The team woke up this morning at Confluencia Camp, fueled up on breakfast, and continued hiking up the Horcones Valley to the Plaza de Mulas Base Camp! It’s a beautiful hike up to 14,100 feet (4,300 meters)—and a picturesque spot at the top of the valley and the base of Aconcagua—where they’ve settled in for…
The journey has begun and they are at the Confluencia Camp (3400 m/11,150 ft) on the approach to Aconcagua. On the approach to basecamp, they’re trekking with a day pack and the expedition gear is carried by Mules up the Horcones Valley. Our team will take an extra day at the Confluencia Camp to acclimatize…
Our Aconcagua team is assembled in Mendoza, Argentina, and poised to head up the trail tomorrow morning. Two climbers will be accompanied by our longtime Aconcagua guide, Fermin Avilà. Fermin has summited Aconcagua more than 30 times, and has been leading trips for Mountain Trip for the last decade. Aconcagua is the tallest peak in…
The guys are back down in the town of Cortaderas this evening enjoying the little luxuries of running water and a bed after their summit attempt yesterday. It sounds like they all had a great experience traveling in Argentina, visiting some small towns high in the Andes, and attempting to summit the third highest peak…
James called in this evening after returning from their summit attempt today on Cerro Pissis. They didn’t reach the summit today, but they’re already making plans to return next year for another go at it! They climbed to over 21,000 feet today, which is and extremely high altitude that is hard to find outside of…
James called in from high camp on Cerro Pissis for the evening expedition dispatch! They moved up with all their gear today and will get some rest before heading for the summit in the pre-dawn hours of the morning. They’ve got about 3,000 feet of climbing left to do to reach the 6,795 meter (22,293…
The guys spent last night up at Camp 1 and are already heading to High Camp today! They’ll shoulder their packs after breakfast today and head up to their High Camp at just under 19,000 feet. If everyone is feeling well and the weather continues to cooperate, they’ll head for the summit tomorrow (Friday) morning.…
The guys are doing great up high in the Andes mountains today. They hiked most of the way from Base Camp up to Camp 1 today to continue acclimatizing and get some good high-altitude exercise. They made it up to around 16,700 feet today and then returned back to Base Camp for the night. They…
James called in from base camp this evening from Cerro Pissis after a nice dinner. They are settled in at just over 15,000 feet, acclimating and preparing to move up to Camp 1 in the next couple of days. The weather continues to look good and they’re all doing great! The next move will be…
The climbers are in base camp tonight at 15,000 feet in the Andes looking up at Cerro Pissis. It’s a big jump in altitude from where they’ve been staying, but they’ve been climbing up to 13,000-14,000 feet for a couple of days now to acclimatize to this new height. They’re finally staying in tents after…