The Polish Glacier (

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''Glaciar de los Polacos'') is one of the glacial fields of Cerro

Aconcagua Aconcagua () is a mountain in the Principal Cordillera of the Andes mountain range, in Mendoza Province, Argentina. It is the List of highest mountains on Earth, highest mountain in the Americas, the highest outside Asia, and the highest in the ...

, the highest peak in the

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and the Americas. It was named after the

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expedition of 1934.J. Neate (1994). ''Mountaineering in the Andes,'' p187. RGS 1994, Led by

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, the team developed an alternative route to the peak through the glacier, which was named ''the Polish Route''.

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