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Aconcagua

[ ah-kawng-kah-gwah ]

noun

  1. a mountain in W Argentina, in the Andes: the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere. 22,834 feet (6,960 meters).


Aconcagua

/ Dzˈ첹ɣɲ /

noun

  1. a mountain in W Argentina: the highest peak in the Andes and in the W Hemisphere. Height: 6960 m (22 835 ft)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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High on Mount Aconcagua, the Western Hemisphere’s highest mountain, the shrinking Polish Glacier spits out what it once devoured — in this case, a 50-year-old Nikomat 35 mm camera.

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After climbing to Africa’s highest point on Kilimanjaro, he reached two of the other so-called Seven Summits: North America’s Denali and South America’s Aconcagua.

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Her family spent summers in Concón, where the Aconcagua River feeds into the Pacific, leaving rich deposits of driftwood, shells and pebbles on shore.

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Besides, it was never about the summits — not Everest or Vinson Massif or Denali or Aconcagua or Kosciuszko or Elbrus or Kilimanjaro, either.

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It rises to 20,310 feet and is the third most prominent peak on Earth after Mount Everest and Aconcagua.

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