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Well, could could be him
http://www.alpenplausch.ch/inhalt/galle ... nca12.html
Picture from my friend Roman. the dog accompanied us till Nido.
Cheers! Gert

It looks like the same dog I saw at Nido last year. It was following a woman. I asked her if it was a good idea to bring the dog to such a high barren camp. To that she replied, "It's not my dog. It just followed me here."

There are probably a lot of dogs that look the same, from the same lineage even perhaps.

I saw the same dog at Nido a couple weeks ago.

Is there an altitude record for dogs?

I assume that they're limited to class 3 & below. As for altitude, are their constraints any different than for people?

not that i want to encourage anything.....

Did Aconcagua some years ago. We actually failed on the Guanacos route and went back to Mendoza, got a new permit the same day and went back the next.

Anyway shortly before base camp a dog started to follow us. Once at camp it decided to lay outside our tent. During the evening we could hear it shivering outside our tent, so we took it inside our tent (bad idea). It farted a lot so the smell inside the tent was almost unbearable.

The next day it followed us all the way to Nido before we where finally able to get rid of it. We worried a bit about whether it would actually follow us all the way to the summit. We did not see on summit day until we where halfway up the Canaleta. Both of us where strugling and suffering pretty badly at this point. Suddenly the dog just popped up out of nowhere. It just ran passed us. Here we were strugling and suffering and it passed us like if it was doing a 100 m sprint. I remeber us looking at each other with an expression on our faces that said "what the f..k". Just so unfair.

It is funny that there is a statement on the back side of park ticket that you will have to pay $100 fine if you bring pets to the park.

A dog got to Camp 2 on Everest - South last year or maybe 2005. Anyway that is 21,000' But I am most impressed that he did the Icefall ladders!

In 1990 a dog followed me up to Berlin. Slept in the vestibule of my tent during a storm. Then in the morning quietly left and made his way down to Plaza des Mulas.

He was comforting.