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6,961 meters. 40 percent oxygen. Minus 25 degrees. And a mountain that hasn't let anyone reach its summit in sixteen days.

In January 2024, Raphael Mielke sets out for Argentina to fulfill a dream that has refused to let go of him since a chance bus ride six years earlier: Aconcagua, the highest mountain of the Americas. Ahead of him lie three weeks of dust, storm, and thin air - with a group of strangers who will soon share everything you can share on a mountain, a Japanese climber setting out on the final expedition of his life, and a night at 5,500 meters when everything hangs in the balance.

The Stone Sentinel is an honest, self-critical account of why people climb mountains, what they find up there and what the ones waiting below carry with them. A true story about patience, humility, and the art of walking slowly. And about three words that, after fifteen hours, mean everything: We made it.

Includes more than 30 photographs, a custom route map, and an extensive practical appendix: What does an Aconcagua expedition cost? How should you train? What belongs in a summit-day pack? How dangerous is it, really? - For everyone dreaming of the highest mountain of the Americas, and for everyone who wants to understand why.

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