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First rays of sun hit Chopicalqui and Huscaran. Cordillera Blanca, Peru.
© THE.WALRUS, Jul 2011
Camera used: Panasonic DMC-FZ45
Date taken: 16th July 2011
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UKC Photos - 31/May/20
Brilliant photo, have a 5. What's not to like - the clarity, the snowy col between the 2 peaks, the sunlight and shadows, the thick cloud bank below
profitofdoom - 31/May/20
Thanks - brings back some great memories of a year spent climbing in South America...
THE.WALRUS - 31/May/20
Might be just a coincidence, but today's exactly 50 years after the 31 May 1970 Huascaran tragedy, when an earthquake-triggered ice and rock avalanche killed tens of thousands of people, among them a whole Czechoslovak mountaineering team of fourteen climbers (incl. a very talented mountaineering photographer Heckel). Still, a nice photo!
Frank R. - 31/May/20
Yes, 70,000 dead and 50,000 injured. The monument is very moving....
THE.WALRUS - 01/Jun/20
Yes...70000 dead and 50000 injured. A tragedy of biblical proportions, and not much reported in the west. I have visited the monument, it very moving...
THE.WALRUS - 01/Jun/20
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