Mercedario
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Cerro Mercedario is the highest peak of the Cordillera de la Ramada range and the eighth-highest mountain of the Andes. It is located 100 km to the north of Aconcagua, in the Argentine province of San
View of the Mercedario from Barreal
The mountain seen from the Colorado Valley.
This mountain is located in El Leoncito National Park.
Vertical aerial photograph of glaciers on the southeast side of Cerro Mercedario.
Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz
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Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz, also known as Konstanty Narkiewicz-Jodko, was a Polish geophysicist who specialized in studying cosmic radiation. He was also a mountaineer, Arctic explorer, and balloonist
Mercedario
…province of San Juan. It was first ascended on January 18, 1934, by Adam Karpiński and Wiktor Ostrowski, members of a Polish andinist expedition led by Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz. The Polish party erected a cairn on the summit. In 1968, after several attempts by some of the strongest Argentine climbers, a Japanese group led by…
Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz
Konstanty Narkiewicz-Jodko before the balloon flight