Base Camp sweet Base Camp!
After a long day descending from high camp the group is at Base Camp drinking beer and eating Pizza!
They are all excited to be back and enjoying a warm Base Camp, with all is amenities, Chef and comfort Cheers to them!Rodrigo Mujica / AP Director
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Summit Day!
The team got only 65 meters from the top!! Nine members of this expedition got only 200 feet from the top! What a phenomenal accomplishment with the harsh weather this team has experienced during their climb! This season has been a hard one, so far. Temperatures have been extremely cold for early December. The mountain has finally begun to warm up.
We would like to congratulate all Team Members and Guides from this first trip of the season. They ...
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High Camp and Summit day tomorrow!
Big day tomorrow! Wes and the team are in high camp. An euphoric Wes called a minute ago, to say they are THE ONLY ONES THERE (unusual); and that the weather is awesome, as good as the team attitude. Bad weather is over (at least today), and they will try the summit tomorrow. I attach a pic of how it is going to be tomorrow (from last season). High Camp, or White Rocks, is at almost 6000m (19600ft), so they have an almost 1000 meter gain ahead, t...
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Chopper Camp
The group is resting at CII (camp 2), called "the chopper camp",at 18.000 ft approx. They will do a carry to High Camp tomorrow. I am attaching a pic of CII. At that altitude you get a taste of this big mountain, as wind and cold and of course altitude show their power. It is also where the most awesome landscape and purest blue skies are enjoyed.
Nicolás GarcíaAP Mendoza
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Progress in the mountain
With hard work and motivation, the group is progressing up the slopes. Despite the strong winds and bitter cold of the last days, the climbers and guides are ok at camp II, and waiting for the weather. In fact many seasoned climbers in Aconcagua believe that bad weather in the lower camps is not bad, because it means that it can improve in the altitude days -when it really counts-. The picture of the camp is from a previous expedition. more news ...
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Carry to Camp 1
The group is acclimatizing succesfully to high altitude. Today they made their first trip to Camp 1 (aprox 16000 ft), to carry their gear, food and gas. Everything is fine up there.
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They hit base (camp)
Lead guide Wesley, called today from his sat phone, to deliver the good news that the group arrived perfectly well to base camp Plaza Argentina (13800 ft).
They will enjoy an excellent dinner tonight, made by our chef and base camp manager Susy -a guide and climber herself-. Tomorrow will be a rest day for them. Then begins the process of carrying loads to altitude, which is good to acclimatize and to go light in the final push. I am attaching a ...
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Approach to Base Camp
Hello to all. Your relatives, friends, etc who are climbing with us are doing well in their 3 day trek to base camp (Plaza Argentina). They will get to Casa de Piedra (stone hut) today, and to BC tomorrow in the afternoon, according to the plan. Weather is fine, and the forecast says the sun will shine for many days in a row.
The group will get to see some awesome sights of Aconcagua's Polish Glacier today (pic). This glacier was first climbed in...
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The trip is on its way!
The group left the hotel today and headed towards Los Penitentes, a small ski resort 6 km from the trailhead (2700m). Spirits were high. They will start walking tomorrow from Punta de Vacas. Tomorrow, many stoic mules will carry their mountain gear, their asado (barbercue) and even some bottles of Malbec red wine to their fisrt camp, Pampa de Leñas. I will keep you posted!
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28 nov dinner
After long hours on planes, airports and taxis, the 13 climbers and 4 guides of our first Aconcagua expedition of the season got together in Mendoza. We are honored to have them in our city (almost a million habitants, tree.lined streets, sidewalks coffees and vineyards in the country -of course you can also see mountain in the horizon-). We greeted them with big Argentinan steaks and the comfort of the best hotel in town. The guides are very opt...
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First trip of the season is getting ready!
The Guides and AP staff are already in Mendoza packing and getting all ready for the first Aconcagua expedition of the season, Our Nov 28th Ameghino Valley and Upper Guanacos Trip, scheduled to depart in a few days. Clients will be arriving soon to Mendoza as well, Our expedition begins and ends in the City of Mendoza, Argentina. The city of Mendoza is a charming town with pleasant wide avenues, boulevards and parks. Our first step will be to che...
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