Region: America South & Antartica

Gareth Gretton (with Daniel Carrivick & Jonathan Ellis from UK and Catalina Llado from Spain). June-August 2002

Despite heights and names differing from 'official' maps, the sketch map produced by Paul Hudson in 1993 has proved very useful to subsequent climbers visiting the Cordillera Apolobamba, but it is most unlikely that all the peaks marked as 'unclimbed' still remain so. However, this team used it as a basis for their exploration of the Cololo Massif, where they climbed 3 mountains from a BC at the far eastern end of the Lago Pauoche. The first was Nevado Jacha Huaracha (aka Pelechuco, Pt 5527 & Pt 5488) by its N Face & W Ridge at AD-, although they stopped short of the summit because of a threatening cornice: next came Nevado Nubi, 5710m on which they placed an intermediate camp before climbing its W Ridge at AD, and finally an unnamed peak - probably Pt 5490 on the Hudson map - which they climbed vas its E Ridge at F.