HIKING ACONCAGUA
t’s 3.30 am on 20 January 2020 and temperatures have dropped to 25 degrees below zero. Here, at Camp Colera, the last of four camps along the ascent to Argentina’s highest peak, the wind howls and thrashes against our tents. The chill permeates our every bone. Reaching some 6,962 metres into the atmosphere, Mount Aconcagua is the tallest mountain in the western hemisphere, with a name whose origins are many and contested. Some say the
