Baltazar Ushca, ‘last iceman’ of Ecuador’s highest peak, dies at 80
- Posted on October 23, 2024
- By Washington Post
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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.
