Lagunas Bravas - First Ascent - Climber.Org Trip Report

Lagunas Bravas - First Ascent
(Argentina)

12 Dec 2000 - Bob Ayers

Peaks: Lagunas Bravas
(sorted/filed as Lagunasbravas)

Three years ago, John Biggar's "High Andes" book came out and listed three 6000+ meter peaks in South America as "no known ascent".

"No known ascent" is not the same as "no ascent" and I figured that the peaks in Biggar were probably already climbed:

They are technically easy -- make that technically trivial. (Volcanic desert peaks: low angle rubble without snow.)
Two of the three are on the Chile-Argentina border, which was surveyed long ago.
The Inca visited summits all over the place.

Still, it was a good excuse. I hired a Chilean driver to check-out the access and I wrote Santiago for permission and ...

12 December 2000: First ascent of Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas, 6155 meters. Ayers, Doherty, Morgan, and Brake.

We left the other peaks (and the Argentine summits of Sierra Nevada) for you-guys ... :-)

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