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A thousand feet below Aconcagua’s summit, I discovered a new dimension to Mother Earth’s ability to express outrage. The wind blasted far harder here than anywhere below. Or in Colorado. Or in our collective experience. Speech was impossible as we blinked a tear-blurred vision through our goggles. I held up two parallel mittens to indicate two hundred miles per hour.
– Gerry Roach - from Ten Tadasanas
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South America’s Aconcagua, 22,834 feet |
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Aconcagua as seen from the trailhead for the standard route
at the bottom of the Horcones Valley The south face rises almost 14,000 feet above the camera The main summit is on the right Photo by Gerry Roach |
Aconcagua, sometimes called the Stone Sentinel, has many accolades. It is the highest peak in Argentina, the Andes, South America, the southern hemisphere and the world outside of central Asia.