtaugwald and Rudolf Taugwalder Lefebvre, Thierry L'invention occidentale de la haute montagne andine, M@ppemonde Vol. 19, p. 16 (2005) Huascaran S. 6746 22,132 Garganta and the NW-face Franz Bernard, Phillip Borchers, Erwin Hein, , and Erwin Schneider Chopicalqui 6345 20,846 Southwest Ridge Phillip Borchers, Erwin Hein, , and Erwin Schneider Artesonraju 6025 19,767 Northeast spur and North Ridge Erwin Hein and Erwin Schneider Huandoy N. 6395 20,866 Southern Slopes Erwin Hein and Erwin Schneider Quitaraju 6036 19,820 West Ridge Erwin Schneider and Juanjo Tomé, Escaladas en los Andes - Guía de la Cordillera Blanca, Madrid: Desnivel Ediciones, 1999, Ranrapalca 6162 20,217 Northeast ridge Walter Brecht, Siegfried Rohrer, Karl Schmid y Hans Schweizer Tocllaraju 6034 19,797 Northwest Ridge Walter Brecht and Hans Schweizer Hualcán N. 6122 20,085 South Ridge Siegfried Rohrer and Karl Schmid Ricker, John F. Yuraq Janka: A Guide to the Peruvian Andes, American Alpine Club (1977) Santa Cruz 6241 20,535 Northeastern face Frédéric Marmillod and Ali Szepessy-Schaurek Huantsán 6369 20,896 North-Northwest Ice Ridge(from Huantsan North) Lionel Terray, Cees G. Egeler and Tom de Booy D. F. O. Dangar, Alpine Notes, Alpine Journal Vol. 71, Nr 312-313 p. 145 (1966) Chacraraju West 6112 20,039 Northeastern Face Lionel Terray, Maurice Davaille, Claude Gaudin, Pierre Souriac, Robert Sennelier Alpamayo 5947 19,511 South Ridge , Berhard Huhn, Frieder Knauss, and Horst Wiedmann Jubiläumsexpedition Alpamayo - der schönste Berg der Welt (2014) Tullparaju 5787 18,986 West Ridge David Bernays, Leif-Norman Patterson and Charles Sawyer A Survey of Andean Ascents: 1961~1970 (1973)Harvard Mountaineering 5(16) (1963), The Harvard Mountaineering Club, p. 192007Huaytapallana I555718,232Northwest FaceJim Sykes, Anthony Barton24 Jul 2008Huaytapallana II502516,486North RidgeAnthony Barton, Olly Metherell
See also
List of highest mountains
Notes Juanjo Tomé, Escaladas en los Andes - Guía de la Cordillera Blanca, Madrid: Desnivel Ediciones, 1999, 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, (for a guideline; the book contains many major errors)
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