Haines resident Chandler Kemp and a hiking buddy from Sitka are waiting to see if research they conducted a year ago resolves a decades-long debate over the height of two peaks in South America.
In January 2011, Kemp, 21, and Sitkan Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, 22, climbed Ojos de Salado, a 22,608-foot mountain in the Andes that straddles the border between Argentina and Chile. They lugged up 20 pounds of global positioning equipment to answer a question…