DEAD ON ACONCAGUA
BRITISH EXPLORER FOUND LOST IN JULY LAST (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 9.5 a.m. VALPARAISO, Thurs. The body of Captain B. J. H. Marden, tlie British explorer, who was lost last July in an attempt to climb Aconcagua, the loftiest mountain in South America, which is 23,097 ft high, was found at 14,000 ft. Aconcagua, the giant of the Cordilleras, is 90 miles east of Valparaiso. An extinct volcano, it is in the Andes on the borders of Chile and Argentina, the summit being in the latter country. It was first ascended in 1897 by Zurbriggen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 9
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102DEAD ON ACONCAGUA Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 9
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