Summary
General Information
Punta Negra
Sin acceso
Location: Chile, Región Metropolitana
Area: Cordón de los Picos Negros
Nearest city: San José de Maipo
Altitude:
4127 m.
4090 m. Lliboutry
Year First ascent: 1946
First ascent:
Alejandro Fergadiott (CL), Avelino Muñoz (CL) y Santiago Costa (CL).
Geographic position:
Lat: -33° 36' 58.2" (WGS 84)
Lon: -70° 3' 35.7"
Alta Montaña
Routes
Summit Book
Last Update
Sign the summit bookMountain
Punta Negra (4127 m.)
Author: Marcelo Camus, Álvaro Vivanco
Posted on 25/09/2010
Updated at 25/09/2010
Introduction
Anybody who approaches the Yeso Dam will certainly be summoned by a group of rugged and dark mountains called "Cordón de los Picos Negros" (Black Peaks Range). The easternmost summit is called Punta Negra. Attention is drawn especially by its spectacular Central Couloir, which from the dam seems almost vertical. To the right, a thin white vertical line may be observed, the "Buracchio-Delgado Couloir", route set up by these two distinguised mountaineers in 1990.
This range was frequently visited in the dawn of Chilean mountaineering. This was recorded by Kurt Klemm in his 1934 book, "El Baqueano del Alpinista Chileno" ("The Chilean Alpinist's Guidebook"): "The ”nimrods” (hunters),
