Daughters scale Argentine peak, retrieve father's photos

Daughters scale mountain to retrieve photos, bag and pickaxe of legendary dad who died on peak 40 years ago

Guillermo Vieiro was 44 when he died in 1985 while descending Argentina's Tupungato lava dome, one of the highest peaks in the Americas.

In February, two daughters of the legendary Argentine mountaineer Guillermo Vieiro found his backpack on his last expedition to the Tupingato volcano in 1985. With film rolls from a Super 8 camera.

The two daughters of an Argentine climber who died 40 years ago on the slopes of a volcano recovered his backpack in February, which had been trapped in the ice. The rolls of Super 8 film they discovered inside have helped them learn more about their father's final moments. Source

The daughters of an Argentine mountaineer who died 40 years ago on the slopes of a volcano have recovered his backpack, hitherto a prisoner of ice, and Super 8 reels of film that allowed them to learn more about the last moments of their father's life.

Guillermo Vieiro died on the slopes of the Tupungato volcano in 1985. His backpack contained film reels with images of his ascent.

Four decades after their father's tragic death, his two children found his luggage, stuck in the ice at very high altitudes. Inside, a Super 8 camera containing new images that...