Pure Argentina

It was the first almost-seven-thousander I had seen in my life. Cerro Aconcagua is the highest mountain on earth outside of Asia, and I thought it kind of showed. As I approached the gigantic mountain massif, I heard from various travelers that the landscape had served as a backdrop for the movie “Seven Years in Tibet” since Tibet had been ruled out as a filming location for political reasons. I came to experience Argentina and found it absurd to compare it with the Tibetan landscape,especially while enjoying bife de chorizo over good wine that evening in Mendoza.

Parque Provincial Aconcagua (Argentina), November 2006