The team is enjoying a Christmas Eve rest day in their comfy dining tent at the Plaza Argentina basecamp tonight. These rest days are all about acclimatizing and recovering before moving higher on the mountain, so this was well timed to enjoy a Christmas Eve rest day in the comforts of base camp. Everyone sounds…
John Schaffer called in from the Plaza Argentina Base Camp! The team hiked about seven miles and 3000′ of elevation up the steep-sided Relinchos Valley today, making it the toughest day on the trail thus far. Everyone is doing great and they are excited to enjoy the comforts of Base Camp for a few days.…
Dave Montesanti called in to give us an update on the Donner Party, err… on Mountain Trip’s December 2019 Aconcagua Expedition. It’s good to keep a sense of humor whilst on an expedition, and, judging on today’s dispatch – I reckon the team has a surplus of humor! They awoke fairly early today and hiked…
The team is on the move! Yesterday, they drove from Mendoza up into the rugged, arid mountains just shy of the border with Chile. They stopped for lunch in a town called Ushpallata, which gained some fame years ago as the base for the filming of the Brad Pitt film, Seven Years In Tibet. After…
DECEMBER 19th ACONCAGUA TEAM Truly the “Roof of the Americas,” Cerro Aconcagua, at 22,841 ft. (6,962 meters) is not only the highest mountain in South America, but also the highest peak outside of Asia. The December 19 group met a couple of days back in the small, lively city of Mendoza, Argentina, capital of the…