Aconcagua
Mountain
The highest mountain in the world outside Asia.
Aconcagua rises 6,961 metres in the Andes of Argentina, close to the border with Chile. It is the highest point of the Americas and of the whole southern half of the world.
You need no ropes for the usual route, but it is no easy walk: the air is thin, it can be thirty degrees below zero and the wind is fierce. Many who try have to turn back.
- high
- 6,961 m
- first climbed
- 1897
- a climb takes, roughly
- 3 weeks
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The Andes, the range it belongs to, is the longest chain of mountains on land.
- 2
The Incas climbed very high here: the mummy of an Inca boy was found at 5,300 metres.
- 3
Climbers call the icy wind near the top the white wind.
Question 1 of 2
In which mountain range is Aconcagua?
- Atacama DesertThe driest desert in the world outside the poles, between the Andes and the ocean.
- Salar de UyuniThe largest salt flat in the world, and after rain the largest mirror.
- Iguazu FallsHundreds of waterfalls side by side in the jungle.
- Lake TiticacaA lake as big as a small sea, high in the Andes.
It is in Argentina.
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