Photo: Beatriz Cardenas

The work was raised to the highest summit of the Andean country in 1951, replacing a bust placed in 1933 by a group led by the first mountain guide of Merida, the Domingo Peña recalled.

This time the tour was conducted by eight members of the Mountaineering and Hiking Center Condor, who made the transfer with the support of the cargo Cable Car System of Merida.

Regarding the decline of the bust to the city of Merida, the manager of the System, Jose Gregorio Martinez said that after making the necessary coordination with the Center for Climbing institutional collaboration was provided for the symbolic transfer.

The president of the Center, Carlos Reyes, said the goal of breast reduction is a possible replacement, through a project sponsored by the Foundation for Culture of Mérida State (Fundecem) which raises the creation of a new work .

Similarly advanced the possible creation of mountaineering museum, with support from regional government, where they would place the current bust, among other pieces that constitute the history of mountaineering Merida.

With respect to the return of the bust to its original place Reyes reported that the work will return to the country's highest point on April 19 next year.

Meanwhile Fundecem president, Julio Carrillo, said the governor of the state "has among its priorities the support of the initiative in creating the mountaineering museum and the museum of Merida."

So far there came forward. The names of any artists who could perform the new bust, but Carrillo said that "there are three possible candidates but no final decision has been made" (Cable Car System of Merida Press / Beatriz Cardenas)

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