In reply to LakesWinter:
Probably Estancia Una or Pinaya? I think it was the latter we got dropped off at, in July 1999, and kids threw rocks at us (hard) as we walked by.
But we walked down to another small town, Cohoni, drank huge cheap beers in the plaza in the sun, and got a cheap bus back to La Paz.
Yossi's book was also a bit out on the locations/directions for Illampu BC, if coming direct over the high pass from Sorata.
For all its flaws, readers should know that Yossi had a heap more info on those and other peaks that never made it into the book, mostly for reasons of space. He intended to do something with the rest, but never got the chance. I was supposed to meet him at Mongos one night in LaPaz in late July '99 but he got called away, I left the country, then he returned and was killed in an avalanche soon after.
I haven't really looked at the Mesili book, but I know from other things that he can be somewhat unreliable in his accounts and memories, to put it nicely, so I'd take anything he's written with a grain of salt. There's a lot of history there...
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