Overview
- Cristo Redentor is back to normal operations for all vehicles after coordinators agreed conditions were safe and customs resumed 24-hour service.
- The crossing had been shut as a preventive step due to snow and instability on the Chilean side, with Route 7 cut at Uspallata and the tunnel closed to avoid strandings.
- Paso Pehuenche remains under a preventive closure that began when weather made high-mountain travel unsafe, with reopening dependent on improved conditions.
- Argentina’s National Weather Service issued orange and yellow alerts for the Mendoza cordillera, forecasting 10 to 30 centimeters of snow in different sectors.
- Authorities urge travelers to delay plans and follow official pass updates because rapid shifts in high-Andes weather can quickly disrupt freight and passenger movement.