Aconcagua .. the mission is on.

Spoke with Rolfe yesterday and all is going well on the mountain.

Unfortunately Paul , Alexander and Lynn have all decided to turn around and head back to Mendoza. They are going to wait for the rest of the group there. They are all OK

The remaining 9 members are doing really well and seem to be pretty strong, Rolfe is fairly confident that they’ll all give the summit attempt a good go!
The weather hasn’t been great on the lower slopes and they’ve had a fair bit of snow. The upper slopes have been kept relatively clear of snow by the strong winds. There are 2 other teams (Canadian and Japanese) who are in front of our group so they’re doing a lot of the ground breaking for us!

The group stayed at camp 1 (5000m) last night and have already stocked camp 2 (5500m) over the last couple of days. They will move up to camp 2 (5500m) today to stay for a couple of days whilst stocking camp 3 (6000m). They plan to have their first summit attempt on the 31st Jan with a good forecast for then. The only issue will be the winds they’re experiencing on the summit giving a wind chill factor of about -45 c but Rolfe is happy at this stage that it won’t prevent them from trying.

We will of course keep you posted.

team 360