Other than Aconcagua, High Andes is not particularly popular among the climbers. Also Polish glacier route is reasonably popular.
Normal route is glacier free and non-technical, because of this and the height, it is very popular. The highest peak of the group, Aconcagua (6960m) is the highest peak of South-America. High Andes lie further south on the border between Chile and Argentina. This is where the highest mountain and probably the best-known climbing destination of South America, Aconcagua (or Cerro Aconcagua 6962m), is located. The peaks on these ranges are generally not very alpine in nature and tend to offer relatively non-technical glacier routes to very high peaks. Puna de Atacama is high plateau in the northern Chile and Argentina. Most of the highest peaks in South America are located in Puna de Atacama and High Andes located in the central part of the chain running more or less along Chile/Argentina border. The Capital city La Paz (3510m) lies on the Altiplano, very close to Cordillera Real, thus serving as a good base. Cordillera Occidental has isolated volcanoes that are very high but usually easily climbable. Mountains in Cordillera Apolobamba and Cordillera Real are mostly heavily glaciated and alpine in nature. Of these, Cordillera Real is the highest and by far the best known and most visited. Most alpine ranges are Cordillera APolobamba, Real and Quimsa Cruz, all located in Cordillera Oriental. For the sake of this site, Peruvian Cordilleras have been divided into four main sections, each of them with several cordilleras.īolivia's most distinctive geographical feature is the Altiplano, a high plateau contained between Cordillera Real in the North, Cordillera Occidental in the west and Cordillera Oriental in the east. As usual for most everything in Peru, division on mountains into Cordilleras is not very structured is fixed. Most of them are little explored and not much is known about climbing in them. Peru has quite of a few mountain ranges, or Cordilleras, covering large part of the country. By far the most popular climbing peaks are Chimborazo (6310m) and Cotopaxi (5897m) in Ecuador. There are also several isolated volcanic peaks. Eastern and Western Cordilleras continue through Ecuador as well. Northern Andes of Venezuela, Columbia and Ecuador are divided into several ranges Venezuealan Andes are concentrated around Sierra Nevada National Park, Columbian Andes consist of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the extreme north of the country, further south, the Eastern, Central, and Western Cordilleras are parallel north-south ranges. Also Chimborazo and Cotopaxi in Ecuador attracts significant number of climbers. Best known climbing areas are the mountains around Aconcagua, Cordilleras Blanca and Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes and Patagonia in the southern end of the range. Southern America is dominated by the chain of Andes that stretches from the southern tip of Argentina and Chile to the northern part of Columbia. Credit: Ankara, Shot on Photo taken in El Chalten, Argentina.(c) Ankara, licensed under: CC BY-SA 3.0. Fitz Roy (Cerro Chaltén) from the road to El Chaltén.