Trip Reports
The team had their final pre-flight briefing today and the weather looks good for a flight to the Union Glacier base in Antarctica tomorrow morning! This is always a big hurdle, as they are flying down to a solid blue ice runway on a glacier in Antarctica. They can only fly the big Illyushin jet…
The climbers are back to the Union Glacier Base this today after a 45 minute flight in a ski plane from Vinson Base Camp. They spent a couple of extra days at Vinson Base after their summit enjoying the beauty of Antarctica and getting their fill of winter camping. They are scheduled to fly back…
The Mountain Trip December 14th Mount Vinson Expedition team is meeting today at the southern tip of South America in the port city of Punta Arenas, Chile. They’ll spend the next couple of days making all of the last minute preparations, and checking their gear list one last time before hopping on a plane bound…
Laura called from Mendoza this morning to give us the final trip wrap up. Sounds like they had a great time and are hoping to enjoy a bit of the culture of Argentina before heading back home in the next day or two. Congrats to the team, and we have to say we are really…
Joe, Rich, and Laura summitted Aconcagua yesterday (Wednesday 12/12/12) and are down at Plaza de Mulas base camp today enjoying the thick air, and the food of the base camp chef. They had sat phone difficulties for the last few days and were unable to call and give us the update, but they are all…
Here’s the call from Joe at base camp after a successful summit day on Aconcagua yesterday. recording
Cason called in from Vinson Base Camp this evening. They had a great summit day yesterday, and today packed up and headed all the way to our big comfortable dome tent at base camp. Listen to Cason’s call. recording
Jacob called in to let us know that they were all back to camp after a 9 hour summit day. They are settling in for some hot soup and dinner before crawling into their sleeping bags for some well deserved sleep. recording
The guys called from the top of Antarctica! It’s a beautiful, but typically cold Antarctic day. They’ll snap a couple of pictures and head on back to camp in just a bit. Congratulations to Cason, Mike, Ed, and Jacob! Here’s their call from the top! recording
Jacob called to check in as they approach the summit on a beautiful day in Antarctica. They are on the summit ridge, taking a slightly different route than the “normal” route and enjoying some fun climbing on a great summit day. Everyone is feeling strong and they’ll plan to call back from the summit in…