List of first ascents in the Cordillera Blanca explained

The following list summarizes notable first ascents of mountains and peaks in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Ancash, Peru, in chronological order.

Date ^[1]	Peak	Height (m)	Height (ft)	Route	Climbers	Nationality	Ref
		6655	21,834				^[2]
		6746	22,132	Garganta and the NW-face	Franz Bernard, Phillip Borchers, Erwin Hein,, and
		6345	20,846	Southwest Ridge	Phillip Borchers, Erwin Hein,, and
		6395	20,866	Southern Slopes	Erwin Hein and
		6036	19,820	West Ridge	and		^[3]
		6162	20,217	Northeast ridge	Walter Brecht, Siegfried Rohrer, Karl Schmid y Hans Schweizer
		6034	19,797	Northwest Ridge	Walter Brecht and Hans Schweizer		^[4]
		6122	20,085	South Ridge	Siegfried Rohrer and Karl Schmid		^[5]
		6241	20,535	Northeastern face	Frédéric Marmillod and Ali Szepessy-Schaurek
		6369	20,896	North-Northwest Ice Ridge (from Huantsan North)	Lionel Terray, Cees G. Egeler and Tom de Booy		^[6]
		6112	20,039	Northeastern Face	Lionel Terray, Maurice Davaille, Claude Gaudin, Pierre Souriac, Robert Sennelier
		5947	19,511	South Ridge	, Berhard Huhn, Frieder Knauss, and Horst Wiedmann		^[7]
		5787	18,986	West Ridge	David Bernays, Leif-Norman Patterson and Charles Sawyer		^[8] ^[9]
2007	Huaytapallana I	5557	18,232	Northwest Face	Jim Sykes, Anthony Barton		^[10]
24 Jul 2008	Huaytapallana II	5025	16,486	North Ridge	Anthony Barton, Olly Metherell		^[11]

See also

• List of highest mountains

Notes

• Juanjo Tomé, Escaladas en los Andes - Guía de la Cordillera Blanca, Madrid: Desnivel Ediciones, 1999,
• Lefebvre, Thierry, L’invention occidentale de la haute montagne andine, M@ppemonde Vol. 19 (2005).
• Frederick L. Wolfe, High Summits: 370 Famous Peak First Ascents and Other Significant Events in Mountaineering History, Hugo House Publishers, 2013, (for a guideline; the book contains many major errors)

References

Notes and References

1. An asterisk indicates that this is only the date of the first recorded ascent. There is either evidence for an earlier ascent or earlier ascents are very likely.
2. Lefebvre, Thierry L'invention occidentale de la haute montagne andine, M@ppemonde Vol. 19, p. 16 (2005)
3. Juanjo Tomé, Escaladas en los Andes - Guía de la Cordillera Blanca, Madrid: Desnivel Ediciones, 1999,
4. Web site: Tocllaraju. Summitpost.org. February 20, 2017.
5. Ricker, John F. Yuraq Janka: A Guide to the Peruvian Andes, American Alpine Club p. 90 (1977)
6. D. F. O. Dangar, Alpine Notes, Alpine Journal Vol. 71, Nr 312-313 p. 145 (1966)
7. http://www.hauser-exkursionen.de/fileadmin/tx_hauserbooking/pdf/DPR_PEK27_Alpamayo_Jubilaeum_2014.pdf Jubiläumsexpedition Alpamayo - der schönste Berg der Welt
8. http://c498469.r69.cf2.rackcdn.com/1973/venezu_andes1973_341-402.pdf A Survey of Andean Ascents: 1961~1970
9. http://www.harvardmountaineering.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1963.pdf Harvard Mountaineering 5(16)
10. Web site: AAC Publications - South America, Peru, Cordillera Blanca, Huaytapallana I and Huayatapallana II, East Summit, First Ascents . 2024-07-08 . publications.americanalpineclub.org.
11. Web site: British first ascent in the Cordillera Blanca . 2024-07-08 . thebmc.co.uk.