Monte Buckland, Mountain summit in Alberto de Agostini National Park, Chile
Monte Buckland is a 1,746-metre peak on a narrow peninsula between Agostini Fjord and Fitton Bay, an eastward projection of the Gabriel Channel separating Dawson Island from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, inside Alberto de Agostini National Park. Phillip Parker King described it as a tall obelisk-like hill ending in a sharp needlepoint above a snow-covered chaotic mass, with a large glacier formed on its north-eastern leeward side. The mounts Sella, Aosta and Giordano lie to its southeast.
Monte Buckland was first climbed in 1966, according to the Spanish-language record of the peak; the identity of that first party is not given there. The next recorded ascent came only in 2012, when a German expedition reached the summit after several decades without one. Phillip Parker King had described the mountain from the Gabriel Channel during his survey of the area.
Phillip Parker King, surveying the Gabriel Channel in the 1820s, described Mount Buckland as a tall obelisk-like hill ending in a sharp needlepoint above perpetual snow. The German expedition that climbed it in 2012 named its route after the mountain's north-eastern glacier, fed by that snow.
Climbing here requires specialized mountaineering gear and favorable weather conditions most available during the southern summer months. Visitors should prepare for rapidly changing conditions and steep, technically demanding routes on the ascent.
Phillip Parker King, surveying the Gabriel Channel, described Mount Buckland as a tall obelisk-like hill ending in a sharp needlepoint, lifting above a chaotic mass of reliquiae diluvianae covered in perpetual snow; meltwater feeds a large glacier on the north-eastern side.
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