Friday Field Foto #96: A view of Aconcagua from the air
October 23, 2009
This week’s Friday Field Foto is one I snapped as the flight from North America I was on was starting it’s decent into Santiago, Chile. It was about an hour or so after sunrise and when I opened the window shade I saw this:
Cerro Aconcagua (© 2009 clasticdetritus.com)
Cerro Aconcongua (6,962 m/22,841 ft) is in the Andes Mountain range between Mendoza, Argentina and Santiago, Chile and is the highest peak in the western hemisphere. A very nice view to wake up to after a long flight.
Below I try to recreate the view in GoogleEarth … close enough.
credit: GoogleEarth
Happy Friday!
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Clastic Detritus 
Those are amazing photos.