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IN the book entitled “The Highest Andes,” Mr. E. A. Fitz Gerald relates the experiences of himself and his party upon the journey which he made in 1896-97 in the neighbourhood of Aconcagua, the highest mountain at present known in South America, which it was his aim to map and to ascend. He describes in considerable detail the various operations of the expedition, and recounts with rare frankness the sensations of himself and of his assistants at low atmospheric pressures. Various other matters of considerable public interest are introduced incidentally in his volume, such as the Trans-Andine Railway and the Boundary dispute between Chili and the Argentine Republic; but the attention of the reader will be mainly engrossed by his history of the attacks upon the two great mountains Aconcagua and Tupungato, neither of which was conquered easily.
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WHYMPER, E. Fitz Gerald's “Highest Andes” 1 . Nature 62, 38–41 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062038a0
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