CERRO FALSO ALTAR 4500m

Falso Altar with the two gully routes.

• Location: Valle Yerba Loca, Reserva Nacional Yerba Loca
• Access: 6h from Villa Paulina
• Characteristics: Ice and rock up to 1000m

One route on its south face goes through the couloirs and is reported to be a fine ice climb of considerable difficulty. 

 

	In 2002 there was an attempt by E. Mondragón & friends in the right part of the face. They encountered good ice up to 75° in the lower part, but the party got stopped by a vertical band of rotten rock  Left: below first pitch
Starting the waterfall	Below the face.