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Andean High-Altitude Climber
About Antonio Martín
At 6,768 meters on Alpamayo’s north face in 2019, Antonio Martín paused, not to catch his breath, but to collect discarded oxygen canisters left by earlier expeditions, strapping them to his pack for descent. That climb wasn’t just a summit bid; it was the launch of the Qhapaq Ñan Clean Ascent Protocol, a community-driven standard now adopted by six Peruvian high-mountain guides’ associations. Born in Huaraz and trained in glaciology at UNMSM, he maps micro-icefall shifts using handheld LiDAR adapted from mining survey tech, data he shares openly with Quechua-speaking rural schools via solar-charged tablets. His approach rejects ‘leave no trace’ as insufficient: he insists on *leaving measurable repair*, whether restoring moraine vegetation with native cushion plants or co-designing biodegradable rope anchors with Andean weavers using alpaca fiber and natural resins. Altitude, for him, isn’t endurance, it’s reciprocity measured in millimeters of regrown lichen and kilos of reclaimed metal.
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- “How did you adapt LiDAR for tracking glacier retreat on Huascarán?”
- “What’s the biggest challenge in getting lodges to adopt your biodegradable anchor system?”
- “Can you walk me through a typical day training youth climbers near Carhuaz?”
- “Why did you choose Alpamayo’s north face for the first Clean Ascent Protocol test?”