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Aconcagua Expedition Dispatch

January 23, 2014 – Moving into Camp 2, Nido de Condores

It’s Thursday afternoon and we have moved into our Camp 2, Nido de Condores 5,580 m (18,200ft). This is really high, for those of you who follow our expeditions or have been on them I will try to put in into perspective; we are virtually on the summit of Mount Elbrus now. We’ve moved in and we will be camping here for a couple of nights now. Camp 1 on Mount Everest is not much higher than where we are now. The team is doing great. We’ve got our tents all set up. Leila is just circulating now and making sure that everybody is okay and taking some oxygen saturation levels. I am confident our team is good. But we are going to make sure before we go ahead. We are cozy, everyone here is in their mountain tents and everybody seems smug and happy.

But it is windy, just as the forecast had been saying; we know we saw at least 60-70 km gusts today. We have Guilherme our weather forecaster in Brazil who has been generating weather reports for us from a number of sources and has been sending us updates about the days ahead. We are also consistently receiving updates from the office about the weather. We will judge our summit attempt based on how the group is acclimatizing and our weather reports as we attempt to climb the highest peak in the western hemisphere, Aconcagua.

Arriving at Nido de Condores, Camp 2 at 5,580m (18,200ft)

Arriving at Nido de Condores, Camp 2 at 5,580m (18,200ft)

Our home for the next two nights

Our home for the next two nights

A beautiful sunset over Nido de Condores

A beautiful sunset over Nido de Condores