Trip Reports
The team is making their way steadily up to the 22,841′ summit of Aconcagua, the highest point in the Americas. Climber David Kozma called in an update on the team, who moved yesterday, January 14, from Plaza Argentina Base Camp at 13,800’ (4200 m) to Camp One at Camp 1 at 16,300 (4970 m). The…
After making a push up the mountain to Camp 1 this morning, David Haffner called in a nice update on behalf of our January 6th Aconcagua team. The day began relatively early and the climbers shouldered packs with extra clothes, food and fuel. They hiked out of the Plaza Argentina Base Camp and into a…
Dave Kozma called in with a nice report, but it was unfortunately cut a bit short, due to the satellite connection being dropped. The team rested today in Base Camp, allowing their bodies to adjust to the much thinner air of 13,600′. They organized their kit and prepped their supplies in advance of making a…
The team made its way from Casa Piedra, up the beautiful Relinchos Valley, to Base Camp, also called Plaza Argentina. Lead Guide Fermin reports that everyone is doing well and the team made good time to camp. In the coming days, the plan is to cache a load of equipment and supplies at…
It looks like the team is enjoying good weather. Thanks for the photos, Rob!
Lead Guide Fermin called in the team report today. The group hiked about eight miles up the deep Vacas Valley to their first camp at Pampas de Leñas. The hike took them through high desert terrain, with scrub plants, bristly grasses and the occasional colorful chuckawalla lizard. They walked along the west bank of the…
Liina called in an update from High Camp, after the very accomplished team had finished a well-deserved post-summit meal. What a way to ring in 2019! We’ve actually just received word that the team made the trek all the way down to Base Camp on the standard route, so we should be receiving some 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…
Today, the team climbed from Camp 2 at 18,000 feet to High Camp at right about 20,000 feet! Everyone is feeling good, eating well and excited to take a shot at the summit early tomorrow morning. Adrian called in to give us the update and the excitement in his voice is palpable. The winds are…
Agne called in a nice report that was unfortunately dropped towards the end, but she shared some nice details about the team’s waiting game at Camp 2. Everyone is in good spirits and they are planning to move up to High Camp tomorrow. The winds up high have continued to be strong, but the forecasts…