“Searching for Adolfo,” A Decades-old Disappearance of Two Climbers On Aconcagua May Be Solved
March 2019 article prompted a report of bodies high on the South Face, one matching the description of missing climber Adolfo Benegas.
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Searching for Adolfo
Adolfo Benegas and Eric Bender vanished without a trace on Aconcagua’s South Face in 1990. After 29 years of searching, Benegas' brother has found plane wreckage, stranded climbers, other remains and even a haunting. What he hasn’t found are answers.