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Cordillera Blanca | Nevado Huascarán Norte |
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Sunset view from Matacoto to the lower N summit (6654 m) of the highest tropical mountain worldwide. The steep face of rock and ice shown in the centre of the image was the source of two catastrophic mass flows in 1962 and, particularly, in 1970.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Thursday 20 July 2017 by Martin Mergili
- Region
- Keywords
- glacial processes, glacier, landslide, lightscape, mountaintop, rock fall
- Visits and license
- 6760 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license