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The mountain was created by the subduction of the The Polish Glacier Traverse route, also known as the
Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate during Falso de los Polacos route, crosses through the Vacas
the geologically recent Andean orogeny; but it is not valley, ascends to the base of the Polish Glacier, then tra-
a volcano.[4] The origin of the name is contested; it is verses across to the normal route for the nal ascent to
either from the Mapuche Aconca-Hue, which refers to the summit. The third most popular route is by the Polish
the Aconcagua River and means comes from the other Glacier itself.
side, the Quechua Ackon Cahuak, meaning "'Sentinel No hard records are kept about Aconcagua ascents, but
of Stone, or Quechua Anco Cahuac, White Sentinel[5] the Provincial Park reports a success rate of about 60%
or the Aymara Janq'u Q'awa, White Ravine, White of climbers who attempt the mountain. About 75%
Brook.[6] of climbers are foreigners and 25% are Argentinean.
Among foreigners, the United States leads in number of
climbers, followed by Germany and the UK. About 54%
of climbers ascend the Normal Route, 43% up the Polish
1 Climbing Glacier Route, and the remaining 3% on other routes.[8]
The routes to the peak from the south and south-west
In mountaineering terms, Aconcagua is technically an ridges are more demanding, and the south face climb is
easy mountain if approached from the north, via the considered very dicult.
normal route. Aconcagua is arguably the highest non-
technical mountain in the world, since the northern route The camp sites on the normal route are listed below (al-
does not absolutely require ropes, axes, and pins. Al- titudes are approximate).
though the eects of altitude are severe (atmospheric
pressure is 40% of sea-level at the summit), the use of Puente del Inca, 2,740 m (8,990 ft): A small village
supplemental oxygen is not common. Altitude sickness on the main road, with facilities including a lodge.
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2 1 CLIMBING
minutes.[17] 4 Notes
The record was broken less than two months later by
Ecuadorian-Swiss Karl Eglo, in a time of 11 hours 52 [1] Informe cientco que estudia el Aconcagua, el Coloso
de Amrica mide 6960,8 metros [Scientic Report on
minutes, nearly an hour faster than Kilian Jornet.[18]
Aconcagua, the Colossus of America measures 6960,8m]
(in Spanish). Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. 2012. Re-
trieved September 3, 2012.
2 Popular culture [2] There is no denitive proof that the ancient Incas actually
climbed to the summit of the White Sentinel [Aconcagua],
but there is considerable evidence that they did climb very
high on the mountain. Signs of Inca ascents have been
found on summits throughout the Andes, thus far the high-
est atop Llullaillaco, a 6,721-metre (22,051 ft) mountain
astride the Chilean-Argentine border in the Atacama re-
gion. On Aconcagua, the skeleton of a guanaco was found
in 1947 along the ridge connecting the North Summit with
the South Summit. It seems doubtful that a guanaco would
climb that high on the mountain on its own. Furthermore,
an Inca mummy has been found at 5400 m on the south
west ridge of Aconcagua, near Cerro Piramidal R. J.
Secor, Aconcagua: A Climbing Guide, The Mountaineers,
1994, ISBN 0-89886-406-2, p. 13.
5 External links
Aconcagua in Andeshandbook
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