During the weekend of my stay in Chile for the UNGIWG meeting, we made a day trip to the Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Andes and on the Southern hemisphere. It is located just across the border in Argentina.
Andes near Santiago
Andes
Near Santiago
GPS in Santiago
Stop on the way to Argentina
Mountain pass to Argentina
Aconcagua
Museum at Inca bridge
Inca bridge
Source
The Inca bridge
The freezing pinguins
Mountains
Craig
More snow
Jeroen
Steeve
Craig on the snow
More mountains
And more mountains
Riverbed
Resting on the bridge
Nice and warm in the cold wind
Rock that's about to fall
Pinguins in the snow
On the snow
Ever more mountains
Weather station
Disappearing snow
Walking back
Lake
More lake
Swampy soils
Panel next to the fossils
Fossils 1
Fossil 2
Cool rock outcrop
Lake
Taskgroup x
Taskgroup 6 - clearly gps on tour
What's that on the mountain?
Steeve checking the ski teams
Back towards Santiago
View on the Andes
View on the Andes 2
Beer in Santiago
