Aconcagua 2018-2019

Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina:

Hello, 7  Summits!!!!  I wish everyone a happy New Year on behalf of the Las heros team! Today we all moved to the Plaza de Mulas, in our base camp.  Our staff Anechka, Andrey and Valery have already prepared everything for the holiday!!! Hurrah!!!

Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina:

 Hello, 7 Summits Club! We've finally gone to the mountains! Today our base is a small ski resort of Penitentes, at a height of 2700 meters above sea level. Having reached this place, we prepared our simple belongings for transportation on mules, and went for acclimatization. The whole group went to the height of 3100. When I looked back at the group, goosebumps ran on the skin: after all, such a detachment can capture some medieval city!

Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina:

 Aloja, 7 Summits!!!! All members of the group “Los Heros” gathered in the capital of Argentine winemaking! Finally, all the luggage got to Mendoza after the participants, paid and received permits for the mountain, purchased products and resolved other domestic issues. Tomorrow we will move to the mountains together! Wish us luck!

Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of  the 7 Summits Club:

Four members and one guide of the 7 Summits Club climbed to the top of Aconcagua! There was no one else on the mountain that day. The climb took 24 hours and the locals called us crazy.

Victor Ershov, guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina:

Hello! Justified the name (Double Victor - that is a Double Victory!) and today at 14.15 we stood at the top of Aconcagua - one of the first this season in general and the first from the Russian camp of the 7 Summits! The ascent took place in difficult conditions - in the morning and at night there was a strong wind with small grains, then for a few hours it spread and was relatively warm. And on the descent we were covered with a thunderstorm with fog – we were a little beat static.  There were four forecasts, which I compared before the ascent - none was justified! But this did not prevent us to successfully ascend and no less successfully descend immediately from the top to the base camp of Plaza de Mulas! Season's open! Hurray!

Andrey Berezin, Guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina:

Today, a group named as a “Gypsy camp” leaves, but not in the sky, but for acclimatization overnight in the camp Nido de Condores. Yesterday there was a day of rest, so we could gain strength. Tomorrow at evening, we are scheduled to return to the base Camp of the Plaza de Mulas.  Your guides: Kotlyar, Berezin, Miasoedov.

Guide the 7 Summits Club Victor Ershov:

Greetings from the group "W"!  We reached 5800, then went down to the base camp  Placa de Mulas.  We are now resting one day and tomorrow we go back up the slopes  of Aconcagua, already with an eye to the top!

 Vladimir Kotlyar, a Guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina:

 Hello dears!!!! For two days we have accumulated a lot of photos and emotions!!! Group  is worthy of overcoming difficulties and gaining kilometers in height! Separately I want to note our girls!!!! They are beautiful and not inferior to men!

Vladimir Kotlyar, a Guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina:

Good morning , 7 Summits!!! Our “Gypsy camp” and finally got to the mountains! Yesterday we came to the village of Penitentes, checked equipment, handed over the bags and boxes with provisions for loading on the mules, and then went for a walk in the surrounding hills. We went to a height of 3000 meters, it was a nice walk. Today we go further, and for couple of days we will be off-line . All, for a while!

Vladimir Kotlyar, a guide of the 7 Summits Club from Argentina: Hello, 7 summits! Finally, the preparation for the season is over and the first group flew to us in Mendoza.   The group consists of eleven members and there's four muses, four fairies of  Aconcagua!!! Luda, Zhenya, Nastya, Sasha! Men, too, as the selection - a miracle heroes!!! Well, we will hope for the weather, because such a stellar team  is simply obliged to climb to the top! Let's hope that the mountain going to let us up!!!!

A team of our Aconcagua Guides have completed their work in Santiago and are moving to Argentina.  The group was divided into two parts: Ershovs and Berezin go by bus straight to Mendoza. Kotlyar and David go by lorry with camp equipment in Penitentes. All things from a depot was dismantled, purchased a generator for lighting the camp. This season we will organize a special "Russian camp" for several consecutive groups of  the 7 Summits Club.