starting point at Horcones, parc entrance
we're carring all this up?! ok, maybe i've taken too many shoes and cosmetics...
fortunatelly mules will help with the cargo
loooong way throuhg the valley to the middle camping, still fresh and energetic
day 1 - 8km to Campamento Confluenzia
Aconcagua? ok, if you guys go, I go too
reached Confluenzia
Campamento Confluenzia 3400m
day 2, 16km between Confluenzia and Plaza de Mulas
our stuff is dragged along by mules
mules on their way to... guess where?
... to Plaza de Mulas 4300m (claimed to be the second largest basecamp in the world after Everest), spot our orange tent ;)
merde glace
Campamento Canada - 1st camp after Plaza. de Mulas
Canada
Nido de Condores 5500m
for good luck
what's cooking? today for dinner we're having icecream
it's freezing cold here although it probably doesn't look like it
I've enough, let's go back
no photos available above 6000m - was too cold a windy to take out the camera, at 6500m we return.
skiing down Aconcagua
the last 200m down are always the worst
déjà vu
mules know their way perfectly
well, at least most of them
some backpacks will be late...
going back through the same valley
steep and slippery
done
cementary of those who did not make it
fortunately, no our shoes here ...
... nevertheless i killed mine
