Abstract
Cerro Tolonchar, an isolated mountain peak rising 4475 m in the Atacama region of north-eastern Chile, is the most remote of five sites considered as locations for a huge new astronomical facility known as the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Reaching the closest settlement involves a five-hour drive on an unpaved road across a dried-up and desolate lake. That gets you to the village of Socaire (population about 500) high up in the Andes across the border from Argentina. But you are still hours away from the peak itself.
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