Cordillera Vilcanota. An expedition of the Paris-Chamonix section of the French Alpine Club was composed of Guy Collard, Jacques Martinet, Léon Carron, Suzanne Valentini, Jean-Pierre de Léglise, Bernard Lock, Annik Wates, Françoise Dot and me. We climbed three peaks in the Colloriti group with very bad snow conditions in an attempt to reach the main peak. We tried the south ridge on August 7 but had to turn back from a snow dome. On the 8th we climbed a 5300- meter (17,389-foot) peak on the ridge that extends southwest from Colloriti and on August 9 a 5400-meter (17,717-foot) peak on the east ridge. In the Colque Cruz massif we placed Base Camp on the southeast end of Laguna Tingrina and Camp II northwest of Colque Cruz. On August 11 Carron and Wates climbed Huayna Ausangate (18,373 feet) while Valentini and I climbed Cuchillo (18,701 feet). These two lie northwest of Colque Cruz.

JEAN DOT, Club Alpin Français