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<p>One man's personal account of the first alpine-style ascent of the Messner Route on the South Face of Aconcagua.</p><p><br></p><p>In early 1980 three men set out to summit the highest peak in the Southern Hemisphere - Argentina's Aconcagua standing at 22838 feet. The trio would ascend via the Messner Route on the South Face a route that had been climbed before once but never alpine style - no oxygen no fixed ropes no support team...just three men carrying all their own gear equipment and food. Aconcagua is a challenging mountain with unpredictable weather falling rock and avalanches. The author and his climbing partners experienced all of that and more. In this personal account of his life-changing experience Michael French brings the reader along into the world of those few weeks on the mountain complete with highs and lows loss and bittersweet triumph.</p><p><br></p><p> </p>