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Day
1 MENDOZA : Welcome. We’ll receive you
at Mendoza City (airport or bus station) and then we’ll
take you to your hotel. Lodging. Later, we’ll check
your personal equipment. Afterwards we will have a Welcome
Dinner in a typical Argentinean restaurant.
Day
2 MENDOZA / PENITENTES: At 8:30, we’ll
take you from your Hotel to the Natural Resource Office to
get Climbing Permission (this will be the responsibility of
each climber). After that we leave for Penitentes. Lodging
in hotel or apartment. Organization of gear and distribution
of weight. Dinner.
Day
3 PENITENTES / PAMPA DE LEÑAS: After
breakfast we’ll go to send our heavy equipment on mules.
Then, we will continue to the Quebrada de Vacas. We will continue
slowly until Pampa de Leñas, where we’ll camp.
Dinner.
Day
4 PAMPA DE LEÑAS / PIEDRA GRANDE: Breakfast.
We will continue until Piedra Grande, where we’ll camp.
Dinner.
Day
5 PIEDRA GRANDE / PLAZA ARGENTINA: Breakfast
and after leaving the camp, we’ll hike to Plaza Argentina
(4.300 mts.). When arriving we’ll construct our base
camp. Dinner.
Day
6 PLAZA ARGENTINA: Free day to rest. Full
board.
Day 7 PLAZA ARGENTINA:
Free day to rest or carry supples. Full board.
Day
8 PLAZA ARGENTINA: Free day to rest or carry
supplies. Full board.
Day 9 PLAZA ARGENTINA / 1st. CAMP :
Breakfast, we’ll start climb and will take the first
night in Camp 1 at 4.800 mts high. We make high camp. Dinner.
Day 10 1st. CAMP / 2nd, CAMP:
Breakfast. Continue slowly to Camp 2 (5.400 mts.), on the
way we will be able to see almost the whole route that we’ll
take in the subsequent days. Make the 2nd. high camp.
Day
11 2nd. CAMP / BERLIN (o PLAZA COLERA):
Taking into account the accommodation availability we'll find
in Berlin, the climber’s physical condition and the
weather, we’ll stop in this camp located between 5.900
and 6.000 mts. high.
Day
12 BERLIN / CUMBRE / BERLIN:
The BIG DAY has come! we will leave the camp
early in the morning and make good time to conquest our objective,
the ACONCAGUA SUMMIT. The time table to arrive
at the summit is at 1 a.m. Then we’ll return to Berlin.
Day
13 BERLIN / PLAZA ARGENTINA:
Breakfast. Return to Plaza de Argentina and then we’ll
organize our gear to descend next day until Pampa de Leñas.
Day
14 PLAZA ARGENTINA / PAMPA DE LEÑAS:
Breakfast, we will go to Pampa de Leñas where will
camp. Dinner.
Day
15 PAMPA DE LEÑAS / PENITENTES:
Retun to the route. The van will be waiting us at the same
place that our adventure started. Lodging and dinner in Penitentes.
Day
16 PENITENTES / MENDOZA: After breakfast,
we’ll come back to Mendoza. Lodging and farewell dinner.
Day
17 MENDOZA:Transfer to the Airport or bus-station.
Farewell, until the next challenge.
NOTE:
Two extra days are considered in case of climatic changes.
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