South America, Peru–Cordillera Blanca, Ango

Publication Year: 1972.

Ango. On September 16 the Italian priest Gianni Ventura Libardini claimed with the Austrian nurse Erminia Zopf to have made the first ascent of a snow peak of 5500+ meters (18,045 feet) at the head of the Quebrada Pajush, which rises east of San Marcos in the Mosna valley, which he called Cima Bolzano. The only snow peak in that range, the next to the east from the Cordillera Blanca, does lie at the head of the Quebrada Pajush and is 16,811-foot Ango, the first ascent of which was made July 10, 1968 by Adams Carter, Richard Goody, Donald Morton, David Redmond and Glicerio Henostroza. This latest ascent was a second ascent by a new route.