He gave the neigh­bour­ing peak the name „Monte Sella“ (in hon­our of an italian states­man), bad weather pre­ven­ted an ascent of the moun­tain. His com­re­hens­ive travel reports, all together with his pho­to­graphs rep­res­ent an excit­ing doc­u­ment­a­tion of the people and the land­scape of Tierra del Fuego in those days.

In 1928 and 1929 the Ger­man avi­ation pion­eer Gun­ther Plüschow and his flight engin­eer Ernst Dreblow flew for the fist time across the Cor­dillera Dar­win and Monte Buck­land. The first aer­ial pho­to­graphs of this region have been made and brought to europe; the book „Sil­berkondor über Feuer­land“ [2] by Plüschow and his movie became best sellers at his time.

In 1956 and by the age of 74 de Agostini led again an exped­i­tion to Monte Sarmi­ento. On the 7^th of March the team Clem­ente Maf­fei and Carlo Mauri suc­ceeded to climb the sum­mit via the south west ridge [3]. Due to extreme dif­fi­cult ice con­di­tions the moun­tain was not climbed again after­wards. Only the slidly smal­ler west peak has seen three lucky ascents until now [4,5,6].

Dur­ing the exped­i­tion in 1956 de Agostini was facin­ated by the sum­mit of Monte Buck­land when he saw him from the other side of the fjord and com­pared him due to the sim­il­ar­it­ies with Torre Muztagh, a legendary, and at that time unscaled but assidu­ously cour­ted moun­tain in the Him­alayas [7].

Again it was Carlo Mauri who organ­ised a Ragni di Lecco-​Expedition to climb Monte Buck­land in 1966. All 6 team mem­bers -Mauri, Fer­rari, Allipi, Giudici, Machetto and Pirovano- reached the sum­mit on Feb­ru­ary 6^th. The route they took led them from Bahía Encanto and over the west slope of the moun­tain into a nar­row gorge onto a gla­cier and fur­ther into the south west face and up to the sum­mit [8]. The team was almost stopped by a vast crevice but Fer­rari dis­covered a small over­hang, lead­ing to the face to the sum­mit. The last 70 meters they had to climb a steep tube in the ice up to a nar­row ridge which they fol­lowed towards the South, lead­ing to the sum­mit [9].

Since the first ascent Monte Buck­land and his sur­round­ings are in a state of iner­tia. There have been a few activ­it­ies over the fol­low­ing dec­ades until now, but either they have not been ser­i­ously focused on the sum­mit or the ascent was thwarted by bad weather [10].