South America, Bolivia, Illimani, Cordillera Real

Publication Year: 1971.

Illimani, Cordillera Real. Among several successful groups which reached the 21,201-foot summit of Illimani in 1970 were Italians from a large group sent out by the Uget section of the Club Alpino Italiano. From Camp III at 19,000 feet the guide Lino Andreotti on August 15 led Vittorio Chiadò, Giuseppe Ferrari, Carlo Pedenovi, Marziano DiMaio and Lina Monge to the summit. One of the others of the group had to be evacuated from Camp II with pulmonary edema.