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| Brad Marshall | Route Climbed: False Polish Traverse Date Climbed: Dec 28, 2005 | |
| Climbed the False Polish Traverse with my wife but did not reach the summit. Met a lot of great people Walt, William Marler, Laurie Skreslet, Dave from Boston, Jon from Germany, Glen from Norway and Miguel and Pinky from Inka. We got invited to their camp on New Year's Eve. Great times, great people and great memories of the adventure of a lifetime. | |
| Posted Mar 15, 2006 12:21 am | ||
| Tomasz Jazwinski | Ruta normal  Date Climbed: Feb 14, 2006 | |
| Going out of Berlin Camp on 4 a.m, on the summit on about 2 p.m. Good conditions in the night, light moonlight, no wind. During the day more clouds and wind, from the summit very poor view. During the descent strong snow and wind, problems to find the way back. Return to Berlin camp on 7 p.m. | |
| Posted Mar 10, 2006 2:52 pm | ||
| incrediblesnowman | Falso Polacos Date Climbed: Feb 15, 2006 | |
| Me and my friend Martin broke the trail all the way ,from Campo 2 in 20 cm fresh snow, to the summit. The night climb was magical but as soon as the sun came up the weather deteriorated gradually. It erupted in a blizzard later in the afternoon. The expedition was a success due to 3 fantastic climbing partners in Martin Adserballe (Tibet veteran cyclist from DK), Geoffrey Stanford (Everest and Himalaya veteran) and Tom Clowes (Everest, Ama Dablam and Everest soon again :-) ). Thank you Dagmar for the Pizzas in Plaza Argentina (F.G. Exp.) | |
| Posted Feb 21, 2006 1:44 pm | ||
| MarieP | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: January, 2006 | |
| Very beautiful sunrises and very noisy base camp. | |
| Posted Feb 8, 2006 9:56 am | ||
| Alpine72 | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: Feb 1 2006 | |
| Reached the summit under light winds and good temps after a blustery cold start. Took about 12hrs return from Calero, slow, yes but spent about an hour or more resting in a snow field on the way down below Indepencia. | |
| Posted Feb 5, 2006 4:35 pm | ||
| Gremo | Route Climbed: Falso de los Polacos Date Climbed: January 23 2006 | |
| I left C2 at 06:30 and walked in knee high snow all the way to the summit. Got there at 12:05. It was a beautiful day with almost no wind. Walked down to Plaza Argentina in the evening and enjoyed a pizza. A great day! | |
| Posted Feb 1, 2006 2:44 pm | ||
| Ario | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: 26 january 2006 | |
| 100% of the trail was snow covered - sunny day, no wind. left Berlin at 7:10 and reached the summit at 14:40. Great views and great experience. | |
| Posted Jan 29, 2006 2:56 pm | ||
| clicknclimb | Route Climbed: Variation of Polish Glacier Route Date Climbed: 12 January 2006 | |
| Zigzaging up the middle of the glacier takes WAY to long. 14.5 hours to the summit, 5 hours down. Perfect weather, not much wind, but a bit chilly. Reached the summit with my partner, Vaughn, and 4 guys from Norway, thanks for the motivation, guys! | ||
| Posted Jan 27, 2006 12:16 am | ||
| rdesota | Route Climbed: False Polish Date Climbed: January 11, 2006 | |
| A long walk, nice day but fairly crowded. | |
| Posted Jan 25, 2006 10:15 am | ||
| johan | Route Climbed: Normal route Date Climbed: 18 Januray 2006 Date Climbed: Jan 18, 2006 | |
| Hola todos! Reached the top after been waiting 7 days in Nido de Condores before good weather. Had fresh snow on the way up. Full story: http://www.aconcagua.inc.se More pictures can be found here: http://cern.ch/aconcagua Cheers, Johan PS. My own pictures are now online: http://www.cern.ch/johan.karlsson/aconcagua | |
| Posted Jan 21, 2006 8:35 am | ||
| William Marler | Route Climbed: False Polish Date Climbed: January 10th, 2006 | |
| Very good day. Tough slogging at the end due to the dry conditions at the top sections. Very strong team. Ted, Peter, Beverly, Guy, and Laurie. All at the top together. | |
| Posted Jan 15, 2006 7:14 am | ||
| Andinistaloco | Route Climbed: False Polish Date Climbed: January 2006 | |
| Unbelievably high winds up top made this a fairly miserable summit day, but the days getting to the peak and up to Camp 2 were mostly nice and the views coming in were incredible! Met some great folks on the mountain - and lost all their addresses when the mule carrying my gear drowned in the Vacas river.... | |
| Posted Jan 14, 2006 3:06 pm | ||
| edl | Route Climbed: Guanacos Valley Date Climbed: Dec. 28th, 2005 | |
| Summited on day 15. Excellent weather on summit day. I highly recommend this route, much cleaner and more remote than the more common routes. We never saw other people until high camp. | ||
| Posted Jan 12, 2006 11:58 pm | ||
| benjamingray | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: December 2005 | |
| Started at the ranger station near Penitentes on December 7th and made the summit on December 17th. Had good luck with the weather. | |
| Posted Dec 27, 2005 6:59 pm | ||
| Alpinist | Route Climbed: Normal Route Date Climbed: December 15, 2005 Date Climbed: Dec 15, 2005 | |
| Peak Freak and I had intended to take the Polish traverse route, but Plaza Argentina was not open yet due to an avalanche along the mule trail. So the Normal Route was the only viable option for us. It took 10 hours to summit from high camp at Colera (5850 meters), and 3 hours to return to camp. I met several new friends from SP during the trip. Corax, Nadios and their team from Sweden summited on the same day as I did. (What a great group of people!). Tom and Jim from Denver also made their summit bid on the same day. And of course, my climbing partner Peak Freak. Thanks for the comradery! Thanks also to Ken from Texas for providing us with additional fuel at high camp following his successful summit attempt and descent. Trip Report | |
| Posted Dec 19, 2005 7:44 am | ||
| Uwe Kraus | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: February 2000 | |
| From 19th January 2000 to 28th February 2000 I spent my holiday in South America with the intention of climbing Aconcagua. Altogether I was 41 day away. To climb Aconcagua it took 24 days (including journey there and the return trip to Santiago de Chile). Therefore I didn't limit the time, however, I didn't like to spend all 5 weeks at Aconcagua. For the rest of time I didn't have a fixed program. Depending on my frame of mind another 6000 m peak would have been a possibility. An alternative would have been some pleasant days. | |
| Posted Dec 8, 2005 3:53 pm | ||
| dkmayhew | Route Climbed: Polish Traverse Date Climbed: Feb,2002 | |
| Had a great experience. Was very lucky with weather and only had one day of snow when at high camp at 19,000. Summit day was perfect with no wind, it was actually to hot for me. It is sad to see people do stupid things on a mountain.They end up getting hurt, or worse. This also puts the climbers around them who end up helping at risk. | |
| Posted Nov 13, 2005 9:20 pm | ||
| MikeW | Route Climbed: Polish Glacier Traverse Date Climbed: January 2005 | |
| I climbed with Aymara, a great local company. The Polish Traverse route is a beauty, not too crowded compared with the Normal route. Only 2 camps instead of 3 for the Normal, so a little bit more difficult but very enjoyable. Summit day was a 14 hours day, not too cold (-10c) but windy. Great expedition. | |
| Posted Oct 25, 2005 4:38 pm | ||
| bruno baschung | Route Climbed: vacas route Date Climbed: 23rd January 1993 | |
| Summit reached with a french commercial expedition led by Patrick Behrault and Michel Cormier Jnuary 23rd 1993. We used the wild (and less frequented) vacas route up and down, one of us making with Patrick the polish glacier. We encountered 3 days of viento blanco before our final summit push. Bruno BASCHUNG | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2005 8:04 am | ||
| Bergrot | Route Climbed: False Polish Date Climbed: 26 Dec 2002 | |
| Long walk up in high altitudes. At this time there was a lot of snow in the canaletta which made the last meters easier than usual. -5°C and nearly no wind on the top. Great views of south summit and south face. | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2005 12:05 pm | ||
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