Trip Reports

Aconcagua 2003/04 season

Summit of Mt Aconcagua, February 2010
Trip Report

Written by Leader, March 2004

We ran six expeditions to Aconcagua this season, between 14 December ’03 and 2 March ’04. On five out of six expeditions team members reached the summit. Overall, the weather was pretty typical, with some groups having to sit out cold and windy weather at camp 2 (5,200m), before moving up to Berlin camps (5,800m), where temperatures of –20 degrees C were recorded. Our last expedition descended from high camp in cold, snowy conditions after two nights with the weather deterioating. Following the feedback from our leaders this year, we have decided to up-grade Aconcagua to 1C to more accurately convey the physical and mental challenge of climbing Aconcagua. Despite the low technical demands of the Horcones route, the experience of climbing Aconcagua is of a mountaineering expedition and not a trek. Past experience shows that team members with previous experience beyond, for example, an ascent of Kilimanjaro, enjoy more success on Aconcagua.

Tom Briggs, Jagged Globe« | »

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