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ANTARCTICA - VINSON [C076] Heading up the fixed lines to high campANTARCTICA - VINSON [C112] The Russians descending back to low campANTARCTICA - VINSON [C190] Summit day viewANTARCTICA - VINSON [C193] Summit day view with 2 climbers barely visibleANTARCTICA - VINSON [C183] ALE guide, Tim, with his client and co-guide, Seth.ANTARCTICA - VINSON [C199] Michael -"I wish Megan would go a little bit faster."ANTARCTICA - VINSON [C297]ANTARCTICA - VINSON [C302] Twin Otter coming to pick us up at base campANTARCTICA - VINSON [C252]ARGENTINA - ACONCAGUA [3000 AR] CLIMBING THE PENITENTES Selected in National Geographic Adventure's Action Photo Contest. Does this look like fun or what?ARGENTINA - ACONCAGUA 2006 - Waiting for SunsetARGENTINA - ACONCAGUA [3003 AR] HIGH CAMP - The night before going to the summmit, everyone was in their tents, sleeping or trying to sleep, when I crawled out of my tent and saw this amazing sunset.ARGENTINA - ACONCAGUA [3004 AR] HIGH CAMP VIEW - Aconcagua, the Sentinel of Stone, is the highest mountain in the western hemisphere. According to some international climbing experts, the 22,841 feet of Aconcagua represent, psychologically and physiologically, several hundred meters more. In the Himalayas there is vegetation until 16,500 feet (5,000 meters). In the central Andes mountains there is only vegetation until 11,500 feet (3500 meters). The relative humidity of the air is very low.ARGENTINA - ACONCAGUA 2006ARGENTINA - ACONCAGUA [3013 AR] TO HIGH CAMPBOLIVIA - HUAYNA POTOSI [3015 BO] Do I really want to climb a mountain with a cemetary in the foreground? Huayna Potosi is roughly fifteen miles due north of La Paz, which makes this mountain the most popular climb in Bolivia. The normal ascent route is a fairly straightforward but challenging glacier climb, with some crevasses and a steep climb to the summit.BOLIVIA - ILLIMANI [3016 BO] 3 CLIMBERS DESCENDING ILLIMANI - Two young and very fit Danish guys with no prior acclimatization and little climbing experience hired a Bolivian guide to climb 21,201 foot Illimani. They were hours behind us (we were well acclimatized) and later told me they were vomiting on the summit (glad I missed that). Here they are descending into a dangerous area. They made it safely down.BOLIVIA - PEQUENO ALPAMAYO [3018 BO] Pequeno Alpamayo is 17,618 feet high (5,370 meters).
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ANTARCTICA - VINSON [C076] Heading up the fixed lines to high camp



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