abstract:Cerro Torre is one of the mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. It is located in a region which is disputed between Argentina and Chile,From Rodrigo Jordan, "Cerro Torre", in World Mountaineering, Audrey Salkeld, editor, Bulfinch Press, ISBN 0-8212-2502-2, p.
Five hours later we were climbing snow slopes to the base of Cerro Standhardt (just under 9, 000 feet tall), the shortest of three peaks rising in increasing height and elegance on the CerroTorre massif.