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Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week


Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week - The Economist

And it was from a village nearby, usually on Thursdays and Fridays, that Baltazar Ushca would set out from his house to climb it too. In the ...

Baltazar Ushca, Who Kept Andean Ice Harvesting Alive, Dies at 80

He trekked up Ecuador's tallest mountain twice a week for six decades to hack ice off a glacier with a pickax. He is believed to have been ...

Ecuador's Last Mountain Iceman Dies At 80 | Barron's

Ecuador's last mountain ice harvester, Baltazar Ushca, who spent ... Twice a week he climbed to the 5,200-meter mark on Chimborazo to ...

Baltazar Ushca, 'last iceman' of Ecuador's highest peak, dies at 80

He was a last link to a centuries-old tradition of harvesting ice from a glacier on Chimborazo, a snow-capped dormant volcano in the Andes.

ARTICLE: The Last Ice Man of Chimborazo - UKClimbing

Baltazar Ushca is known as 'The Last Iceman', and now in his 70s he started climbing Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador's highest peak at only 15 years ...

Death of Baltazar Ushca, the last iconic Chimborazo iceman of ...

An inspiring story of Chimborazo's last ice-hunter, who spent 67 years climbing the volcano to harvest the ice and sell it on the markets of Riobamba.

Baltazar Ushca obituary: One of the last ice harvesters - The Times

For more than 60 years Baltazar Ushca climbed the slopes of Mount Chimborazo, the tallest mountain in Ecuador, to harvest the ice that covers ...

The Story - The Last Ice Merchant

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 ...

The Last Ice Merchant of Ecuador | By DW Stories - Facebook

Twice a week, 74-year-old Baltazar Ushca climbs the 6300 m high volcano Chimborazo to pick ice. He is the last ice merchant in the Andes of ...

Ecuador's last mountain iceman dies at 80 - RFI

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

Documentary: The Last Ice merchant of Chimborazo in Ecuador

A man who at that time was 67 years old and no more than 1.5 meters tall, traveling twice a week, for more than 50 years, the slopes of ...

Baltazar Ushca, Who Kept Andean Ice Harvesting Alive, Dies at 80

For 60 years, Baltazar Ushca worked a rare but rigorous trade: ice merchant. Once or twice a week, he climbed snow-capped Mount Chimborazo, ...

Reporter - The Last Ice Merchant of Chimborazo – DW – 01/13/2018

Every week Baltazar Ushca hikes up Mount Chimborazo - at 6300 meters, Ecuador's tallest mountain. The 74-year-old harvests glacial ice ...

The iceman of Ecuador cometh no more, ending 60-year tradition

At least once a week for more than 60 years, Baltazar Ushca trekked ... Baltasar Ushca, the last ice merchant of Chimborazo, and his ...

Valuing an Ancient Vocation | Global Oneness Project

In years past, Baltazar was one of forty ice collectors in the region. At 67-years-old, he continues to hike for approximately 5 hours twice a week. The ...

Ecuador's last mountain iceman dies at 80

Twice a week he climbed to the 5,200-meter mark on Chimborazo to extract huge blocks of ice weighing up to 20 kilograms with a pick and shovel.

The last ice gatherer of Ecuador - The Globe and Mail

Mr. Ushca climbs Chimborazo twice a week. On Thursdays and Fridays, he brings down two 70 lbs. blocks of ice to sell to Rosita Almachi, who owns ...

The Curtain Falls on an Ancient Vocation - The Atlantic

The summit of Mount Chimborazo ... For more than half a century, Baltazar Ushca has hiked up the mountain's slopes at least twice a week to ...

The Last Ice Merchant - Yader Guzman

... Baltazar Ushca, who held the title for over a decade. Now close to 80 ... Ushca climbs Chimborazo twice a week. On Thursdays and Fridays, he brings ...

The last of a dying breed of mountain-climbing ice men

From the New York Times: "For 60 years, Baltazar Ushca worked a rare but rigorous trade: ice merchant. Once or twice a week, he climbed snow- ...