Licancabur: Mountain of the Atacamenos
1955; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 45; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/212227
ISSN1931-0846
Autores Tópico(s)Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
ResumoLICANCABUR, another of the few spots on the surface of the earth believed to be beyond man's attainment, has been ascended and some of its secrets bared. This conical volcano at the southwest corner of the Chile-Bolivia boundary was climbed by a group of six on November 22, 1953, after a challenging statement regarding its inaccessibility had been made in an article in the Geographical Review two years earlier1. The climbers confirmed all that had been previously recounted on the great and unique difficulties of the ascent. They also reported three unexpected discoveries: the mountain had been not only ascended but occupied in times past, for stone walls and remains of wood were found on the eastern rim; within the crater was an unfrozen lake, probably the highest (5'880 m) liquid body of water on earth; chinchillas, thought to have been exterminated in the region, were seen among the rocks far up the mountainsides.
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