South America, Chile, Cerro San Francisco, Central Andes

Publication Year: 1968.

Cerro San Francisco, Central Andes. Two local climbers, Mario Alfaro and Iván Vigoroux, and the Frenchman Philippe Grenier made the first ascent of the southeast buttress of Cerro San Francisco (14,698 feet) on February 2. The climb, some 2300 feet of rock and ice, required a bivouac.

José AmbrÚs, Federación de Andinismo de Chile