Climbing Aconcagua Solo- The highest peak outside Himaliya. No guide, no team, no support: No Problem!* What could go wrong? Well it`s me so...
* the tsa broke one of my bags and tore the other
* tsa stole most of my rations and repair tool
* came on with some pox that rendered me deaf and mute when I got to Argentina
*Permit office ripped me off for an extra 40$us
* tried to get all my gear sorted at the hostel before I left to go catch the only bus, but they threw it all in a pile outside my room because they were fumigating for bed bugs, just had to grab everything and jump on a bus.
* Messed up a mule order so I had to ruck 70lbs 17 hours over 2 days ( 5 hours and 12 hours) to base camp. Grueling!
* ran out of food - twice - and had to buy 3 packs of top ramen and a bag of cookies for 25$us. 1000% markup!
* 300m from the summit, the most extreme lightning blizzard causes me to run back.
* All 3 pairs of expensive gloves fail, plus the handwarmers
* Blizzard destroys a lot of my 1000$ tent, filling it with snow and ice while I`m inside.
* crampons broke causing me to fall and go sliding down the mountain, breaking part of my treaking pole to stop myself, adding hours to summit attempt 2 and waisting a lot of energy
* cracked a rib
* strong winds suck glasses off of my face and into the abyss
* became complelty blind for a week from a couple hours of exposure
* got in a fight with an argentine cop
* I was forcefully chopper med-evaced off of the mountain
* I had burns on the inside of my eyelids, my gums, and the inside of my nose, on top of having my face burnt badly. The doctors at base camp actually had to flip my eyelids inside out and scrub them because the backs were like bacon.
* ran from going to argentine hospital
* a shuttle refused to take me to my hotel, so I had to take a cab while I was blind, got back and they were fumigating my room for bedbugs... again!
* devoured by bedbugs anyway, now my arms and legs look like my face : like a honeybaked ham wearing wax lips
* stumbled into the med-evac insurance meeting. maaaybeee didnt pay the 2,000$us they wanted... maaaybeee left argentina and have to add it to the list of places I cant go back to
* leaving argentina got my 1,000$ tent stolen off the bus
What Im saying is: NAILED IT! at that exact moment, I was the highest up person on the planet! 7.5 billion people, and I was the top. VICTORY!
* the tsa broke one of my bags and tore the other
* tsa stole most of my rations and repair tool
* came on with some pox that rendered me deaf and mute when I got to Argentina
*Permit office ripped me off for an extra 40$us
* tried to get all my gear sorted at the hostel before I left to go catch the only bus, but they threw it all in a pile outside my room because they were fumigating for bed bugs, just had to grab everything and jump on a bus.
* Messed up a mule order so I had to ruck 70lbs 17 hours over 2 days ( 5 hours and 12 hours) to base camp. Grueling!
* ran out of food - twice - and had to buy 3 packs of top ramen and a bag of cookies for 25$us. 1000% markup!
* 300m from the summit, the most extreme lightning blizzard causes me to run back.
* All 3 pairs of expensive gloves fail, plus the handwarmers
* Blizzard destroys a lot of my 1000$ tent, filling it with snow and ice while I`m inside.
* crampons broke causing me to fall and go sliding down the mountain, breaking part of my treaking pole to stop myself, adding hours to summit attempt 2 and waisting a lot of energy
* cracked a rib
* strong winds suck glasses off of my face and into the abyss
* became complelty blind for a week from a couple hours of exposure
* got in a fight with an argentine cop
* I was forcefully chopper med-evaced off of the mountain
* I had burns on the inside of my eyelids, my gums, and the inside of my nose, on top of having my face burnt badly. The doctors at base camp actually had to flip my eyelids inside out and scrub them because the backs were like bacon.
* ran from going to argentine hospital
* a shuttle refused to take me to my hotel, so I had to take a cab while I was blind, got back and they were fumigating my room for bedbugs... again!
* devoured by bedbugs anyway, now my arms and legs look like my face : like a honeybaked ham wearing wax lips
* stumbled into the med-evac insurance meeting. maaaybeee didnt pay the 2,000$us they wanted... maaaybeee left argentina and have to add it to the list of places I cant go back to
* leaving argentina got my 1,000$ tent stolen off the bus
What Im saying is: NAILED IT! at that exact moment, I was the highest up person on the planet! 7.5 billion people, and I was the top. VICTORY!
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