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Aconcagua map Where Aconcagua is, and each route we map on it with the camps marked. Every map opens larger, and each group links to the chapter that describes the route.
Where Aconcagua is Where on Earth: Aconcagua, one of the 7 summits. · Imagery: NASA Earth Observatory “Blue Marble” · borders: Natural Earth (public domain) Aconcagua: Overview Aconcagua within South America. · Imagery: NASA Earth Observatory “Blue Marble” · borders: Natural Earth (public domain) The two routes this guide describes: the Normal Route up the Horcones Valley to Plaza de Mulas, and the Polish Traverse up the Vacas Valley to Plaza Argentina. The technical Polish Glacier lines leave the Traverse high on the mountain and are not drawn. Navigation aid only, not for wayfinding. · © MapTiler © OpenStreetMap contributors Read the chapter: Aconcagua: Overview
Normal Route Point at the route or drag along the profile to see the height and the distance walked.
The Normal Route from the Laguna Horcones ranger station to the summit. Every stop is marked; the upper camps are named on the closer views below, where they are far enough apart to read. The faint blue is real recorded GPS from other climbers: our line is one ascent, and where the blue spreads away from it, on the valley flats, that is the braid of paths people actually walk. Navigation aid only, not for wayfinding. · © MapTiler © OpenStreetMap contributors The whole route from almost overhead, north at the top. Seen this way the shape of it is plain: fifteen kilometres north up the Horcones valley, a turn west to Plaza de Mulas, and only then the climb. The dark wall below the summit is the South Face: the Normal Route never touches it. The dashed line to the west is the Chilean border: the mountain is wholly in Argentina, and you walk in from Ruta 7 at the bottom of the picture. · Elevation data © Copernicus DEM (GLO-30) · peak names © OpenStreetMap contributors Read the chapter: Normal Route
Confluencia to Plaza de Mulas The walk in, north at the top: from the ranger station up the Horcones valley to Confluencia, then the long haul to Plaza de Mulas. No climbing on this half, but it is where the acclimatization is won or lost, and Aconcagua is in sight at the head of the valley for most of it. · Elevation data © Copernicus DEM (GLO-30) · peak names © OpenStreetMap contributors Read the chapter: Confluencia to Plaza de Mulas
Plaza de Mulas to Plaza Cañada The climbing half, seen from the west: the side the route actually goes up. The scree slopes above base camp, the change of slope at Cambio de Pendiente, and the traverse across the top of the Gran Acarreo to the foot of the Canaleta. · Elevation data © Copernicus DEM (GLO-30) · peak names © OpenStreetMap contributors Read the chapter: Plaza de Mulas to Plaza Cañada
Summit day Summit day: past Independencia, then the long traverse across the top of the Gran Acarreo (which the guide warns is not the way down) to the cave at the foot of the Canaleta and the final gully. · Elevation data © Copernicus DEM (GLO-30) · peak names © OpenStreetMap contributors Read the chapter: Summit day
Vacas Valley routes Point at the route or drag along the profile to see the height and the distance walked.
The Polish Traverse (Falso de los Polacos), from Punta de Vacas up the Vacas valley to Plaza Argentina base camp, then west through the high camps and across to Rocas Blancas, where it joins the Normal Route for the summit. This page covers two routes and only one is drawn: the Polish Glacier proper is a technical ice climb, and it is not this line. The upper camps are marked but not named (at this width their labels would overprint) and each is named with its coordinates in the table below. The faint blue is real recorded GPS from other climbers, visible where their tracks spread away from ours; along the valley it lies underneath it. The short crossing from Camp 2 west to Rocas Blancas has almost no recorded GPS behind it, so that stretch is indicative rather than surveyed. Navigation aid only, not for wayfinding. · © MapTiler © OpenStreetMap contributors Read the chapter: Vacas Valley routes
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