Joe Butler called in to report that the team made good time on the 8-mile hike to the site of their camp 2 on the approach to Base Camp. The weather was warm throughout much of the day, but became quite windy just before they arrived at Casa de Piedra, their home for the evening. …
Our fourth Aconcagua team is headed up the beautiful Vacas Valley, headed towards the eastern Base Camp for an attempt to climb the highest peak in the Americas. Three days of hiking will see them 25 miles from and almost 5000 feet above the trailhead. The team arrived in the small city of Mendoza, Argentina…
The team is back at Vinson Base Camp, following a very successful summit day. They packed up their camp and made the long march back down the Branscomb Glacier today and have been feasting on steaks and Chilean wine back in the relative luxury of our big dome tent at Base Camp. They might fly…
The climbers are all back in camp, eating and relaxing after a great summit day. Great job everyone! They’ll sleep in a bit tomorrow and head all the way down to base camp to have a celebratory Christmas Dinner! Here’s Jacob from High Camp. recording
The team is on top of Mount Vinson and they passed the satellite phone around so everyone could say hello from the top of Antarctica. Congratulations to all, and especially Mitch who just completed the 7 summits with this climb. Listen to the team on top of Mount Vinson. recording
Jacob called to give us a progress report on their summit day. They are doing great, very light wind and relatively warm temps today, so a great day to go to the top. They are still a few hours from the summit, but everybody is doing well and they should make it. We hope to…
recording The Vinson team moved up to high camp yesterday, and woke this morning to a beautiful warm (Antarctica style) day and they are going to head for the summit! They’ve had breakfast and will be packing up and leaving in the next 30 minutes or so. We hope to hear from them as the…
It was another day of strong winds today on Aconcagua as the team attempted to move up to Camp 2 at almost 18,000 ft. They were getting blown around by the strong winds, and setting tents up in these strong winds would have been very difficult. With a forecast of even stronger winds for the…
The team enjoyed a day to acclimatize and rest before moving to high camp tomorrow. The highlights of the day included food, naps, and a bit of football. All is well in for the team tonight and they say hi to their families back home. Here’s the call from Antarctica. recording
The team is doing great and they carried a load of food, fuel and a bit of gear up to high camp today. It’s mostly a day to acclimatize to the higher altitudes, and then descend back to the “Low Camp” to sleep and recover. They had a bit of light snow today, but overall …