2010: Cerro Moyano, correction. By Markus Kautz

The lines on Cerros Norte and Moyano. Inset: original route (left) and the new route. Robert Koschitzki


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Cerro Moyano, correction.

By Markus Kautz, Germany

In the 2009 AAJ, pp. 209–210, Robert Koschitzki reported our climbing what we thought was a new variation on Cerro Moyano. Now, after personal contact with Héctor Cuiñas, a member of the Argentine 1976 first ascent party, we have learned that our route is not a variation of the Argentine Route, but a completely independent one. [The Argentine Route ascends a gully on the left side of the north face (barely visible on the shaded north face in the inset photo in AAJ 2009), then the northeast ridge to the summit—Ed.]