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Travel Blogs from Aconcagua Provincial Park, Argentina
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V kondorim hnizde
Dnesni postup do Nido de Cóndoes (5350 m) nebyl dlouhy ani nijak extra narocny. Nebyt te vecne zateze na zadech.. Po vystupu do sedla prochazime skrz Cambio Pendidente, kde jsou 2 stany. Dale mirnym traverzem podel masivu Aconcaguy. Obcas ...
Campo Cólera (6030 m)
Posledni vystup natezko. Z Colery se uz nejaky nasledujici den pokusime o vrchol. Ve svahu hledam ocima Berlin, nechce se mi tam traverzovat. Je prilis stranou od tech bilych skal ktere kryji Coleru. Dal pokracuju "directisimou", lepe receno ...
Plaza de Mulas (4200m)
Mame pred sebou cca 8 hodin pochodu a 1000m prevyseni do zakladniho tabora, presto vyrazime az v 10.. Mozna az dve tretiny cesty vedouci soubezne s recistem (v tuto dobu vsak voda tece jen nepatrnym kouskem) jsou rovne nebo mirne zvlnene. Dost dlouha ...
Vanoce v Plaza de Mulas (4200 m)
V podstate odpocinkovy den, lehka priprava a prebalovani veci na dalsi dny. Vecer si davame v jidelnim stanu Campo Baso pivo u 20 cm velkyho vanocniho stromecku. Tak stastne a vesele, pratele! V noci moc nespime, je tu nerizeny ohnostroj respektive volna ...
Plaza Canadá (4950 m)
Finalne sbaleny se bez spechu posunujeme nejprve pres pole snehovych "kapucinu" a dale jiz jen sterkovym svahem do Plaza Canadá. Tady je pusto, jediny clovek zde je nosic, ktery stavi 2 stany pro nemecky par s pruvodcem, kteri dorazi v prubehu dne. Neni ...
V hnizde klid, v Berline mrtvo
Odpocinkovy den. Odpoledne se jdem projit zas kousek vejs. Nakonec jdu uz zas jen s Lukasem. Jde se nam bajecne lehce, zadny problemy takze mijime i Berlin (5930 m) - jsou tu 3 zasnezene drevene nouzove mini pristresky jinak totalne bez stanu. Ani noha.. ...
Vrchol podruhe..
Rano v 5 vyrazili k vrcholu Ivca s Karlem. My po vcerejsim vykonu (a nechutenstvi poradne jist a pit) lezime dlouho ve stanu v Colere (6030m) s unavou a bolesti hlavy ..Mira v 11 bali a zacina sestupovat sam do Plaza de Mulas (4200m), aby mohl zavolat ...
autostop over Andes with hike to Aconcagua!
... we crawled, as the road rised steeply from the sea almost to the height of 3200 meters, where is the border to Argentina and Aconcagua National Park. Here we thanked our truck driver and got off and went on a two-hour trek to see Aconcagua in all ...
La Cumbre / Summit (6962 m)
Po stredecnim vystupu do Camp Colera (6030m) jsme se ve trojici s Mirou a Lukym rozhodli, ze dalsi den zkusime vrchol. Pocasi snad este vydrzi. Kaja s Ivou si daji rest day (a budou nam delat podporu:-) Rano vstavame ve 03:15, vrstvime na sobe ...
Confluencia (3200m)
Rano vyrazim s Mirou a Lukasem o hodinu pozdejc proti planu (Karel s Ivou s namiu nejdou, chteji radsi este dal vyspavat) cca 3 km podel silnice smerem na Chile k brane narodniho parku. Checkujeme se a dostavame pytel na odpadky. Kolem jezera Horcones je ...
Hiking around Aconcagua
Aconcagua is the highest peak in the Americas, measuring at 6962m above sea level. Even though we didn´t climb it, hiking at its base proved difficult due to the high elevation there (3300m) This 3 day hike got top honours for the most expensive hike our ...
Hiking the Andes
... . Stewart did his research and managed to find a guy, Christian, who regularly took people through the Aconcagua Provincial Park for hikes (http://www.andeswind.cl/plantillaingles.html). Unfortunately, this meant crossing the border back into Argentina ...
acclimatize to base camp
... , our guides took us for a day hike to Plaza Francia the following day to take in views of the south side of Aconcagua from 4100m. The walk was fantastic with spectacular scenery through the Horcones lower valley but the altitude began to have effects for ...
cerro bonette
After a well earned rest day it was time to get to work again and continue to prepare for our attempt to conquer Aconcagua. A day trip to the summit of Cerro Bonette was planned in order to take us above 5000m. It was a long and again fabulous day where ...
Summit attempt
So it appeared the weather gods had agreed to let us have a crack at getting to the top of Andes on the 25th of February. Our accimatisation appeared to be on track and we began to move to C1 on the 22nd. Our 3rd trip up to the camp was faster despite ...
long way down
... and infections in a couple of my fingers gave me shooting throbbing pains. A short distance from the final gate of the park, we stopped at a doctor who drained my finger infection without any anaesthetic and kept telling me to just hang in ...
High Mountain "Adventure"
... , including the tow of Uspallata, Lago Potrerillos, La Puente del Inca and, of course, the major drawcard for Mendoza tourism, Cerro Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the world outside of Asia, standing proud at 6962m. I don't really have a lot to ...
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