South America, Peru, Central Peru, Huaytapallana Karu

Publication Year: 1971.

Huaytapallana Karu. In late June Pete Barry, New Zealand, Frank Hepburn, Scot and I left for Lampa but by bus got only as far as Chilifruta, where the road was still closed from landslides caused by a severe earthquake in November, 1969. From destroyed Lampa we walked northwest exploring the west and north approaches to the Huaytapallana Karu. In the first week of July Hepburn and I climbed a small 16,000-foot snow peak called Yanaocro by the inhabitants of Quebrade Chaquicocha; it lies between that valley and Quebrada Huaracayo. We three climbed a 16,500-foot snow peak close to and southwest of the northernmost of the four major summit massifs of the Huaytapallana Karu. We called the peak Otcollo Oeste since the main peak is called Otcollo by the people of Huaracayo, which lies closest. Inhabitants of Chaquicocha called it Allincrai.

Hugh Clark, Club Andinista Cordillera Blanca