Cerro Aconcagua (Mt. Aconcagua), located in the Argentinean Andes in South America, is one of the "Seven Summits" of the world's continents and is the highest peak outside of Asia.
Mt. Aconcagua towers at approximately 23,000 feet compared to ~29,000 feet for Mt. Everest in the Himalayas (its summit bordering Tibet and Nepal) and ~28,200 feet for K2 of the Karakoram range in Pakistan.
In the spring of 2008, a colleague recently ventured on a climbing expedition to the top of Aconcagua as part of a fund-raising mountaineering activity for the St. John Health Health Foundation to support the MRI Guided Breast Biopsy program at Van Elslander Cancer Center. Shown are some of the awe-inspiring shots (courtesy of FL) from the gruelling but fulfilling trek to the highest mountain in the Americas.
(Video from youtube.com; posted by assyntbob 02.07.07)