Parofes is a mountain in Argentina. It has a height of 5,823 metres (19,104 ft). It's located at La Rioja Province, Vinchina department, at the Puna de Atacama. Its name is from the Brazilian mountaineer Paulo Roberto Felipe Schmidt, who died in 2015 due to leukemia.[2] Until 2015 this peak was unclimbed and unnamed. However the mountaineers Maximo Kausch and Pedro Hauck, climbed and named it in 2015.[3]

Parofes
Monte Parofes
Highest point
Elevation5,823 m (19,104 ft).[1]
Prominence580
Parent peakPissis
Coordinates27°53′13.92″S 068°40′47.28″W / 27.8872000°S 68.6798000°W / -27.8872000; -68.6798000
Geography
Parofes is located in Argentina
Parofes
Parofes
Argentina
CountryArgentina
Parent rangePuna de Atacama, Andes
Climbing
First ascent2015 - Maximo Kausch (Argentina) and Pedro Hauck (Brazil)

Elevation edit

Based on the elevation provided by the available Digital elevation models, SRTM filled with ASTER (5823m[4]), TanDEM-X(5864m[5]), Parofes seems to be 5823 meters above sea level.[6][7]

The height of the nearest key col is 5243 meters[8] so its prominence is 580 meters. Parofes is listed as mountain, based on the Dominance system [9] and its dominance is 9.96%. This information was obtained during a research by Suzanne Imber in 2014.[10]

References edit

  1. ^ "Parofes". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  2. ^ "Monte Parofes", Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre (in Portuguese), 2019-05-07, retrieved 2020-04-17
  3. ^ Janeiro, Por GloboEsporte comRio de. "Equipe com três brasileiros escala mais alta montanha virgem dos Andes". globoesporte.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  4. ^ "ASTER GDEM Project". ssl.jspacesystems.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  5. ^ TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X. "Copernicus Space Component Data Access". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  7. ^ "Parofes". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  8. ^ "Andean Mountains - All above 5000m". Andes Specialists. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  9. ^ "Dominance - Page 2". www.8000ers.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  10. ^ ap507. "Academic and adventurer describes the incredible task of climbing and cataloguing one of the most remote regions of the South American Andes mountains — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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