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 […]
