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In November 2010, Facundo Arana summited at Aconcagua intending to raise awareness about blood donation and placed a flag on top of the “coloso de América” in commemoration of the 96th anniversary of the first blood transfusion in the country.
After climbing for a few days, the young Argentine actor, accompanied by a team of professionals, arrived at the summit of Aconcagua, the highest mountain of Argentina, to send a message to the community showing a flag with the inscription: GIVING BLOOD SAVES LIVES.
To help potential climbers better understand what it means to take on a climb like Aconcagua, we gathered up your top questions and asked Mike Hamill, owner of CTSS and author of Climbing the Seven Summits, and the talented team at CTSS to answer a few.
Together with Facundo, the mountain guide Ulises Corvalán, his assistant Hernan Netman and the photographer Pablo Betancourt travelled up the mountain. They also put a flag to commemorate the 96th anniversary of the first blood transfusion.
Dec 9, 2023 · She carried the camera with her to Aconcagua, taking photographs along the way, almost to the top. The Climb American newspapers sent them off, and Argentine newspapers greeted them at the ...
Mar 18, 2020 · After Mount Everest, Aconcagua is the world’s highest topographically prominent summit (i.e. the height of the summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling it). This makes it an ultra-prominent peak – notable for its exceptional rise (more than 1,500m/4,900ft) over the surrounding terrain.
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Feb 6, 2024 · The central character, however, is a 50-year-old Nikomat 35-millimeter camera, its unexposed film inside. The discovery, by porters prepping for a 2020 expedition on the Aconcagua, drove Branch’s reporting and forged the story’s structure.
