Trip Reports

January Vinson Team Moves to High Camp

The weather gods were smiling down on the team today, gifting a day for the record books: warm, calm, and sunny. Under these brilliant conditions the team moved from Camp 1 up to High Camp at 12,000′. Daniel reports that the team is feeling good and everyone did well on the move. Daniel and crew…

January 2020 Aconcagua Team – At Base Camp!

Great update today from Marty Keogh and Will Devries, who has continued with his theme of listing misfortunes seen along the trail (Mark – I totally know what plant you you intimately discovered today… I feel for you!). Today, the crew departed Casa de Piedra at an elevation of about 10,000′ and crossed the Vacas…

January Aconcagua Team Is On The Approach

Will Devries called in the team’s first dispatch from the field!  Expedition climbing is never dull (well – sometimes it can be!), and we really appreciate Will sharing some of the… less romantic aspects of expedition life. The team had a nice breakfast at Penitentes before loading up and driving a short ways to the…

Vinson Team At BaseCamp

The Mountain Trip Vinson Team made it to basecamp today! They caught a break in the weather and the ski-equipped twin otter planes flew them from their temporary home at Union Glacier to the base camp at the foot of Mount Vinson at just over 7000 ft. The views from this camp are spectacular as…

Vinson Team Is In Antarctica!

Our 2020 Mount Vinson expedition has arrived onto the southernmost continent!  Jacob Schmitz called in from the Union Glacier camp, after the team flew from Punta Arenas, Chile to Antarctica. The flight took about 4.5 hours, crossing over the Drake Passage and continuing down the Antarctic Peninsula.  The Russian made Ilushyn IL-76 transport plane landed…

Mount Vinson Expedition 2020

Welcome to the ice, January 2020 Mount Vinson Team! Minutes ago, the team departed from Punta Arenas, bound for Antarctica! They are excited to continue further south and to begin climbing. Mount Vinson is the highest peak in Antarctica lying within the Ellsworth mountain range a mere 600 miles from the South Pole. The icy…