Aconcagua: Wedel & Team Summit & return to Camp 3
Hello to our friends and family!
We talked about this as a team yesterday before we went to bed “the possibility exists that we could make it to the top!” But if we knew for sure then my job (as a guide) would be so boring and mountains wouldn’t be that fun for anyone to climb.
You don’t come here because you know you are going to succeed. You come to the mountains because you are open to both - success and failure.
Today some of the team stood on the summit of this beautiful and brutal mountain and some of us turned around. But each one of us was pushed in a different way and most definitely beyond limits we had previously set for ourselves. We endured strong, cold winds from start to finish, learned something about ourselves along the way and are all safely back in our tents at campo 3. I’ll call that a successful day - summit or not.
After such a tough climb, most everyone is snoozing in their tents. Going to 22,841 feet really takes it out of you.
Jack and I will wake everyone up soon for their favorite meal ever, FREEZE DRY (hopefully the last one of this trip) and then we’ll all head straight back to bed to sleep better than we’ve ever slept at 19,600 feet.
Big, big winds are moving in so we’ll get an early start tomorrow on our descent to base camp.
I’m so proud of each person on this team and the courage they had to try something so hard.
RMI Guide Jess Wedel
