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Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Los Glaciares National Park, Santa Cruz Province · Argentina
Cerro Torre
A slender granite spire capped by wind-sculpted rime ice, Cerro Torre is one of the most technically demanding and storm-battered summits on Earth. Rising from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field near the town of El Chaltén, it is as famous for its climbing controversies as for its beauty — a disputed 1959 claim and a bolt-chopping incident decades later both became landmark episodes in mountaineering ethics. Notoriously fierce Patagonian weather means climbers often wait weeks for the narrow windows needed to attempt it.
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