Day 5 – At it once more, half carry to 5000
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…
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Day 4 – Basecamp, Rest, and looking toward the Sky.
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…
The Push for the Cumbre (Summit of the Americas)
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…
Aconcagua Details
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 – Make 2017 the Best Year Yet!
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…
Plaza Argentina – Basecamp
A quick update we received from Laura and Logan: Well, after three days of trekking we have arrived at Plaza Argentina (basecamp). Feels like we have already climbed a mountain and yet it still lumes over us. After…
Los Penitentes – Get yer mule loaded
Spotty internet, weren’t sure if this would go through. Last two days in Mendoza were hectic and this coming after running through an airport with 160lbs of gear and pleading with staff to let us on the connecting flight. There…
Taking off – To the top of the bottom
A few hectic last few hours, gear spread across a shag carpeted floor. Logan running from one idea to the next and Laura focused on the list in hand, but with her mind creeping off to the seeming impossibility of…
Laura and Logan’s Aconcagua Adventure
On December 27th, 2016 Laura Mallory and her fiancé Logan Juffermans are flying to South America to climb Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, at 22,838 ft (6,961 metres) in elevation. This will be the last of the Seven Summits for Laura and…
Surviving Winter…with a Smile!
Surviving Winter…with a Smile! The winter weather has officially arrived so this month I thought I would write a short article about surviving winter…with a smile! Now that my family and I are living back in Canada, we’ve had to get…
Fear of the Unknown
Do you Fear the Unknown? This month’s Insight is centred around the Fear of the Unknown, officially referred to as Xenophobia. This fear is present in almost everyone to a certain degree, and in its more severe occurrences an be extremely debilitating,…
The Surprising Link between Exercise and Your Brain
Many people incorrectly associate exercise with feeling exhausted. On one level it would seem to make sense that a purposeful expansion on energy would leave us drained and unable to focus. Surprisingly though, this is far from the truth. In my own life,…