Aguja Saint Exupery

Mountain in the Los Glaciares National Park in Patagonia, Argentina

49°17′18.5″S 73°02′17.7″W / 49.288472°S 73.038250°W / -49.288472; -73.038250GeographyLocationPatagonia, ArgentinaParent rangeAndesGeologyMountain typegraniteClimbingFirst ascent1968 by Silvia Metzeltin, Gino Buscaini, Lino Condot, Walter Romano & Silvano Sinigoi (Italy)Easiest routerock/snow/ice

The Aguja Saint Exupery is a mountain spear ('aguja') located near the Cerro Chaltén in the Los Glaciares National Park in Patagonia, Argentina.^[1]

The mountain is named in memory of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French writer and aviator who was director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline and pioneered postal flights in the Patagonia region between 1929 and 1931.

The Aguja Saint Exupery is not as impressive as its taller neighbors Cerro Chaltén and the striking Cerro Torre, but due to the length of its climbing routes and the extreme weather conditions of the southern Andes, it shares the same big wall reputation as most Patagonian peaks.^[2] The Aguja Saint Exupery was first climbed on February 23, 1968, by Silvia Metzeltin, Gino Buscaini, Lino Condot, Walter Romano & Silvano Sinigoi, an Italian team of climbers who opened an 800 metres (2,625 ft) route on its East Pillar.

Dead mountaineers

Bryn Carlyle Norman, a Canadian in January 2012.

References

^ "Wicked Gravity: It's Miller time: local legend wields his own secret weapon". Boulder Daily Camera. 2020-09-16. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
^ Gallello, Óscar Gogorza, Nacho Catalán, Ignacio (2021-03-21). "Hazaña en solitario en el Fitz Roy". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-10-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Kearney, Alan, 1993. Mountaineering in Patagonia. Seattle USA: Cloudcap.

External links

Aguja Saint Exupery at SummitPost Climbing Site
Aguja Saint Exupery at Climb and More
"Aguja Saint Exupery". Peakware.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
Expe Climbing Site (French)
Climbing Site (Spanish)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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