Europe at a third of the price. Argentina has almost every geographical feature imaginable… some of the highest mountains of the world, in the Andes (on its western border); desert in the Gran Chaco; wine-growing hills in the foothills of the Andes cordillera in Mendoza; ski resorts in northern Patagonia; oil and gas wells in and offshore southern Patagonia…overlooked by more sheep than people; and the great Pampas, the most fertile land on earth, where the topsoil is a yard deep.   m o r e . .