SCALING ACONCAGUA TWO CHYENNE MEN CLIMB FOUR VERTICAL MILES TO CONQUER PEAK

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle | April 6, 2005| | Copyright

CHEYENNE -- When they reached the top of Aconcagua, local firefighters Collin Moody and Jon Haberkorn might have been the highest men on Earth.

"Unless someone was making a night summit attempt on (Mount) Everest, we were probably the highest," Moody said recently from his home here after returning from a month-long trip to Argentina in February.

Aconcagua (pronounced ah-con-ca-gwa) is the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere.

The men spent two weeks climbing this towering mound of jagged stone that rises out of western Argentina near the Chilean border.

Although considered a ...

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