Aconcagua

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• Traveler Profile: Adventurer Noel Hanna

  
  Wandermelon — Authority: 123
  While you’ve been busy eating too much chocolate, sitting on the couch channel surfing, returning gifts, driving relatives to the airport, questioning your mate’s gift giving sensibility, sweeping up pine needles and tossing out soggy leftovers, guess what Noel Hanna has been up (more...)
  1 week ago

• Pune girl climbs highest peak in Antarctica (With Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  By Quaid NajmiMumbai, Dec 26 (IANS) Braving temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius and howling chilly winds, Pune girl Krushnaa Patil successfully scaled Mt. Vinson Massif, the highest peak of Antarctica Tuesday, her family said here Saturday.The feat comes close on the heels of conquering the world’s highest ...
  1 week ago

• Ski Acclimatization on Aconcagua, Part 2

  
  TetonAT.com — Authority: 124
  Randosteve skis with glaciers in the Horcones Valley.The weather forecasts we were getting off of the satellite internet connection at Plaza de Mulas continued to show unsettled weather for the upper elevations of Aconcagua. Unsettled weather means average winds at about 80mph, with stronger gusts, and temps rising ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ski Acclimatization on Aconcagua, Part 1

  
  TetonAT.com — Authority: 124
  Glen Poulsen and Kim Havell on the flanks of Aconcagua.The crew was no doubt excited to get on the snow and the plan was to have a few days skiing and acclimatizing, while we waited for better trends in the weather forecasts which would allow us to move up higher on the mountain. At [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Himalaya 2009 climbing season, Karakoram and Himalaya wrap-up /42/ – Week in Review.

  
  Himalman's Weblog — Authority: 130
  A brand New Year is around the corner and this marks ExWeb’s very last 2009 week-in-review. Instead, the Year in Review has been cut up in sections to be posted each day until the Awards. Check in Monday for the first entry but before that, here goes a fast check of recent stories, a number concerning adventure ...
  3 weeks ago

• (Mis)Adventures on Aconcagua

  
  The Adventure Blog — Authority: 565
  Standing 22,841 feet in height, Aconcagua is the tallest mountain in South America, earning it the distinction of being one of the Seven Summits . Each year, hundreds of climbers make their way to the mountain, looking to reach the summit, and add a big peak to their resume. Were told that this is a non-technical ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thank You…

  
  TetonAT.com — Authority: 124
  Glen Poulsen scopes out a serac in the Horcones Valley of Aconcagua.Working my way back to Jackson today. Man…what a wild last few weeks it’s been. Some of it seems like a lifetime ago, other parts…will live in my memory banks forever. Before I get on with telling the story of Aconcagua and [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Early Season Death on Aconcagua

  
  The Outside Blog — Authority: 587
  The climbing season on the highest mountain outside the Himalayashas just begun and the first death has already occurred. Americanclimber, Michel Miniesll died during his descent. The 39 year-old climber had attempted the summit twice and on histhird attempt was returning via the Polish Glacier, normally atechnical ...
  4 weeks ago

• base camp. plaza argentina

  
  Norma Bastidas — Authority: 106
  just a quick update. i am in base camp aconcagua, plaza argentina. we climb to camp 1 yesterday to bring gear before coming back to base camp as part of acclimatizing, climb high, sleep low. i had a terrible day, i barely made it, i was the only one od the team that didn´t hire a porter and i was carring 18k of gear. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Major toxic compounds detected on America’s highest mountain

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Berlin, December 8 (ANI): An international team of scientists has detected low concentrations of toxic, carcinogenic chlorine compounds known as Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in samples taken from America’s highest mountain in the Andes. The snow samples taken at an altitude of 6200 metres on Aconcagua Mountain ...
  4 weeks ago

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