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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.