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Ojos del Salado is a stratovolcano in the Andes on the border of Argentina-Chile. It is the second highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and the highest in Chile. It is located about 600 km north of Aconcagua (6962 m), the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere. A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ...
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The Cerro Aconcagua is located in Argentina and is the highest mountain in The Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, as well the highest peak outside of Asia and one of the Seven Summits. ...
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Due to its location near the Atacama desert, the mountain has very dry conditions with snow only remaining on the peak during winter. The ascent is mostly a hike except for the final section to the summit which is a difficult scramble that may require ropes. The first ascent was made in 1937 by Jan Alfred Szczepański and Justyn Wojsznis, members of Polish andinist expedition. Atacama The Atacama Desert of Chile is a virtually rainless plateau made up of salt basins (salares), sand, and lava flows, extending from the Andes mountains to the Pacific Ocean. ...
Scrambling on Crib Goch, Snowdonia, Wales Scrambling is a method of ascending rocky faces and ridges. ...
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Volcanic activity There is no doubt that Ojos del Salado is a recently active volcano, but the question of whether it should be considered currently (or "historically") active is arguable. According to the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (link below), the most recent known eruption was around 1300 years ago, with large error bars. However, there is also some evidence for a minor ash emission in 1993, which would definitely qualify the volcano as historically active. The presence of fumaroles high on the mountain and recent-looking lava flows, albeit of uncertain age, also argues in favor of a categorization as "active." By these definitions Ojos del Salado is the highest historically active volcano on earth. If the older date is accepted, the title of "highest historically active volcano" might reside instead with the somewhat lower Llullaillaco volcano, which certainly has erupted in historic times (most recently in 1877) and should still be considered active. Definitions of "active" being themselves controversial and somewhat arbitrary, the point is mainly of trivial interest. Volcano 1. ...
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Llullaillaco is a stratovolcano at the border of Argentina (province of Salta) and Chile. ...
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Elevation There are slight variations in the given elevation. The elevation given on this page is the official Chilean elevation. Recent hand held GPS surveys put it at 6900-6905m. There have been no high precision surveys. Contrary to widely reproduced claims made by Argentine authorities in 1994, which still appear in some maps, publications and websites, Ojos del Salado is about 100m higher that nearby Monte Pissis (6795m). Monte Pissis is an extinct volcano in La Rioja Province, Argentina. ...
In 1989, using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, Francesco Santon from the University of Padua in Italy surveyed both Aconcagua and Ojos del Salado with the help of his colleagues from Padua, the Argentine Institute of Glaciology and Nivology, and Argentine mountaineers. Ojos del Salado was determined to be 6 900 metres (22,637 ft) above the sea level, and Aconcagua was determined to be 6 962 metres (22,841 ft) above sea level, with a possible error of plus/minus five metres.
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