January 11, 2025
The trekkers continued their traverse around Kilimanjaro, over the Lava Tower and back down to Barranco Camp today. They are acclimatizing a bit more each day and getting strong for the upper mountain. Here's the expedition update from Marcus today: "Climb high, sleep low! Today was a part of our
January 11, 2025
The team trekked up to the second approach camp in the Vacas Valley called Casa de Piedra today. It was a six-hour day and they hiked 16 km up to camp, where they arrived to find hot showers and another great meal. The team is doing great and sent some
January 9, 2025
Our second Aconcagua team of the 2024/2025 climbing season is on the mountain! Truly the “Roof of the Americas,” Cerro Aconcagua, at 22,841 feet (6,962 meters) is not only the highest mountain in South America, but also the highest peak outside of Asia. Located just east of the border between
January 9, 2025
Day 2 of the trek and things are doing great! They climbed out of the rainforest and into the more alpine zone today up to the Shira Cave Camp. Here's Marcus checking in from Camp: "Hello from Shira Cave Camp! Today we moved out of the rainforest as we tackled
January 8, 2025
The Schmidt Kilimanjaro team is at their first camp on the journey up Kilimanjaro. They began the trek this morning and ascended around 1,000 meters and 11km distance to the Machame Camp. Here's the update from Marcus this evening: "With bellies filled with French fries and banana fritters, we say
January 7, 2025
And they are off to Kilimanjaro! The Schmidt family has met our guide Marcus and the local crew including lead guide Fares (Bongo) at the Ndarakwai Ranch outside of Moshe Tanzania today. Marcus left from Colorado in a snowstorm and was delayed a day, but caught up to everyone in
December 16, 2024
Congratulations to the climbers who reached the summit on Dec 15th! They descended to base camp today, dropping down into the thick, warm air and back to the hospitality of our comfortable base camp scene. It looks like they had a great trip and some beautiful weather when they needed
December 15, 2024
They went to the summit today and they're all back down in high camp for the night. We haven't heard details, but they are doing great and had a successful day with a 14 hour round trip to the top of Aconcagua. They'll sleep in a bit in the morning
December 13, 2024
The climbers were able to explore around Camp 2 on an acclimatization hike today. They visited the old crashed helicopter that gives C2 the name Helicopter Camp. This helicopter crashed in the 80's and has been well preserved in the high, dry, cold atmosphere of Aconcagua. Thiyag, James, and Fermin
December 12, 2024
The climbers are at Camp 2 today waiting out the winds. They moved up to Camp 2 (18,000ft/5480m) yesterday, December 11, in under 3 hours from Camp 1, so they are moving strong! They woke up this morning and had another nice breakfast, then tried to climb up to Camp
