ACONCAGUA

Aconcagua (Spanish pronunciation: [akoŋˈkaɣwa]) is a mountain in the Principal Cordillera of the Andes Mountain range, in Mendoza Province, Argentina. It is the highest mountain in the Americas, the highest outside Asia, and the highest in both the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. with a summit elevation of 22,838 feet. It lies 70 miles northwest of the provincial capital, the city of Mendoza, about 3 miles from San Juan Province, and 9 miles from Argentina's border with Chile.  Aconcagua also has the greatest isolation of all mountains. There is no higher land for 10,273 miles when its height is first exceeded by Tirich Mir in the Hindu Kush.

OJOS DEL SALADO

 

Nevado Ojos del Salado is a dormant complex volcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border. It is the highest volcano on Earth, the highest peak in Chile and the second-highest summit of the Andes.  The complex extends over an area of 27–62 square miles and its highest summit reaches an altitude of 22,615 feet above sea level.  Ojos del Salado hosts the highest lake in the world in the form of the unnamed crater lake in the summit crater. It lies at 21,260–21,330 feet elevation and covers an area of 65,000 square feet. Waters in a creek flowing into this lake reach temperatures 105.4 °F.  On April 21, 2007, the Chilean duo of Gonzalo Bravo and Eduardo Canales Moya, driving a modified Suzuki Samuri, reached an altitude of 21,942 feet on Ojos del Saldo, thus setting the high-altitude record for a four-wheeled (land) vehicle.

Ojos del Salado on the Argentina-Chile border, the world's highest volcano at 22,615 feet