737 Leg 3 Aconcagua - Day 52

At base camp for a rest day. Conditions bad yesterday at camp 2, 50km winds and sub zero temperatures. Cached gear though (a cache is load deposit at a camp in order to split carrying all your gear at once). Have another compulsory medical tonight. Sorting gear as moving up to camp 1 tomorrow to start ascent for summit.

We are moving slow. Good group, easy climbing and I’m acclimatising well. Still very grateful to be here, it’s a beautiful place but I am missing home a little at the moment. Probably because we are going slower than on Antarctica, gives you more time to think. My cameraman Diego is good fun and my ipod is keeping me entertained as always. The wind is brutal, 80km on the summit yesterday and the altitude is serious, makes everything tough. Altitude is probably the toughest thing, I have been drinking 5+ litres a day and eating and resting at altitude always a challenge. I am sleeping like a baby though!