ITINERARY-OF-THE-EXPEDITION Aconcagua

Mr.Ali Anser Zaidi Head of Chancery Embassy of Pakisan in Buenos Aires Argentina is presenting a Pakistani Flag to Akbar Syed

Day 01 · MENDOZA – Altitude: 760 mts Meeting with my friend Nacho and another members of the Expedition
Day 02 · Mendoza / Penitentes – Altitude: 2700 mts. and the climbing permit proces Accommodation: Tents – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner


Day 03 · Penitentes to Confluencia – Altitude: 3.368 mDrive to Horcones Park, first view of the Aconcagua. Permit checking by the Rngers and 4 to 5 hours trek to Confluencia
Accommodation: Tents – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 04 · Trek to Plaza de Mulas – Altitude: 4.250 mts.After 8-9 hours trekking through "Playa Ancha" and climbing up through a very steep path, we reach Plaza de Mulas, the biggest base camp in Aconcagua Park.
Accommodation: Tents – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 06 · Rest day at Plaza de Mulas – Altitude: 4.250 mts.The first day in Base Camp is always a rest day and a good occasion to take a bath and explore the local terrain.
Accommodation: Tents – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 07 · Carry equipment and food to Camp 1 – Altitude: 4.900 mts. and come back down to base camp Plaza de MulasAccommodation: Tents – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 08 · Ascent from base camp to Camp 1 – Altitude: 4.900 mts.We move to Camp 1, "Plaza Canada"
.Accommodation:Tents – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 09 · Climb to Camp 2 – Altitude: 5.400 mts.Camp 2 "Nido de Condores" 5.400 m. with a great wive of lots of Mounatains of the Andes range.
Accommodation: Tents – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 10 - Rest day at Nido de Condores

Day 11 · Climb from Camp 2 to Camp 3 – Altitude: 6.000 mts."Camp Colera". After build camp 3 , return to Camp 2 to sleep, .
Accommodation: Tents – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 12 · Summit day – Altitude: 6.962 mts.Thanks God now for the first time the Pakistani flag is on the top of the Americas.It was the most ifficult day of the expedition with a high wind more then 50 km / Hour climbing from the the North Ridge to Independencia Refuge at approximately 6.500 m. Ascend through the "Portezuelo del Viento" , climbing "La Canaleta", and the "Filo del Guanaco", that leads to the summit. The prize is waiting for us, a 360° view and the experience of overcoming, that you only finally understand once you reach it. At the end of this experience, we descend to Camp 3.
Accommodation: Tents – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner



Day 14 · Return to plaza de Mulas Return from Camp 3 to Base Camp. We cleberated the summit with the friends and another climbers at the plaza de Mulas
.Accommodation: Tents – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 15 · Return from base camp to Penitentes and back to Mendoza.We have breakfast and then start the descent from Plaza de Mulas to Penitentes. There was Nacho nad Mariana waiting for us to take us to the hotel in Mendoza City
.Accommodation:Hotel double basis –Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

I have got the visa to Argentina

ACONCAGUA 6962m

Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Americas 6,962 m (22,841 ft). It is located in the Andes Moauntain Range , in the Argentine Provence of Mendoza .

History

The first attempt on Aconcagua by a European was made in 1883 by a party led by the German geologist and explorer Paul Gussefldt . Bribing porters with the story that there was treasure on the mountain, he approached the mountain via the Rio Volcan, making two attempts on the peak by the north-west ridge and reaching an altitude of 6,500 meters (21,300 ft). The route that he prospected is now the normal route up the mountain.

The first recorded ascent was in 1897 on a British expedition led by Edward FitzGerald. The summit was reached by the Swiss guide Matthias Zurbreggin on January 14 and by two other expedition members a few days later.

The youngest person to reach the summit of Aconcagua was Matthew Moniz of Boulder, Colorado. He was 11 years old when he reached the summit on December 16, 2008. The oldest person to climb it was Scott Lewis who reached the summit on November 26, 2007 when he was 87 years old.

Inshallah I will be the first Pakistani on the top Aconcagua ( the roof of the Americas)

About me :)

I am Syed Muhammad Akbar ( Akbar Syed) As a First Pakistan I am Planing to climb (Solo) Mount Aconcagua 6962m via normal route .Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the America. I am departing from Islamabad in first week of January 2012. I will spend almost 13 days in Buenos Aires the Capital of Argentina meeting some friends and will ahead to Mendoza after 20 of January.