The Aguja Saint Exupery is a

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spear ('aguja') located near the

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. The mountain is named in memory of

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, the

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and

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who was director of the

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airline and pioneered postal flights in the Patagonia region between 1929 and 1931. The Aguja Saint Exupery is not as impressive as its taller neighbors Cerro Chaltén and the striking

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, but due to the length of its

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s and the

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conditions of the southern

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, it shares the same big wall reputation as most Patagonian peaks. The Aguja Saint Exupery was first climbed on February 23, 1968, by Silvia Metzeltin, Gino Buscaini, Lino Condot, Walter Romano & Silvano Sinigoi, an Italian team of climbers who opened an route on its East Pillar.

Dead mountaineers

* Bryn Carlyle Norman, a Canadian in January 2012.

References

*Kearney, Alan, 1993. ''Mountaineering in Patagonia''. Seattle USA: Cloudcap.

External links

Aguja Saint Exupery at SummitPost Climbing Site
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