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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Death in the Andes
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'Otra muerte en las montañas’ declared the front page of Mendoza’s daily newspaper Diario Uno. If there was any uncertainty about the meaning of the headline, the full colour photograph of the body, lifeless in a pool of blood on the snow, erased it. Vale Shigeru Kimura of Japan, found dead at 6000 metres above sea level at the base of the rocky and difficult canaleta. He came to Argentina to climb Cerro Aconcagua, 6962 metres, roof of the Americas, second highest of the Seven Summits. ...'

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    y separately published work icon Northern Territory Literary Awards 2011 Northern Territory Government , Northern Territory : Northern Territory Government , 2011 9885652 2011 selected work poetry prose

    his publication is a collection of poems, short stories and essays written by the finalists and winners of the 2011 Northern Territory Literary Awards.

         Northern Territory : Northern Territory Government , 2011     pg. 68-71 Section: Charles Darwin University Bookshop Travel Short Story Award
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Subjects:
  • Andes, South America, Americas,
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