Mountain Trip guide Jesse Yon called in from Mendoza, Argentina following the team’s trek out from Aconcagua. They departed the Plaza De Mulas Base Camp early in the morning and hiked south for about 15 miles out the Horcones Valley. The trek took about six hours. After checking out with the Provincial Park Service, the…
The team called in a dispatch, but it was largely unintelligible. They made it back to camp, after a 12 hour round-trip to the highest point on earth outside of the Himalaya. Everyone is stoked, but they are pretty tired after their big day. They will spend tonight at High Camp before descending a vertical…
The team is on the summit!!! Congratulations to the team, who just called in from the top of the Americas. They started in the dark at about 5:30am, climbing by headlamp for the first hour. The summit route starts up the north ridge of the mountain, and trends to the east side for a bit,…
The team moved up to high camp today, they awoke to a bit of snow, but it didn’t slow them down. The climb to high camp at over 19,000ft is relatively short, but the pace is generally slow due to the high altitude and lack of oxygen to power the climbers. They had an early…
Dave Montesanti gave us a ring on this last day of the decade, checking in from 18,000′ at Chopper Camp. The team is doing great, feasting on pizza and steaks at one-half an atmosphere! Dave gave a nice shout out to two of the team who departed from Base Camp, following a nasty bit of…
Kevin Johnson called in today from Chopper Camp, located at 18,000′ on the east flank of Aconcagua. The team carried loads up to their high camp today, a flat expanse on the north ridge of the mountain that is often known as Campo Cholera, a testament to the need to be diligent about sourcing snow…
The team moved up to Camp 2 today and they are settled in and enjoying another great meal tonight. Our lead Aconcagua guide, Fermin Avila, is a great guide and an amazing mountain cook, so the team enjoys eating well up there. Camp 2 is on a gentle ridge at 18,000 ft and the views…
Ron called in the evening dispatch from our Dec 19 Aconcagua team today. Their task for the day was to climb up to Camp 2 at around 18,000ft to acclimatize and drop off some gear before returning back down to Camp 1 for another night. They had a great day, everyone moved really well and…
The team moved up to Camp 1 at 16,300ft today, leaving the comforts of basecamp behind as they move up the hill. They did great today and the winds did not have the intensity of their Christmas Day carry to Camp 1. They’ll plan to make an acclimatization climb up to Camp 2 tomorrow, and…
The team spent Christmas day climbing up to Camp 1 at over 16,000 ft to cache a bit of gear and begin acclimatizing to higher altitude. They met with their first really strong winds as they approached Camp 1, but were able to make it up there and drop off a load of gear to…