Trip Reports
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…
Zach checked in this evening with a brief call from 18,000 on Aconcagua. recording
Hello everyone! Thanks for following our Mt. Vinson expedition blog. After 11 days of effort we successfully climbed Mt. Vinson. We waited for good weather on several stages of the trip and we were rewarded with a beautiful summit day! We are all back safely in Punta Arenas and enjoying civilization again! I want to…
I just got off the phone with Zach Johnson, who called to report that the team is taking a leisurely rest and acclimatization day at Camp 2 today (Dec 31). They will bring in the new year by moving camp up to 20,000 feet tomorrow morning. It sounds like everyone did really well yesterday on…