Word: carnicero
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...purpose of the trip is to practice for the spring and summer excursions, such as last summer's three member expedition to the Selkirk Range in British Columbia. A forthcoming Saturday Evening Post story will describe the highlight of last summer, the six man climb of Peru's "unconquerable Carnicero...
...first of July, the students hope to set up base camp at the snout of a Carnicero glacier. Then comes the long climb up the glacier, over sun pockets and crevasses, to "col camp" in a saddle of the mountain...
Their goal is Carnicero, the highest mountain in the Americas that no one has over climbed. Its razor-sharp, windswept ice ridges have forced back the three climbing parties that tried to scale...
Several miles from Chiquian is Carnicero, Spanish for "The Butcher." The students will hire a 30-mule team to lug their ton of equipment to base camp...
From then on, Carnicero is more like a butcher's cleaver than a butcher. Wind sweeping up the sides of the mountain has stropped the thin icy sides into knifesharp razors...