Monte San Valentin

Monday, January 14, 2013

Monte San Valentin

Monte San Valentin (Monte San Clemente)(4,058 m (13,314 ft)) is the highest mountain in Chilean Patagonia and the highest mountain south of 37°S outside Antarctica. It stands at the north end of the North Patagonian Icefield. Monte San Valentin can be climbed from Lago Leones, to the south east, or from Laguna San Rafael, to the west. The ascent is long and is particularly subject to bad weather. The accident and fatality rate is high.
The glacier covered Mount San Valentín is the highest in the region (about 3,900 meters), and to take the form of plain, is ideal for studying climate changes (paleoclimatology) by drilling its ice, becoming a major destination for scientific expeditions.