Ted Hesser

Cerro Mercedaruo, seen from up high on Aconcagua in the Central Andes last week. Had a few epic sunsets while camped out up there through a storm cycle. This peak is just a few hundred meters shorter than Aconcagua, but is barely known or climbed. Would love to plan another trip there some day.

Skyline of my dreams.

At the edge of the world, the horizon turned into sky. It was just a sea of white. Snow, and glaciers at first. Then rolling, bulbous clouds. I sat there for awhile. Thinking about the meaning of it all. Then my sunglasses were blown off my forehead, down a few thousand foot cliff band below…. The moral of this story is to always climb big mountains with two pairs of sunglasses.