December 29, 2010 The team was out the hotel door at 5:30 this morning. It takes about 3 hours to get everyone picked up, to the airport and through security and settled in on the IL76. Then, it’s 4 hours in the air to the new ice runway at the Union Glacier. The adventure begins. […]
December 28, 2010 Nice to report that Greg Vernovage and team of 6 climbers has arrived in Punta and with all their gear. Shopping is complete, packing is complete, their briefing is complete and they will be loading the big Russian cargo jet, an IL76, with gear this afternoon. Plan is for a flight to […]
December 25, 2010 While you enjoy your Christmas cocoa in front of your fireplace we’ve got lots of climbers out there enjoying some cocoa of their own around the stoves and in their tents. Happy Holidays from all of us here at IMG! ___________________________________________ Aconcagua What would most people say to celebrating Christmas at base […]
December 13, 2010 Phil just called in at 11:00 a.m., P.S.T. After days of waiting, the Bird is finally inbound to pick up the group from Union Glacier, and they should be in Punta Arenas tomorrow by 2:00 a.m. All’s well and the weather is holding. Everyone is hustling to change their flights home departing […]
December 10, 2010 Phil Ershler called in at 1:10 p.m. PST time (6:10 p.m. Antarctica time.) The Vinson Team walked down from High Camp today and was flown over to Union Glacier – ALE’s main base camp.  And there they will stay until the weather permits another window for flight, allowing the IL 76 […]
December 9, 2010 10 for 10 on the summit of Vinson! Phil called in at 12:55pm PST today to report that the whole team made the top! Cold and windy but worth the effort! Their next step is to get back to High Camp and then on down to Vinson Base Camp as soon as […]
December 9, 2010 Phil called in last night around Midnight (Antarctica time/7:00pm PST) to report that everybody made it up to High Camp in good form yesterday and will go for the summit today. The plan today was to wake up with the sun, fire up the stoves for a hot drink then hit the […]
December 8, 2010 Phil called in last night to report that after a week, their time at C1 is thankfully coming to a close. Winds yesterday were relatively calm with temps around 0 degrees Fahrenheit, but while it was nice at C1, the winds were estimated at 50+mph up at High Camp forcing the team […]
December 6, 2010 Phil called in this morning at 8:00 PST. All is well at Camp 1, but  the group is still waiting on the winds to die and conditions to improve before moving to high camp. Currently winds are gusting at 35 mph at Camp. Guide Aaron Mainer and some of the group descended […]
December 4, 2010 Vinson Camp 1 checked in Saturday afternoon at 12:30 “Looks like we’re going to be sitting again today – weather’s improving but not enough to warrant going up high. The nice thing is that we have plenty of time and plenty of gas and food here at Camp 1. We also have […]
