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Cordillera Blanca, Ancash Region · Peru
Huascarán
Huascarán is Peru's highest mountain and the highest point in the tropics, its twin ice-clad summits towering over the Cordillera Blanca above the town of Yungay. The glaciated south summit, first climbed in 1932, is the true high point, while local legend casts Huascarán and neighboring Huandoy as star-crossed lovers turned to stone by a sympathetic sun god. The mountain's slopes also carry a somber history: a catastrophic 1970 earthquake-triggered ice avalanche buried the town of Yungay below, one of the deadliest disasters in the Andes.
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