Argentina Adventure Vacations
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Join us for an adventure travel vacation in Argentina on a true treking and climbing expedition into the heart of Argentina’s Andes Mountains and Mount Aconcagua.
On the western edge of the province of Mendoza in Argentina lies Aconcagua Provincial Park, home to Aconcagua, South America’s tallest peak at 6.962m (22.832 feet). "Aconcagua" is Ayamaran for “Stone Sentinel” or Quechuan for “White Sentinel”, this awesome mountain lies about 12 miles (20 km) east of the Chile-Argentinian border.
The first significant exploration of the Central Andes took place in 1817, when General Jose de San Martin crossed the range to liberate Chile from the Spanish. In 1832 Charles Darwin took note of Aconcagua (but made no climbing attempts) after he docked the Beagle in Valparaiso, Chile while en route to the Galapagos Islands. The first serious attempt of summiting Aconcagua was made by the German Paul Gussfeldt, who made it to 6,560m in 1883. It was a Swiss guide named Mathias Zurbriggen who was the first to summit Aconcagua in January 1897 as part of a British expedition led by Edmund Fitzgerald. Traveling via the northwest ridge of the mountain (roughly paralleling today’s “ruta normal”), this expedition approached from the south via the Horcones Valley. A total of five attempts over six weeks were needed before Zurbriggen finally successfully ascended to the summit of Aconcagua.
Create your own route up Mount Aconcagua in Argentina with Bio Bio Expeditions!
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