Word: huascaran
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...epicenter of last week's earthquake was located in the Pacific 42 miles west of Chimbote. But most deaths were caused by a huayco that emanated from the northern peak of the twin-pronged Huascaran in a spur of the Andes called the Cordillera Blanca, the highest mountain range in the Western Hemisphere. Apparently, a huge chunk of the mountain fell into chill Lake Yangwnuco and sent an immense slide thundering toward Yungay...
...84th birthday was slim, birdlike Annie Smith Peck, who closed her mountain-climbing career two years ago by tramping up Mount Madison. It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because "the fool, he didn't put his foot on them...
Miss Annie Smith Peck, long-famed mountain climber who will be 82 next month, plodded to the summit of Mount Crescent (3,280 ft.) near Gorham, N. H. and down again. Her most conspicuous exploit occurred 24 years ago when she climbed Mount Huascaran (21,812 ft.) in the Peruvian Andes. In her honor a peak of the mountain was named Cumbre Ana Peck...
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