Kunturiri, Mountain summit in the Cordillera Real, Pucarani Municipality, Bolivia.
Cabeza de Cóndor reaches 5,648 meters and forms a mountain massif with three distinct peaks in the La Paz Department. The system consists of a main summit, Ala Izquierda, and Ala Norte, creating a connected high-altitude formation.
A first ascent in 1926 by Germán Stoller and Helmut Fritz is recorded but unconfirmed. The first confirmed ascent was made in April 1940 by the German climber Wilfrid Kühm via the southwest ridge, now the normal route. In 1973 Angelo Gelmi, José Ferrari and Alain Mesili climbed the direct south face, and in 1996 E. Monasterios and J. Ogden ascended the direct southeast face.
The name Condoriri is the Spanish spelling of the Aymara word kunturi, meaning condor. The central group of three peaks is read as a condor with wings spread: the main summit is the head, Cabeza de Cóndor, flanked by Ala Izquierda (5,532 m) and Ala Derecha (5,482 m). The Spanish names of the peaks do not appear on Bolivian IGM maps.
The massif lies in Los Andes Province, Pukarani Municipality, southeast of Chachakumani and northwest of Huayna Potosí. The normal route follows the southwest ridge, the line Wilfrid Kühm took in 1940. The lakes Ch'iyar Quta and Juri Quta sit south of the massif, and the peaks' Spanish names do not appear on Bolivian IGM maps.
The massif's peaks carry Spanish names that do not appear on Bolivian IGM maps, and the peak south of the head is called Kuchillu Khunu, Aymara for "knife snow". The first ascent of 1926 by Germán Stoller and Helmut Fritz was never confirmed; Wilfrid Kühm's solo climb in April 1940, via the southwest ridge now treated as the normal route, is the first confirmed one.
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