Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the American continent at six,960.8 m (22,837.3 ft). It is situated in the Andes Mountain Variety, in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, and lies 112 kilometres (70 mi) west by north of its capital, the city of Mendoza. The summit is also situated about 5 kilometres from San Juan Province and 15 kilometres from the international border with Chile. Aconcagua is the highest peak in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres. It is one particular of the Seven Summits. The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of every of the seven continents. Summiting all of them is regarded as a mountaineering challenge.
Aconcagua is also called as the princess of Andes, the world’s longest mountain variety. The Andes, starting in northern South America and ending at the continent’s tip, stretch more than four,300 miles (7,000 kilometers) in a narrow band along the west edge of South America. The Andes pass by means of seven nations–Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. Aconcagua is not a volcano. The mountain was formed by the collision of the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate in the course of the fairly recent Andean orogeny or period of mountain developing. The Nazca Plate, the ocean crust to the west, is getting subducted or pushed beneath the South American Plate, forming the extended chain of the Andes.
The Aconcagua Provincial Park is a protected organic location, which was designed in the 1983 in an work to preserve its cultural treasures (flora, fauna and crucial archeological websites). It is house to several glaciers. Aconcagua Park is bordered in the west and southwest by the lower Valley of the Horcones, and by the Valle de las Vacas to the east and north. The water resources of the Park include a quantity of glaciers that cover an approximate area of 32 square kilometers, and amongst them you can discover the Glacier de los Polacos (700 ha), las Vacas (2000 ha), Güssfeldt (1000 ha), and the lower and upper Horcones.
Lieutenant Nicolás Plantamura, from the Argentine Army, reached Aconcagua, the princess of Andes on March eight, 1934, following the Typical Route in the firm of two Italian climbers, P. Ceresa, P. Ghigliole, R. Chabod and the Chilean muleteer Mariano Pastén. First female ascent to Mt Aconcagua was Achieved by the French Adriana Bance, on March 7, 1940, with each other with the German Jorge Hyperlink and the members of the Mendoza Mountain Climbing Club: Pablo Franke, P. Etura, D. López and J. Semper. First winter ascent to Mt. Aconcagua was performed on September 11 to 15, 1953 by the Argentines E. Huerta, H. Vasalla and F. A. Godoy via the Regular Route.
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