Climbing self-reliant and Summiting Aconcagua twice | Part 2

Come and join me on Aconcagua for some time in camp 2, basecamp and two summits! I have to admit that my filming game wasn’t very strong on the summit days, largely due to the dying of my GoPro and phone batteries in the -30C and 50km/h+ winds that I encountered, especially on my first summit day. So, for clarity, here’s a bit of an explanation of what went down on that trip!

I hung out in camp 2 for a few nights before going for “a walk above”, which ended up on the summit. It didn’t take me much more than 5h to get to the summit from C2 and then a few more hours to get back for one more night of acclimatization. The only issue was that I got a bit of nerve damage on my toes because of opting for lighter gear…

After that I hung out in basecamp for about a week, waiting for a weather window. I’d keep on training and exploring, but also resting for my next summit push.

And then off I went: starting around 3:30am from basecamp, making it to the summit around 1pm and then back for afternoon coffee. I had left a deposit in camp 2, where I unfortunately ended up spending over 45min on my way up, trying to get the feeling back to my feet after I had completely lost it along the way. I had a hot water bottle between my feet and wrapped my down jacket over them. There I sat shivering on a rock trying to decide if I should keep pushing or not… When I finally got the feeling back, I knew that the sun would come out in a bit so I decided to continue.

But then my crampon started popping off… It would happen quite a few times in some sketchy spots, forcing me to slow down to properly belay myself with my ice axe in a lot of the steeper sections (I was going for the most direct routes…). There had been quite a few accidents within the past week so I made sure I wouldn’t add to the number. But I kept on going, self-belaying and annoyed at my crampon and finally made it to the summit… Then headed back down and the next day got out of BC, went to Mendoza and then flew to Colorado Springs. That’s pretty much the short version of things :D

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Climbing self-reliant and Summiting Aconcagua twice | Part 2