The group will have breakfast at the Penitentes hostel and then take a short drive to the Aconcagua Park entrance. Here, the permits are checked by the park rangers and then the trek begins.  It will take them about 4 hours to reach camp Confluencia.  Mules will transport most of their heavy […]

Permits and gear hire sorted.  The group have left the lovely city of Mendoza and are now on the 4 hr bus journey to Penitentes (2700 m) where they will spend the night.  The trek starts tomorrow to Confluencia (3368m).

The group departed O R Tambo for Sao Paulo yesterday on our hopeless local airline SAA – without Molly’s gear bag.  They are now on their way to Buenos Aires and will reach Mendoza this evening.  It seems these days that flying has become more of a challenge than mountain climbing.