Berny's photos with the keyword: RN 7

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

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

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

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

Looking back to the truck fire on Ruta 7, from the ascent to Paso de Upsallata. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Burning truck on Ruta 7, driving up to the Chilean border. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Burning truck on Ruta 7, driving up to the Chilean border. This photo has been taken about 2 hours after the next one. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

To the left the remains of the Transandine railway, the smoke is caused by a massive truck fire ahead. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Abandoned facilities of the old "Transandine Railway", which connected Mendoza with Chile, here at the Estacion Puente del Inca (old sulphur baths). The summit in the far background is Cerro Caracoles (4465 m). - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Abandoned facilities of the old "Transandine Railway", which connected Mendoza with Chile, here at the Estacion Puente del Inca (old sulphur baths). The summit in the far left background is Cerro Quebrada Negra (4812 m). - scanned slide, Minolta X700

In 1965 one of many avalanches ended the dream of maintaining the thermal hotel in Puente del Inca (ruins in the background). The hotel had been a place of retreat and recreation since 1925. Thermal water was available in each room. The imposing Trasandino Railroad had a station in front of the hotel facilities (some remains in the foreground), which was reached from Mendoza after tunnels, mountains, viaducts and incredible landscapes. That avalanche of 1965 could not, however, destroy the colonial-style Chapel, small and built at the beginning of the 20th century. A first avalanche leaned on the walls of the chapel and served as a shelter for the much more powerful second avalanche, which devastated the hotel facilities. The chapel has been repaired by the army, it remained in operation until 2005. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Los Penitentes (ca. 2600 m altitude) is a ski resort in Argentina about 25 km off Paso de Libertadores, which marks the border between Argentina and Chile, and 180 km from Mendoza Capital City, at the foot of Mount Aconcagua on Ruta 7. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

scanned slide, Minolta X700

Ruta Nacional 7 leads through a wild rough landscape and is joining Argentina and Chile with its highest point, the Paso de Upsallata. - scanned slide, Minolta X700