Don't go here! We set out to...

Don't go here! We set out to...

Don't go here! We set out to climb Ishinca by the route going straight for the Col, as this was described in one of the Spanish-language guidebooks. It looks like a simple scree-climb, and there are tracks that you can see close to the col. It some point, it becomes more of a scramble, but an easy one. The problem for us was a steady stream of rocks. I was out of the scree-field to find a easier route, when a meter-size rock comes whoosing down the route, hitting an outcrop and exploding in a rain of small rocks, just where we had been five minutes earlier. The real route goes closer to Ranrapalca, so if you just blindly follow the tracks rather than guidebooks and maps, you'll be OK.
Kjetil
on Jul 10, 2004 3:38 pm
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Rafa Bartolome

Rafa Bartolome - Aug 19, 2004 6:24 am - Hasn't voted

The route of west glacier

yes, in effect this route was realized for first time in 1964 when the glacier covered completely the west face of Ishinca by austrian mountaineers. According to the book of JJ Tomé "Escaladas en los Andes" this route is not advisable and even dangerous in the current time for the rocks in the place of the old glacier (corroborated by me seeing the zone from the ridge NE this summer). The ridges NE and SW are the correct routes at present (2004).

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