Routes (1)
- Standard Route — Class 6 (Io environment; spacecraft & pressure suit required)
The standard ascent of this tectonic mountain (tilted block) gains roughly 34,400 ft of vertical relief. There are no technical cruxes — the entire difficulty is logistics, cold, and a hard vacuum (or near-vacuum).
Recorded ascents: 0 — be the first.
Trip Reports (0)
No trip reports yet. No human or robot has stood on this summit. Be the first to summit and post one!
Map
South-polar region of Io, east of Creidne Patera — 48.89° S, 338.77° W.
NASA – Io
Conditions — Euboea Montes
No breathable air, sulfur-dioxide frost, 300 km-high volcanic plumes, and a lethal bath of Jovian radiation. Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system.
Summit: 34,400 ft (~10.5 km above the plains).
