Laura called from Mendoza this morning to give us the final trip wrap up. Sounds like they had a great time and are hoping to enjoy a bit of the culture of Argentina before heading back home in the next day or two. Congrats to the team, and we have to say we are really…
Joe, Rich, and Laura summitted Aconcagua yesterday (Wednesday 12/12/12) and are down at Plaza de Mulas base camp today enjoying the thick air, and the food of the base camp chef. They had sat phone difficulties for the last few days and were unable to call and give us the update, but they are all…
Here’s the call from Joe at base camp after a successful summit day on Aconcagua yesterday. recording
The team remaining on the mountain took a day to rest and acclimatize today at Camp 2, at over 17,000 ft. They are doing great and are looking at a possible summit attempt on Wednesday if the weather cooperates a little bit for a change. They are in great spirits, and still optimistic up there.…
The November 26th team regrouped at base camp after a pretty intense wind storm a couple days ago and are back on the move. Rich, Laura, and Joe are on their way back up the mountain, and the rest of the crew is heading back to Mendoza. They’ve used up most of their weather days,…
Joe called back and it sounds like they are having a good time up there. They are all sleeping in the big dining tent tonight, and they’ll call tomorrow with some updates. Listen to the call: recording
After a pretty epic wind storm that destroyed tents all over Aconcagua last night, our team packed up their ripped up tents and descended back to base camp to regroup. Aconcagua can be a very windy mountain, and this was a big wind storm even for Aconcagua with tents ripped apart by wind even at…
Joe Butler called from Camp 1 at about 16,400′ on the east side of Aconcagua. They had a good hard push up to camp yesterday and a couple of the team are benefiting from resting today. The winds have been pretty strong, blowing about 30 knots, and in the morning, they considered calling it a…
Scott had the honors of making the evening check in from Plaza Argentina base camp. The team had another day to rest and acclimatize here before pushing up to Camp 1 tomorrow. Sounds like they are doing great and enjoying the little luxuries of base camp for one last day. Here’s Scott: recording
Here’s Ron calling in from base camp this afternoon after a good day of carrying loads up to (or almost to) camp 1. Aconcagua is a notoriously windy place, and it has been living up to its reputation lately. They are doing great and are happy to be taking a final rest and acclimatization day…