Mount Darwin (the Andes)

See also: Darwin

The mount Darwin is more the high summit of the Ground of Fire (2488 meters). Located at the north of the Channel Beagle, it belongs to the Andes cordillera (South America). It is made of crystalline Schiste and with the very large glaciers its southern slopes cover.

He was baptized during the Voyage of the Beagle by the captain of HMS '' Beagle '', Robert FitzRoy, in the honor of the 25e birthday of Charles Darwin, on February 12th, 1834. One year before, FitzRoy had named the stretch of water in the south-west of the mountain Canal of Darwin in order to pay homage to the action and the courage of Darwin at the time of the rescue of the boats of the ship after large waves had been produced by the fall of a great mass of ice in water.

It is preferable it to climb between at the end of December and March. The first rise was carried out in 1961 by Eric Shipton, E. Garcia, F. Vivanco and C. Marangunic.

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Photographs of the Mount Darwin

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