November 11, 2010 After acclimatizing at “sea level” (Lake Titicaca = 13,400 ft/4100m) I headed to one of the main goals of the trip, Huayna Potosi (19,974 ft/6088m). It is a great looking mountain! I arrived at Base Camp and set up in the refugio for the night. A great dinner and good night sleep, […]
November 11, 2010 La cumbre!! Just as we knew, the team summited yesterday morning early. Everyone who went to high camp went to the summit. Pretty sweet. Speaking of sweet, the showers much have been, too. A quick hotel night in Puebla was well earned, but today it’s off to the town of Tlachichuca and […]
November 10, 2010 We’ve been following their progress on the SPOT Tracker that George is carrying and it looks like our Mexico Team summitted this morning around 5:30am (PST). It’s not official until everybody is down safely but everything seems to be going as smoothly as George anticipated. We’ll have a full recap after they […]
November 10, 2010 We heard again last evening from IMG partner, George Dunn, leading the November Mexico expedition. Keep that good news coming, George. High camp was established, weather remained perfect and the team was doing well. One member decided he wasn’t quite up for the summit attempt and remained at the Altimoni Hut. Nice […]
November 9, 2010 Another Mexico expedition is well underway. IMG partner, George Dunn, has broken away from our Ashford office to lead another expedition to the fun and sun of Mexico. Assisting him are Austin Shannon and Fernando Posadas. The guides were down in Mexico City late last week doing a bit of last minute […]
November 9, 2010 IMG guide Greg Vernovage reports that he had a nice visit to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca, with a ferry ride out to the Isla del Sol (Sun Island) and a hike to nearly 14000 ft. Today they headed up to Zongo Pass, where they hired some porters, and then hiked up to […]
November 9, 2010 Ang Jangbu reports good news: Ang Passang called just now to inform that everyone is safely down at base camp. Ang Passang and Panuru managed to clear all camps and brought everything down today–they had 3 yaks meet them at the Yak camp below Camp 1. The plan is to pack up […]
November 8, 2010 Mark Allen reports that team members are back down to Camp 2, and some members have descended back down to Camp 1 after the summit day. The weather was good and everyone is safe and sound. The plan is tomorrow for everyone to make it down to Base Camp. We won’t celebrate […]
November 7, 2010 We sent IMG guide Greg Vernovage to Bolivia, on his way down to Ecuador (where he will be leading our November Ecuador climbs). Greg is doing an on-site review of our Bolivia program with our outfitters in La Paz. Right now, though, Greg is acclimatizing at a resort in Copacabana, on the […]
November 7, 2010 IMG guide Mark Allen reports that the climbers successfully reached Camp 2 and they are on track for their summit bid. They said that they did not see the helicopter crash today that has been reported. Apparently the Fishtail Air AS350B3 crashed somewhere on the mountain today, while doing a rescue, but […]
