Berny's photos

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Driving upstream on Ruta Provincial 173, with the brave Kangoo, a very remote road along the Atuel Canyon. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Driving on Ruta Provincial 173 along the wonderful valley of Rio Atuel. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Driving south on the wonderful Ruta 41 in Santa Cruz - Argentina! - scanned slide, Minolta X700 HFF and a wonderful weekend everyone!

The hydro power complex is called "Nihuil IV". The reservoir has an area of about 5 km² and a volume of 168 Mio. m³ of water. - Departamento San Rafael, Province Mendoza, Argentina. We are now at about a third of the trip from Salta all the way south to Ushuaia. - scanned slide, Minolta X700, Fujichrome 100

The concrete dam "Presa Valle Grande" backs up the reservoir "Embalse Valle Grande" (Rio Atuel). The dam is 115 m tall, the crest is 300 m long, the flood spillway has a capacity of 512 m³/s. The hydro power plant "Nihuil IV" opened in 1997. - If the spillway goes in operation, the camping site is not recommendable ;-) - scanned slide, Minolta X700

The hydro power complex is called "Nihuil IV". The reservoir has an area of about 5 km² and a volume of 168 Mio. m³ of water. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Driving south on Ruta Provincial 173 along Rio Atuel, south of San Rafael, Province Mendoza. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

This is an abandoned railway station of the "Transandine Railway" (Ferrocarril Trasandino), which was a 1000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge combined rack (Abt system) and adhesion railway which operated from Mendoza in Argentina, across the Andes mountain range via the Uspallata Pass (through a tunnel), to Santa Rosa de Los Andes in Chile, a distance of 248 km. The railway has been out of service since 1984, and has been partly dismantled. There has been talk about restoring the railway, but there is currently no indication of any restorative work underway. - Now at this station a tiny hotel is situated, called "Mundo Perdido" (the real place). The colors of the minerals were amazing. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

While it looks almost brand new, the railway bridge across the Rio Mendoza is abandoned since 1984. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

While it looks almost brand new, the railway bridge across the Rio Mendoza is abandoned since 1984. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

A cemetery mainly for Aconcagua mountaineers, many of them with german names. The PiP shows the grave of the supposedly first "victim of the Aconcagua". First of all: There are no "victims of mountains", only victims of uncalculable risk etc., and I doubt that 1926 there was the first dead climber, there must have been native people before most probably. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Supposedly the first victim of mountaineers, who tried to climb on the almost 7000 m high mountain. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

A last image of this beautiful mountain pass "Paso de Uspallato", driving back down in the valley of Rio Mendoza. The view goes to the most upstream part of the valley and to the summit of "Nevado Matienzo" (5044 m). The peak at the right image border is called "Sin Nombre" (5154 m), which means "nameless" ;-) - scanned slide, Minolta X700

This is the Chilean side of the pass. We intended to drive down here and back to Argentina via tunnel, but it was closed because of snowdrifts. The high peak in the left background is Nevado Juncal (5965 m), other summits are marked in the image. What you see here as line in the snowy slope is only a footpath, not the road, which is below leading down right. scanned slide - Minolta X700

Christ the Redeemer of the Andes is a monument high in the Principal Cordillera of the Andes at 3832 metres on the border between Argentina and Chile. It was unveiled on 13 March 1904 as a celebration of the peaceful resolution of the border dispute between the two countries. In 1904, the bronze statue was moved in pieces 1200 kilometers by train, then carried up the mountains by mule. The mountain in the background is Cerro Santa Elena (4595 m) - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Looking north from Paso de Uspallata (3832 m) to Cerro Tolosa (5379 m) and left behind a liitle bit of Aconcagua (6961 m), down in the valley of Rio Mendoza is Ruta 7, which crosses the Andes through a tunnel to Chile. - scanned slide, Minolta X700