Grajales Expeditions, a mountaineer in the jungle Ulises “Uli” Corvalán is Grajales Expeditions’ Mountain Manager and the “dean” of our guides. He is at ease in the harsh environment of the extreme altitude; he has reached the summit of Mt. Aconcagua more than 50 times and has led clients to the top of Mt. Everest. […]
Climbing a big, long mountain like Aconcagua is a perfect excuse to indulge in a big, long feast of calories after the expedition. After all, climbers spend up to 10.000 calories during summit day. The valleys at the foot of the Andes are well know for its wines, but Mendoza also has a growing gourmet […]
Charles Darwin, the British naturalist and explorer who sailed around the World and wrote “The voyage of the Beagle” and the influential “On the origin of species”, crossed the Andes twice in 1835. Driven by his passion for the mountains, he rode a mule from Santiago de Chile to Mendoza and back, while his ship […]
This Chilean gaucho of legenday strength reached 6.560m in Aconcagua’s first known summit attempt. Güssfeldt, Zurbriggen, FitzGerald; these are well known names, the pioneers of Aconcagua. They have become a part of Aconcagua and they have a place in history and in the field, with glaciers and peaks named after them. But the stories of […]
Some facts about the Central Andes, land of “sixthousands” So you are tent-bound at 5,400m in Mt. Aconcagua. It snows but the wind has calmed down. How cold is it out there, you don`t know; the stove has warmed up the tent, and besides you and your tent-mate are buried in the lofty down of […]
On March 3, at 7.15 PM, TV host and actor Julian Weich and rugbier Ezequiel Baraja stood at the highest point in the continent and waved the Olympic flag. With them were our guides Ulises Corvalán and Guillermo Fuentes, and photographer Pablo Betancourt. They reached the 6,960m summit after a last push of three epic […]
A team of eleven great athletes and personalities -Olympic and Paralympic medalists among them- will set foot in Mt. Aconcagua State Park on Monday. They intend to take the flag to the summit, as part of a project that promotes sports and healthy lifestyle. The project is called “Summit Aconcagua”, and what brings the 11 […]
In December of 1990, a young Austrian climber planted his two tents at the the base of Mt. Aconcagua’s South Face, a lonely place in those days. The mules that carried his cache of food and gear also carried a wooden structure that the arrieros (muleteers) put together in the campsite. The climber was Thomas Bubendorfer, […]
A new mountaineering season has begun in Mt. Aconcagua. The mules have been brought to the mountain from their winter fields; the tents and the domes have been set up in the camps. The “campamenteros” (Aconcagua jargon meaning BC managers and staff) have moved to the “cloth cities” that they call home for three months […]
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