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OCR: The Aconcagua Expedition CLIMB SOUTH AMERICA'S HIGHEST PEAK Climb the highest mou ntair in the western hemisphere and the highest outside Asia!) Aconcagua (22 834 ir Argentina, rises some 000 feet above neigh bor ing peaks easily visible from the Pacific on clear day There are two com monly climbed routes on Aconcagua The Standard Route techni cally easy but nonethe less formid lable ascent when con sidering altitude cold weath and the possi ibility 01 sudden storms also offer the Polish Traverse which approaches the mountain via separate valley from the Standard Route This approach is bit longer (by four miles) with the 1ikeli hood of high water river crossings high OUTH monl limbed a1so whicr higr