Cerro Murallón is a glacier

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of the

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, in

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, located on the eastern edge of the

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, southwest of Lake Viedma, at the border between

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and

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. On the Argentine side, the hill has been part of the

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since 1937, in the Lago Argentino Department in the Santa Cruz Province, which was declared a

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by UNESCO in

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. On the Chilean side, it has been part of the

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, since

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, in the commune of

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in the Última Esperanza Province in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region. According to some sources its height is 2656 meters above sea level, and according to others it is 2831 meters above sea level.

Toponymy

Cerro Murallón is named for its immense granite wall it presents. Cerro Murallón was photographed for the first time by the Salesian missionary Alberto María de Agostini in 1949, and its first ascent was made by Eduardo García, Cedomir Marangunic, Eric Shipton and Jack Ewer on January 24, 1961 on its west face. The first climb to the northeast wall was made in 1984 by the Italians Carlo Alde, Casimiro Ferrari and Paolo Vitali.

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