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Cordillera Blanca | Nevado Huascarán Norte

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View from the slopes of the Cordillera Negra 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 scene was the source of two catastrophic mass flows in 1962 and, particularly, in 1970.