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Mountain Trip Jan. 23 Aconcagua Team

Our final team for the 2011/12 Aconcagua team is meeting in Mendoza today!  They’ll spend the afternoon checking gear and enjoying a beautiful summer day in Mendoza Argentina.   It’s a beautiful city with sidewalk cafe’s and big city parks every couple of blocks.   They’ll go out for a “welcome dinner” tonight, Mendoza is famous for…

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January 23, 2012Leave a commentBy Mountain Trip

Aconcagua Team – Final Dispatch from Mendoza

Final Blog Dispatch Aconcagua Dec 19th Expedition As I sit and write this last blog update I think to myself can it get any HOTTER! It is hard to believe that just a few short days ago we were on the highest point in the Southern and Western Hemispheres. Nick the “Brit” said that it…

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January 8, 2012Leave a commentBy Mountain Trip

Aconcagua Team – Back in Mendoza

Zach just called in to the office to let us know that the entire team is back in Mendoza, swapping photos from their climb. They hiked out the Horcones Valley yesterday, in a long push downhill from the bustling Plaza de Mulas base camp on the West side of the mountain. Arriving at the trailhead,…

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January 5, 2012Leave a commentBy Mountain Trip

Aconcagua Team – In Mendoza

Our December 19 Aconcagua team arrived back in Mendoza late last night after a long day. They awoke yesterday at Plaza de Mulas base camp at over 14,000 ft and about 18 miles from the trailhead. They hiked down the Horcones Valley where they were met a van which brought them back to Mendoza late…

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January 5, 2012Leave a commentBy Mountain Trip

Aconcagua Team – down to base camp

The guys are back down to basecamp this afternoon and enjoying some food and beer at the relatively low elevation of only 14,000 ft. Everyone is doing great and feeling good in the thick air of base camp. Our teams do a traverse of Aconcagua, and descend a different route than they climb up. They…

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January 3, 2012Leave a commentBy Mountain Trip

Aconcagua Team – Back at High Camp

The team is back at high camp after what sounds like a great summit day. Hideko and Fermin made it to the summit of Aconcagua and are back in camp, along with Zach, Nick and Yashushi. Shlomo is recuperating from a bug that laid him low today. We’re all sorry that he was unable to…

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January 2, 2012Leave a commentBy Mountain Trip

Aconcagua Team – Returned to High Camp

The team is back to high camp after a successful summit day! It snowed on them a bit, but was otherwise a great summit. They’ll settle into their tents at high camp for some well deserved food and rest this evening, and then get up to head down to the Plaza de Mulas base camp…

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January 2, 2012Leave a commentBy Mountain Trip

Aconcagua Team – SUMMIT!!!

Zach Johnson just called from the summit of Aconcagua! Details are slim, but it sounded like a pretty good day and they were on top in light snow. The connection was not great, but they were definitely on the summit. We’ll post more details as we get them. The team was going to call back…

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January 2, 2012Leave a commentBy Mountain Trip

Aconcagua Team – Call from the Summit!

Zach called from the top of the Western Hemisphere! Three of our team are on the summit of Aconcagua in light snow. Zach, Yasushi and Nick are all standing on the highest point of South America. Hideko and Fermin are just behind, making their way up the Canaleta. Unfortunately, Shlomo was not feeling well this…

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January 2, 2012Leave a commentBy Mountain Trip

Aconcagua Team – Call from the Canaleta

The team called in from the base of the long, scree-filled gully known as the Canaleta. They are about to climb up the final 2.5 hours to the top of the mountain. There is often a decent trail through the scree, or rather, alongside the worst of it, and Zach will sniff it out. Yoshiko…

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January 2, 2012Leave a commentBy Mountain Trip
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