South Face of Aconcagua, Argentina 15th June 2007

2 Responses to “South Face of Aconcagua, Argentina”

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Polly:

wow that is amazing!!

June 15th, 2007 at 05:04
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Jeff Ambrose:

Beautiful, such moody weather.

June 15th, 2007 at 21:24

CameraCanon EOS 5D
Focal Length50 mm
Aperturef/7.1
Exposure1/2000 sec
ISO100
Date Taken17 Jan 2007, 17:32

The story behind "South Face of Aconcagua, Argentina"

Aconcagua is not only the highest mountain of South America, in fact it is the highest outside of Asia.

Still the 6962m/22,841ft high summit can be reached using a rough but non-technical hiking path. This is the other side of the mountain, the South Face, almost 3km/10k ft of near vertical ice and rock, with an age old glacier at its feet. Serious climbing…

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