January 10 We woke early to avoid the heat of the day. Still 3-4 hours hike before we would reach Punta de Vacas. We took our tent down quickly, (starting to get really good at this) brushed our teeth, packed…
January 9th Questions of when the mules would come and our general exhaustion led to once again a late departure. Almost 12 before we waved goodbye to our glaciated rocky perch at Plaza Argentina. Once again the world seemed quite…
January 8th; Okay we slept in, don’t tell our father’s that we wasted a day relaxing. Up by 9 and somehow dragged together our camp into our packs by 11, and on the homeward journey. Both of us had slept…
January 7th I slept on and off restless for this day to come. I was worried that we might have to turn back part way from exhaustion or symptoms of HACE (high altitude cerebral edema) or HAPE (high altitude pulmonary…
January 6, 2017 All that night and day before I had been tossing around in my mind what to do. We still had a lot of elevation and didn’t want to push it, but at the same time this could…
January 5th. I guess we were getting lazy, or had been working to hard with very little oxygen to breath. For some reason I had thought a rest day at 5000m would be good for our bodies and Laura had…
January 4th. Opting to charge ahead of the other three groups we had been climbing with to this point we skipped their rest day and and headed for the higher camp for good. A gravel pad 800m higher than the…
January 3rd. We had ‘missed’ New Years on the walk in, falling asleep at 8. Missed the one firework lit at basecamp. After some rest we now set to hike up to Camp 1, a higher crest of flattish land…
Sorry about the delay. We will continue to attempt to update this with two days at a time over the next few days. When we last touched base we mentioned that we had spent 3 days hiking in toward the…
With a bloated belly filled with the best 6-inch ham-cheese burger, fries, beer, and coke we sat in the sun, listening to 90’s rock feeling nearly human again, except that our clothes reeked (something like the Lipton’s soup mix we…
Info from Mom (Barbara Mallory): The communication from the mountain is poor even in today’s technical society so I thought I would update you on what we think is happening according to Dan and Adam’s climb in 2000 and what…
Happy New Year everyone! I hope this past year has been fruitful and that the upcoming year holds lots of excitement as well. We welcomed in the New Year in a home-made, wood-fired hot tub that my brother and I…
