Aconcagua 2014 Kilian Jornet set a record for climbing and descending Aconcagua from Horcones in 12 hours and 49 minutes. The record was broken less than two months later by Ecuadorian-Swiss Karl Egloff, in a time of 11 hours 52 minutes, nearly an hour faster than Kilian Jornet. The mountain has a cameo in a 1942 Disney cartoon called "Pedro", which features a small, anthropomorphic airplane named Pedro who has a near-disastrous encounter with Aconcagua while carrying mail over the Andes. Aconcagua is the highest peak in the Americas and is also considered an "easy" high altitude peak, being nearly .
Sierra del Toro Its summits are usually covered in snow in the winter and are among the highest peaks of the Land of Valencia. Therefore there are also numerous ancient ice houses. These mountains have been often devastated by forest fires in hot and dry summers and extensive planting of trees has been undertaken. This mountain range was the scenario of violent battles during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) when the fascist troops tried to split the Spanish Republican government territory in two and reach the Mediterranean coast and there are many remains of trenches. Sierra del Toro Sierra del Toro () is