Aconcagua in Argentina is 6692 Meters high, located in Argentina just 15 Kilometers from the Chile border and being the highest mountain in the western hemisphere, earns its inclusion as one of the 7 summits. I’ve been asked by a buddy that I hiked to Mt Everest Base camp if I wanted to join him and climb Aconcagua. After doing some initial research on the mountain, the climbing bug has once again bitten deep.

I just finished hiking the West Coast Trail.  It was fricken awesome.  So glad I did it.  I’ll have a complete report posted on my website in a short while. Update: trip log is complete on my website now, see the previous link. Looking forward to a Carribbean cruise in Febuary of 2005.  Ports include Belize, [...]