Alpamayo
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Alpamayo (possibly from Quechua allpa earth, mayu river, "earth river") or Shuyturaju (possibly from Ancash Quechua huytu, shuytu oblong, slim and long, Quechua rahu snow, ice, mountain covered in snow) is one of the most conspicuous peaks in the Cordillera Blanca of the Peruvian Andes. Alpamayo Creek originates northwest of it.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Alpamayo
- Mountain.image
- Alpamayo 12.jpg
- Mountain.map
- Peru
- Mountain.map_caption
- Peru
- Mountain.location
- Ancash, Peru
- Mountain.label_position
- top
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 5947
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 524
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Quitaraju
- Mountain.language
- Quechua
- Mountain.range
- Cordillera Blanca
- Mountain.first_ascent
- June 20, 1957, by Günter Hauser, Berhard Huhn and Horst Wiedmann.
- Mountain.easiest_route
- Difficult snow/ice climb on SW face
- Mountain.map_size
- 220
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Climbing history and routes
- References
- External links
Alpamayo (possibly from Quechua allpa earth, mayu river, "earth river") or Shuyturaju (possibly from Ancash Quechua huytu, shuytu oblong, slim and long, Quechua rahu snow, ice, mountain covered in snow) is one of the most conspicuous peaks in the Cordillera Blanca of the Peruvian Andes. Alpamayo Creek originates northwest of it.
The Alpamayo lies next to the slightly higher Quitaraju.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alpamayo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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