The team moved out of the comforts of base camp and climbed up to Camp 1 today. They pitched tents and started in on making some dinner up at over 16,000 ft. Everyone is feeling good and acclimatized after spending 4 nights down at base camp before moving up. Tomorrow they’ll push even higher up…
DetailsThis is a great audio post from Jack. The team had a rest day today after a big day yesterday, and champagne last night. Jack does a great job of painting a picture of what a day at base camp is like.
Here’s the audio post.
The guys are at low camp again tonight after doing an acclimatization hike earlier today, and Sebastian was giving John some crevasse rescue training. They’re having a great time and hope to move up to high camp as early as tomorrow.
Here’s John.
John and Sebastian moved up to Camp 1 or “low camp” today in a 5 1/2 hour push. It’s a good long day with big packs, and pulling sleds full of food, but they did great. They’ll ring in the New Year there at low camp, and then plan to climb up to high camp…
The team is had a great day today, carrying loads of personal equipment and food up to Camp 1 before returning to base camp tonight. This was their first time moving up the mountain with their packs and gear and it sounds like they enjoyed themselves. Tonight they are back at the Plaza Argentina base…
John called from Vinson base camp this afternoon and it sounds like they are eating well! They spent the day preparing for the move to Camp 1 (low camp) tomorrow, and it sounds like they ate for the rest of the day.
Here’s John calling in.
Lead guide Jacob Schmitz sent in the following report late last night. The team flew off the Ice yesterday and arrived back in Punta Arenas. Hello! Thank you for following our Mountain Trip Mount Vinson expedition. As I write this, Mountain Trip has one more expedition underway on Mount Vinson. Sebastian stayed on the…
Welcome to Mountain Trip’s December 26th Mount Vinson Team. Our friend John Cheng from Australia is joining us down in Antarctica. John climbed Denali with us in 2011, and we appreciate his trust in joining us down at the other hemisphere for the next couple of weeks. Sebastian Grau Kundhardt, a veteran of many Mountain…
Erika called in a post that provides some very nice details about their day hiking up the steep and narrow Relinchos Valley. The team made great time on their hardest day of the trip to date, as they climbed about 3,000′ (1000m) from the broad, glacial plain of the Vacas Valley, along the tributary, Relinchos…
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. …