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THE GERMAN TEAM - ACONCAGUA, ARGENTINA [3011 AR] This team was a day ahead of us. They all summitted with the exception of two Belgians who were severely sunburned because they didn't wear sunscreen high on the mountain.HIGH CAMP - ACONCAGUA, ARGENTINA [3003 AR] 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.HIGH CAMP VIEW - ACONCAGUA, ARGENTINA [3004 AR] 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.3 CLIMBERS DESCENDING ILLIMANI - BOLIVIA [3016 BO] 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.ILLIMANI HIGH CAMP - BOLIVIA [3019 BO]HUAYNA POTOSI - BOLIVIA [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.HUAYNA POTOSI - BOLIVIA [3036 BO] Rodrigo on the 19.996 foot (6094 meter) summit, "Can you hear me now"?OUR TRACKS UP PEQUENO ALPAMAYO - BOLIVIA [3018 BO] Pequeno Alpamayo is 17,618 feet high (5,370 meters).PEQUENO ALPAMAYO MINUTES LATER - BOLIVIA [3026 BO] The weather changes fast in the mountains.COTOPAXI - ECUADOR [3530 EC] Cotopaxi is Ecuador's highest active volcano at 19,388 feet and is located in the Eastern Cordillera. It is a stratovolcano (very similar to Mt. Fuji or Mt Shasta) with an almost perfectly symmetrical cone, rising from a highland plain of 3800 meters and covered by a glacier starting at a height of 5000 meters. It's a moderate glacier walk with a short steeper section close to the top.COTOPAXI'S CRATER - ECUADOR [3531 EC] If reaching the summit isn't enough, seeing this crater from the top is!TOCLLARAJU HIGH CAMP - PERU This beautiful photo of Tocllaraju was taken by fellow climber, Daniel Stott. We reached the summits of three mountain peaks in the Cordillera Blanca, located in the Ancash region of Peru, about 400km to the northeast of Lima - Urus (17,880ft / 5,450m), Ishinka (18,143ft / 5,530m) and the mountain shown here, Tocllaraju (19,790ft / 6,032m).HIGH IN PERU - This photo of me was taken by fellow-climber and photographer, David Furst.PERU [3040 PE]PERU [3041 PE]VAL - CLIMBING HIGH IN PERU [3042 PE]NEVADO JUNCAL - CHILE [NJC_0060] Hiking to camp 1. Nevado Juncal is located in Chile, 50 miles south of Aconcagua. We climbed the heavily glaciated north side.NEVADO JUNCAL - CHILE [NJC_0069]
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THE GERMAN TEAM - ACONCAGUA, ARGENTINA [3011 AR] This team was a day ahead of us. They all summitted with the exception of two Belgians who were severely sunburned because they didn't wear sunscreen high on the mountain.



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