Nevado Huascarán, Peru

Highest Summit	Pico Sur
Subpeaks	Nevado Huascarán-Pico Norte (6664 m/21,864 ft)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	9° 7' 16'' S, 77° 36' 17'' W -9.120981, -77.604674 (Dec Deg) 213711 E 8990740 N, Zone 18 (UTM)
Country	Peru (Highest Point)
State/Province	Ancash (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Nevado Huascarán":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Huascar├ín Sur at SummitPost.org      Weather for Huascaran at Mountain-Forecast.com Lists that contain Nevado Huascarán:      Andes 6000-meter Peaks (Rank #4)      World Country High Points (Rank #12)      World Peaks with 1000 km of Isolation (Rank #24)      South America Country High Points (Rank #3)      World Drainage Basin High Points over 5000 m high (Rank #9)      Country High Points of the Americas (Rank #3)      South America Range3 High Points (Rank #3)      1500-meter Prominence Peak with Ascents (Rank #218)      UN Member State High Points (Rank #12)      South America UN Member High Points (Rank #3)      Cordillera Blanca 5500 meter Peaks (Rank #1)      Peru Region High Points (Rank #1)      World Peaks with 300 km of Isolation (Rank #24)      South America Peaks with 200 km of Isolation (Rank #4)      Ultras of South America (Rank #14)      Ultras of Ecuador and Peru (Rank #2) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        The Andes: A Guide for Climbers (Biggar) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      1998-06-25 by Jake Norton (Unsuccessful)      1999-06-20 by Jake Norton (Unsuccessful)      2011-07-21 by Lyngve Skrede      2015 07 by Tim Bogdanov View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (24 total) Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Nevado Huascarán      Elevation Ladder from Nevado Huascarán      Prominence Ladder from Nevado Huascarán

The icy majesty of Huascaran, highest peak in Peru (2010-11-06). Photo by Jeff Malik. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 2798 m/9180 ft   Optimistic Prominence: 2798 m/9180 ft   Line Parent: Ojos del Salado   Key Col: 3970 m/13,025 ft
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 2207.48 km/1371.67 mi    Isolation Limit Point: -27.106559, -68.54245 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Ojos del Salado  (SSE)
Ranges	Continent: South America Range2: Andes Range3: Peruvian Andes (Highest Point) Range4: Cordillera Occidental (Peru) (Highest Point) Range5: Cordillera Blanca (Highest Point) Range6: Huascaran Massif (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Santa (HP) Pacific Ocean
Ownership	Land: Parque nacional Huascarán
First Ascent	1932 Borchers Hein Hoerlin Schneider
Data Source	1:100,000 Topographic Survey Map
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