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HISTORY OF ALPINISM IN ARGENTINA

The precursors from the colony until the year 1900" during the years of the colony and the first decades of the Republic there was no mountain climbing. It was inthose centuries when they were created the associated toponyms of Spanish origin, the folklore of the mountains and a cartography incipient. Perhaps could have been a certain class of mountaineers:the huaqueros, Incan violators of sanctuaries. The twentieth century saw the expansion of the border, from the cities of the coast and the interior of the pampa.
It was after the foothills and then tothe mountains themselves. The first ascension andean record was that of a military browser, M. Olascoaga who, with some soldiers, ascended the top of the Domuyo Volcano (4660), in 1882. A year later,appeared the first athlete itself. The German mountaineer Paul Gussfeldt ascended the Maipo volcano (5290) and attempt the Aconcagua reaching 6560 meters. Alternated then mountaineers and explorers.The boundary commissions from Argentina and Chile border mapped the cordillera and amounted certain summits of the Puna. The mountaineers, as it was usual, also should be scientific and were carryingout studies and geological mapping and, to the pair that sporting activities. The most famous expedition of this class was the Fitz Gerald in 1897. Its components were the summits of the Aconcagua andTupungato and Cathedral.


In 1901, a Swedish group under the command of Of Rosen ascended the Nevado del Chani (6060) inaugurating the "archaeological climbing" finding in the top objects andInca constructions. But the outstanding figure, is that of Dr. Federico Reichert. German, born in 1878, came to Argentina contracted by the government as a chemist, geologist and explorer.
Scaled thesummits of the Socompa (6031), Chani, Juncal (6110), Nevado of the lead (6050), skirts (5947) and Tupungato. Reichert ceased their adventures in the years 40 and died in 1953 at the age of 75. After...
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