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Day 1 MENDOZA : Welcome.
We’ll receive you at Francisco Gabrielli Airport or
at the bus-station, and then take you to the hotel. 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
responsability 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 / CONFLUENCIA: After
breakfast we'll send all our heavy equipment on mules. Then,
we will continue to the Laguna de Horcones, where we'll check
in with the Park Ranger Station and we'll have our first sight
of the breathtaking ACONCAGUA . We will continue
slowly until Confluencia (3.200 mts.), where we'll camp. Dinner.
Day
4 CONFLUENCIA / PLAZA FRANCIA / CONFLUENCIA: Breakfast.
Trekking to Plaza Francia (4.300 mts.) and return to Confluencia.
Dinner.
Day
5 CONFLUENCIA / PLAZA MULAS: Breakfast and
after leaving the camp, we’ll hike to Plaza de Mulas
(4.400 mts.). When arriving we'll construct our base camp.
Dinner
Day
6 PLAZA DE MULAS: Free day to rest. Full board.
Day
7 PLAZA MULAS: Carry supplies to Plaza Canadá.
Return to Plaza de Mulas. Full board.
Day 8 PLAZA MULAS: Free
day to rest or carry supplies. Full board.
Day 9 PLAZA DE MULAS / PLAZA
CANADA: Breakfast. We'll start the climb
and will stop for the first night in Plaza Canada at 4.800
mts high. We will make high camp .
Day 10 PLAZA CANADA / NIDO DE
CONDORES: Breakfast. Continue slowly to Nido
de Cóndores (5.400 mts.), on the way we will be able
to see almost the whole route that we'll take in the following
days. Setting up camp.
Day 11 NIDO DE CONDORES / BERLIN (o PIEDRAS BLANCAS):
T Taking into account accommodation availability 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 p.m. Then we'll return
to Berlin .
Day 13 BERLIN / PLAZA DE MULAS: Breakfast.
Return to Plaza de Mulas, where we'll be able to enjoy a relaxing
bath and then we'll organize our gear to descend the next
day to Puente del Inca.
Day 14 PLAZA DE MULAS / PENITENTES:
Breakfast, then we'll make our last great effort. Our transportation
will receive us in the Laguna de Horcones. Lodging and dinner.
Day 15 PENITENTES / MENDOZA: After breakfast,
we'll return to Mendoza . Lodging and farewell dinner .
Day 16 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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