The team took advantage of a beautiful day, and moved up to camp 1 or “low camp” today. They spent just over 5 hours on the trail and pulled into camp and had the place all to themselves. The weather is expected to stay nice for the next few days, so they are off to…
Jacob Schmitz called in from the bottom of our planet today! After one day of delay in Punta Arenas, the team loaded up and flew the 4.5 hours from the tip of South America to land on the immense Union Glacier, on the continent of Antarctica. Not too long after arriving, two plane loads of…
Jacob called this morning to say that they are heading to Antarctica this morning! The weather is good and the flight is on, so they are all excited to get underway. recording
Jacob called in from the Vinson Team from the southern tip of Chile. They are ready to go, bags are loaded on the plane, and they’ll be flying down as soon as they get the go ahead from the weather forecaster in Antarctica. Click the link to listen to the audio dispatch from Jacob. recording
Hello everyone and welcome to the Mountain Trip Vinson December 2nd expedition dispatches. Jacob here, checking in, and happy to let all of you know that the entire team has arrived with all of our bags (which is the first big hurdle of the trip). Let me introduce the team. Michael Koy from the US.…