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<\/a>The route to Camp 1 on Aconcagua.<\/p><\/div>\n
A few things to report from Argentina today.\u00c2\u00a0 First is that everyone from Josh Tapp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s group is now on their way home.\u00c2\u00a0 Josh arrives home tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Leandro, one of our great Argentine guides who was working with Josh, is going through a final check of group gear for our next team, led by Peter Anderson, with Leandro and Josh McDowell.\u00c2\u00a0 That group left the States (and South Africa) today and will be rendezvousing in Mendoza tomorrow, the 6th<\/sup>.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, Mike Hamill, leaves tomorrow for Mendoza. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be climbing with a small, custom team via the Horcones Valley route now and then staying to climb with the final IMG team of the season in late January.<\/p>\n Up on the mountain itself, Ty Gimenez called in today.\u00c2\u00a0 Martin Lucero, Peter Adams and he are taking a rest day at base camp today and prepping for their carry to C1 tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather is a bit unsettled but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually just fine for a carry day.<\/p>\n Down further South, like all the way South, Greg Vernovage and his 5 successful Vinson climbers will be making their way to Vinson base camp today.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit of a long walk but not terrible.\u00c2\u00a0 And, when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all been to the summit, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s amazing how easy that walk becomes.\u00c2\u00a0 Once at base camp Vinson, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be a bit of a waiting game.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need reasonable weather to fly over to the Union Glacier camp and then good weather for the IL76 to come in, pick these guys up and get them back to Chile.\u00c2\u00a0 That could happen as early as the 6th<\/sup>.\u00c2\u00a0 Greg will stay in South America and head over to Mendoza.\u00c2\u00a0 He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be leading our\u00c2\u00a0January 20\u00c2\u00a0departure on Aconcagua.\u00c2\u00a0 No rest for the wicked.<\/p>\n Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 5, 2013 A few things to report from Argentina today.\u00c2\u00a0 First is that everyone from Josh Tapp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s group is now on their way home.\u00c2\u00a0 Josh arrives home tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Leandro, one of our great Argentine guides who was working with Josh, is going through a final check of group gear for our next team, led […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aconcagua","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8931,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions\/8931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}