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| richardpattison | New route - Aussie expedition  Date Climbed: Dec 29, 2008 | |
| Climbed a new route on the north east side with an Aussie expedition (led by Duncan Chessell - DCXP). We made first ascents of Mt Besch and an unnamed peak near Mt Chapman, then made the first journey up the lower Dater and then Hinckley glaciers before ascending a new route on Vinson, taking a ridge of about alpine grade AD to the Vinson-Shinn col, then joining the normal route near the final summit ridge. Also made a first ascent of Mt Segers true summit on the way back to the landing/pick-up zone. We had a wonderful 4 weeks exploring and a fairly good 2 weeks waiting for good weather to fly home! :o) | |
| Posted Jun 7, 2009 9:35 am | ||
| EcuadorSinLimites | The last of My Seven Summits Date Climbed: Jan 17, 2009 | |
| Eight years of diligent work and endless adventure reached their final success! I reached the highest point of Antarctica on January, 17th 2009, 3.48pm local time, thereby completing my quest for the Seven Summits. What a unique feeling of achievement! A great experience overall. Fit and knowledgeable partners and guides, good weather and snow conditions. Unfortunately, summit day was cloudy and windy, preventing us to appreciate the view from the highest point of the Blue Continent. Impecable logistics and service ANI! Keep up the great work and your dedication to keeping Vinson a pristine mountain! Patricio Crausaz Quito, Ecuador. | ||
| Posted Jan 28, 2009 9:32 pm | ||
| bruno baschung | normal route Date Climbed: Jan 17, 2009 | |
| I climbed Mt Vinson Jan 17th via normal route (branscom glacier) with 6 other climbers and 4 guides from an ALE/ANI led expedition. Temperature at the top was close to -33 °c, with wind gusting around 20 km/h. It took us 4 days (including one rest day at low camp° to reach the top and one to go down. A fantastic expereience for me, being my 5th of the seven summit, and an amazing discovery of antarctica. Difficulties are limited, but cold has to be taken very seriously especially if bad weather occurs; be mentally prepared to face several days blocked / stuck for instance at high camp. The fixed ropes help a lot, 40 to 45 ° in some place, quite long. It took us 4 hrs from V BC to low camp, 5 hrs or so to high camp, and 6h45 from high camp to summit, 2h30 to go down (slowly). It's likely that temperature in january might be slightly higher than end of november. I stronlgy recommend a climb with ALE/ANI guide because ALE masters wonderfully all the logistics on the mountain (tents set up,excellent food carried up or stored high - which might save excessive days of carry between low and higfh camp, excellent guide / client ratio, very good infrastructure in Patriot Hills, and warm welcome, so in my view i strongly recommend booking your climb by then. They take great care about having a safe and enjoyable climb. Bravo for doing such a great job, also by helping keep this mountain pristine and safe. Bruno baschung | ||
| Posted Jan 25, 2009 10:23 am | ||
| TRP | Since 2004 Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2004 | |
| I have summitted Vinson Massif 11 times, including 1 FA and a ski descent. I am going again this year and it still is exciting. Antarctica is an incredible place, the vista's are out of this world, the temps are imvigorating and the travel supurb. | |
| Posted Dec 1, 2008 1:14 am | ||
| Noelle | Ccccold Date Climbed: Dec 16, 2007 | |
| Summited a freezing Mt. Vinson after spending 8 days stuck in a storm at the new high camp, which we dubbed Repeater Camp. 2700 ft of vertical fixed line to the new camp was the new route instead of going up the glacier and the headwall. New route is hairy. Dave Hahn had to bring us more rations meeting us halfway on a stormy day and risking his own life. Teams of Austrians went down and the Swiss ended up with frostbite and a broken rib or two goin down the fixed line in the storm. We summited on day 9 when the sun decided to come out. | |
| Posted Mar 27, 2008 11:01 am | ||
| The edge | Vinson Date Climbed: Dec 28, 2007 | |
| What an incredible experience.... Antarctica... WOW.... I was pretty lucky to be able to get a one in a lifetime chance to explore the Last continent. And what an experience it has been.... Vinson Massif summit @ 16:24 Chilean time on dec 28th 2007... Thanks a lot for the lifelong memories... | |
| Posted Jan 8, 2008 11:39 am | ||
| thenewpassion | Vinson Date Climbed: Dec 3, 2005 | |
| This beautiful mountain provided our expedition with some weather challenges, but on Summit Day blessed us with expectionally good weather. The summit was achieved after 12 days and a 2 day ascent to catch our plane off the ice. | |
| Posted Dec 10, 2006 7:32 am | ||
| MikeW | Normal Route Date Climbed: Jan 19, 2006 | |
| A great experience to be able to climb in Antarctica. We had great weather for almost the whole climb and did summit with nice views of the surrounding mountains but a bit windy. We used the normal route with 2 camps (nobody uses 3 camps nowadays because of environmental concerns). Should have brought my skis for basecamp skiing, we got stuck there for 6 days because of clouds (we couldn't bring the Twin Otter planes in). | |
| Posted Feb 28, 2006 3:35 pm | ||
| 7summits | Route Climbed: Normal route, Branscomb Glacier Date Climbed: 6th January 2006 | |
| Finally the 7th summit myself ;-) Amazingly beautiful place, it was such an honour to spend time on the lost continent. Can't wait to take more clients up there next season. We took up 11 people to the summit this year, a summit much harder than anticipated and underestimated by many. Blowing wind and snow on teh summit, but a very enjoyable climb overall. Antarctica is a place worth preserving. Climb safe, Harry Kikstra, 7summits.com | |
| Posted Jan 18, 2006 12:08 am | ||
| sutcliffe996 | Route Climbed: standard route Date Climbed: nov/dec. 2004 | |
| superb climb, thanks again to IMG, a great outfit. A good strong team, well done lads. Alistair Sutcliffe. | |
| Posted Dec 21, 2004 7:41 am | ||
| TM | Route Climbed: Branscomb glacier Date Climbed: January 17 and 18, 2003 | |
| An incredible trip! A unique, beautiful place. I was fortunate to summit twice as a guide, one day up the easier but more scenic ridge on climber's left, the next day via the steeper but more direct snow route on climbers' right, then down the left ridge. We were in Patriot Hills for four days before getting a window to fly out to the mountain, then had a few days of beautiful weather before getting pinned down by a three day storm with winds to 65 mph. A hard day in wind moving up to camp III led to two good summit days, on the second of which we descended 9000' to basecamp to avoid missing the plane. Bad weather in Patriot Hills kept the planes on the ground, and allowed for a few of us to ski some powder in Vinson Base, thanks to Christoph. Another week waiting out weather in Patriot Hills culminated in the Ilyushin landing on the ice to cheers. ANI did a superlative job, often under stress, and was staffed by great people who made the trip even more memorable. Good luck to ALE this year! Cheers! | |
| Posted Jan 31, 2003 11:07 am | ||
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