If there is a confusing Peak, undoubtedly this is it. The people of Cocoyo call it "Tata Ankho", "Piedra Lisa" or ”Punta Badile". Hans Ertl and his expedition reached a point just below the summit (the col of the wall made between Emma Maria and Pico "PK 24"). Hans told me that the Government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro financed this expedition, as he was very impressed by the enormous, smooth slabs that make up most of the northeastern face. The other, Southeastern wall, higher but with lesser technical difficulty, was climbed in two days in September 1983 by the author and Chris Huntson.
Pico P.K. 24- the name belongs to our authorship. Why PK 24 for Peak 24? Because of the date we climbed it. Since then, very few have repeated the climb.
In 1998 German climbers, Robert Rauch, Thomas Lehmpfuhl and Florian Schoffel, abseiled down the wall of smooth slabs and retrobolted the hardest route of the region, called "Punta Badile" and located on the northern ridge of the mountainous vertebra, beginning as the "Pico Schulze". The entire eastern chain shows great climbing potential.
