Trip Reports

Aconcagua Team Calls from the Summit!

The call is a bit broken, but the team is on the summit of Aconcagua!  It sounds like they got a really nice day and they are doing great.  They’ll descend back to high camp this afternoon and crawl into their tents for the night before heading all the way to basecamp tomorrow.  We’ll hope…

December 16 Aconcagua Team Carries To Camp 3

Despite the high winds above, the team pushed loads of food and supplies to High Camp today!  They worked hard, climbing a somewhat steep hill immediately above Camp 2 and then traversing up and north to access a shallow basin that drops off the north ridge of Aconcagua.  Switchbacks led up the basin, passing bizarre…

Aconcagua Team – Acclimating at C1

The Aconcagua team is having a good time up at Camp 1 where they spent the day resting, acclimatizing, and strategizing about the next few days. There is a storm coming in and it looks like everyone is going to be hunkered down for a couple of days while it blows through.  The team decided…

Aconcagua Team – Rest Day at BC

Agne called in with what sounded to be a very informative, interesting and detailed report, but unfortunately, the satellite phone signal was not great, so we have only bits and pieces of the production that is Adrian’s water treatment system.  I’m sure you’ll all be on pins and needles, awaiting the missing parts of that!!…