Monte San Lorenzo, also known as Monte Cochrane, is a mountain on the border between Argentina and Chile in Patagonia, reaching a height of .World Wildlife Fund; C.Michael Hogan. 2010
''Magellanic subpolar forests''. Encyclopedia of Earth, National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC
/ref> The Chilean name of Cochrane comes from the nearby town of

Cochrane Cochrane may refer to: Places Australia *Cochrane railway station, Sydney, a railway station on the closed Ropes Creek railway line Canada * Cochrane, Alberta * Cochrane Lake, Alberta * Cochrane District, Ontario ** Cochrane, Ontario, a town wit ...

where climbers often approach the mountain. The peak was first climbed by

Alberto María de Agostini Father Alberto Maria de Agostini (2 November 1883 – 25 December 1960) born in Pollone, Piedmont was an Italian missionary of the Salesians of Don Bosco order as well as a passionate mountaineer, explorer, geographer, ethnographer, photographer ...

in 1943. The mountain is covered by three large

glaciers A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as ...

(two in Argentina and one in Chile). The Argentine glaciers show clear evidence of retreat.

Incident

The peak gained further notoriety in 2014 when professional ski-mountaineers

JP Auclair Jean-Philippe Auclair (August 22, 1977 – September 29, 2014) was a Canadian freeskiier. He was born in Sainte-Foy, Quebec. JP helped Salomon launch the 1080 ski in 1998 and in 2002, along with fellow freeskier Tanner Hall founded Armada s ...

and

Andreas Fransson Andreas Fransson (15 April 1983 – 29 September 2014) was a Swedish extreme skier perhaps best known for his having made descents of the hitherto un-skied specific faces of mountains. Among his inaugural descents was that of the south face of Dena ...

perished on its slopes in a large avalanche.

Gallery

Image:Monte San Lorenzo.jpg, NASA image of San Lorenzo as seen from the south

References

Mountains of Aysén Region Landforms of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina Mountains of Argentina Argentina–Chile border International mountains of South America Three-thousanders of the Andes {{Aysén-geo-stub

Incident

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See also

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