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Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week


Climbing the world's other highest mountain – no sherpas required

Many come to those glaciers specifically to meet Baltazar Ushca, the last hielero (ice merchant) of Chimborazo. Generations of Indigenous ...

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Baltar Ushca, the last ice maker of Chimborazo, prepares once again to climb Chimborazo, as he has done for more than 50 years twice a week ...

Outside at Tribeca: The Last Ice Merchant of Chimborazo

For the past five decades, 68-year-old Baltazar Ushca has made a living by harvesting glacial ice from the tallest mountain in Ecuador.

The Last Ice Merchant (El Último Hielero) - The Documentary Network

Twice a week for over half a century, Baltazar Ushca has hiked up the slopes of Mount Chimborazo, the tallest mountain in Ecuador, to ...

The Last Ice Merchant of Ecuador - The New York Times

For over half a century, Baltazar Ushca has hiked up the slopes of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador's tallest mountain, to harvest the glacial ice ...

Baltazar Ushca - Honorary Unsubscribe

But what can be done in a subtropical place like Ecuador? Enter a hielero — iceman — like Ushca. Since he was 15 years old, Ushca has climbed Chimborazo, the ...

The ice merchant of Chimborazo | DW Documentary - YouTube

... week Balthazar Ushca hikes for several hours up its slopes to harvest glacial ice, which he then sells at the market in the nearby city of ...

What do you do when your work becomes obsolete? - Gizmodo

Twice a week for over half a century, Baltazar Ushca has hiked up the slopes of Mount Chimborazo, the tallest mountain in Ecuador, to harvest glacial ice ...

Meet Baltazar, the Last Ice Merchant of Ecuador - Oddity Central

68-year-old Baltazar Ushca hikes five hours every week to chop ice from Ecuador's tallest mountain.

UKC Forums - ARTICLE: The Last Ice Man of Chimborazo

Alex Outhwaite tells the story of Baltazar Uscha, an indigenous Ecuadorian man whose lifelong career of collecting ice from the country's ...

Every day for nearly 60 years, Baltazar Ushca Tenesaca ... - Facebook

Every day for nearly 60 years, Baltazar Ushca Tenesaca has climbed Ecuador's tallest mountain to harvest glacial ice. There used to be 40 or ...

Der Eismann by Andrés Yépez - Visura

For more than sixty years, Baltazar Ushca has walked up to ice mines of Chimborazo volcano, the highest mountain in Ecuador, to cut ice out of the glacier ...

Chimborazo Province by Tomas Derner - Tdernux Photography

Before we get to our actual ascend I have to mention this charismatic person. His name is Baltazar Ushca (77) and he is the last Ice Merchant in ...

The Last Ice Merchant by Yader Guzman - Visura

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, at an elevation of 5,800 meters above sea level, Juan Ushca gets to work chopping away at an ancient glacier atop Mount Chimborazo ...

What's about to hit the world economy? - The Economist

... -loads of ice. Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week · Subscribe · Economist Enterprise · Reuse our content · Help and contact us. Keep ...

Chimborazo Summit PEAK Adventure Climb

Are you ready for the mother of all PEAKS IN ECUADOR? The ultimate challenge – climb the highest mountain in Ecuador! For many years the Chimborazo (6310m) ...

Ecuador Travel Blog - Ecuador Eco Adventure

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Baltazar Ushca, widely known as “the Last Iceman of Chimborazo”, who departed this world on October 11, ...

Ecuador's last mountain iceman dies at 80 | National News

Ecuador's last mountain ice harvester, Baltazar Ushca, who spent over half a century climbing the country's highest summit to extract ice at the top, died ...

Ecuador's last mountain iceman dies at 80 - Barron News-Shield

Ecuador's last mountain ice harvester, Baltazar Ushca, who spent over half a century climbing the country's highest summit to extract ice at ...

Climbing the world's other highest mountain – no sherpas require

... climbed Chimborazo in 1802. Von Humboldt ... two months you'd need to climb Everest. ... Baltazar Ushca, the last hielero (ice merchant) of ...