I don’t know if I ever mentioned it here, after all I’ve been blogging for close to 5 years; lots of things change in that period, I have this lifelong dream of summiting the “7 summits”.
D and I did Kilimanjaro in 2008 and we were scheduled to climb Denali in June 2010. Late 2009, our guide announced us that he had accepted to go on tour in Afghanistan. I have a lot of respect for him and admire his courage to serve his country for the greater good of the Afghan population. As such, we move our trip to May 2011, which would be in 2 months... Fast track to December 2010, D accepted a managerial position in a new company, thus taking a month vacation isn’t guaranteed and I got diagnosed with cancer- not knowing how severe my condition would be, this expedition was out of the question. Bummer!
Now that I’ve been cleared from my doctors to progressively start training again, the itch of mountaineering and the urge to check another one of the 7 got bigger and bigger each day. That is when we invited B. to our home for dinner and talk climbing. He’s been taking even more courses for guiding and he is now uber qualified. He had been hired to do a private climb of Aconcagua in Argentina. Private climb: One guide, one client = awesome. He promised to come by right after he’d come back to talk, dream and.... PLAN!
That’s right; February 2012 will see us reach the summit of Aconcagua.
At 22,841 feet (6,962 metres), Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside of Asia. Located in western Argentina, near the Chilean border, Aconcagua is one of the "7 Summits" - the highest mountains on each continent and thus part of my dream...
D and I are so stoked about it. We’re about to iron out the equipment details, training climb and overall training schedule. It’s not a super technical mountain (Unless we can do the Polish Glacier route, which I hope will be in good enough conditions to be open).
Anyhow, it’s great to have something like this to look forward to, makes me even happier to have bought that piece of paradise in Canmore where I can look at my mountains training field and be happy.
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