Hola, I am now sitting in an internet cafe in Buenos Aires, enjoying some warm weather and sunshine after the expidition up Aconcagua. It was an awesome experience although I only made it up to camp 3 which was still at a dizzy height of 5970m. From camp 3 you looked out over the valley and mountains below. The summit of Aconcagua was unfortunately still some 1000m above us. Only one person and a guide from our group made it to the summit. Temperatures had plum...

Saturday came and we actually had an early start to the day, as we were booked on an 8am bus from Santiago to Mendoza. The bus trip takes 6-7 hours, however that is if the border crossing gose smoothly. The border crossing actually took around 3 hours. We arrived in Mendoza around the 5pm mark. The bus trip was cheap (around 13 pounds each) and very comfortable. It was a normal size bus but only enough seats for 40 people instead of the normal 52. The seats recli...

Hi once again to everyone, Well am now in Chile, and have just spent the last two days in Santiago. James and I have been discussing our preparition for our climb which is soon to start. This came about after having a rather big night at a night club in Santiago last night with some of the other people from the hostel. Initially we were having a quiet one and were just about to go to bed when someone asked us if we wanted to go out. Unfortunately the word ´...

Hi again, Well I survived carnival!!!!The party for carnival started at 9pm and we arrived home at around 7am, in time for breakfast and then sleep.The party was something else.The samba schools took approximately one hour and 20 minutes to make the journey for the length of the sambadrome.It actually took them about 40 minutes to reach us at the end and then another forty minutes of having everyone go past.Every school had a theme with the wildlife and endager...

Hi again, Well I survived carnival!!!!The party for carnival started at 9pm and we arrived home at around 7am, in time for breakfast and then sleep.The party was something else.The samba schools took approximately one hour and 20 minutes to make the journey for the length of the sambadrome.It actually took them about 40 minutes to reach us at the end and then another forty minutes of having everyone go past.Every school had a theme with the wildlife and endager...