To the west are the saw-edges of glacier-encrusted rock and ice, serrated by more than 30 jagged peaks heavy with snow, the highest of which is 6, 768m-high Huascaran, the tallest mountain in the tropics.

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The tallest part of the tower block is side-on to the river, along which the prevailing wind blows.

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