Itinerary of the Swedish Aconcagua Expedition 1995/96

      Below you can see what we did each day, how long we stayed in each camp and an approximation on how long it took us to walk between them.

      The information is organized in a table. If your browser is unable to parse tables (like w3 for Emacs), I'm sorry... try to download the html-source, it will be more readable than the unformatted table.


      Date Activity Dest.
      altitude
      Time
      7th dec Leaving Sweden (Jonas, Björn, Micke and Bojan)
      8th dec Arrival in Santiago 500m 17h
      Bus to Puente del Inca 2700m 5h
      9th dec Car to Ranger Station 2900m 10m
      Trek to Confluencia 3300m 5h
      10th dec Sightseeing Trek without loads to Plaza Francia, back to Confluencia to sleep.
      Björn and Jonas returned at 4000m
      4500m 10h
      11th dec Rest at Confluencia
      12th dec Trek to Camp Durri 3800m 5h
      13th dec Trek to Plaza de Mulas / Base Camp 4200m 5h
      14th dec Rest in Base Camp, short trip to the hotel
      15th dec Rest in Base Camp
      16th dec All but Jonas: Sightseeing climb without loads to Camp Canada 4800m 2h
      Martin: Sightseeing to Nido de Condores 5400m
      17th dec Moving loads to Camp Canada 4800m 2-3h
      18th dec Rest in Base Camp
      19th dec Climb to Camp Canada 4800m 2-3h
      All but Jonas: Moving loads to Nido de Condores 5400m 3h
      20th dec Climb to Nido de Condores 5400m 4h
      All but Micke & Bojan: Moving loads to Berlin Huts 5900m 2.5h
      21st dec Björn, Micke & Bojan: Climb to Summit and back to Nido 6959m 19-26h
      Martin, Jonas & Ragge: Climb to Berlin Huts 5900m 2h
      22nd dec Björn, Micke & Bojan: Rest in Nido de Condores
      Martin & Ragge: Climb to Summit and back to Berlin 6959m 12h30m
      Jonas: Climb to Independencia and back to Berlin 6546m 9h30m
      23rd dec Martin, Ragge, Jonas: Climb (down) to Nido de Condores 5400m 45m
      all: Climb (down) to Plaza de Mulas 4200m 2-3h
      24th dec All but Jonas: Trek to Confluencia 3300m 7h
      Jonas: Trek to Puente del Inca 2750m 12h
      25th dec All but Jonas: Trek to Ranger station 2900m 2-3h
      Car to Puente del Inca 2750m 10m
      Jonas: A nice bath in the hot spring (30-35C) in Puente del Inca 45m

      This page was updated 21-Mar-96 15:48