Trip Reports
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Zach called in with an update from our teams summit bid. They are a couple of hours into their hike and have climbed up into the sun! the team has split into two groups, and Zach, Nick and Yasushi are all together at the ruins of what was once the Independencia Hut, at about 21,500′.…
Zach called in at 4:40 am local time to let us know that they were gearing up to head to the summit. This is a pre-dawn start in that part of the world, and they will hike the first hour or so by headlamp. Good luck to all the climbers! recording
The team moved up to high camp today! They had a good day to pack up and hit the trail and made good time moving the 2,000′ up to the area known as “White Rocks.” The trail climbs steeply out of Camp 2 and into a long, broad basin with an old, dead glacier covered…