Amateur Needs Teacher For Aconcagua!

[Mattan]

Hello everyone. I am a young, strong-minded 21 year old who would like to climb Mount Aconcagua but does not have experience climbing.

 

Last year, I did a year long motorcycle trip from California to Buenos Aires and back through the Brazilian Amazon. During the trip, I had pneumonia while foolishly crossing the Andes with sub-par clothing.

 

What better way to get my revenge than to climb the Andes' highest peak?

 

I am looking for someone who would climb with me and who has some experience climbing this scale of a mountain. If anyone is interested in the least and would like to speak with me, please message or better yet, send me an email to "shragerm @ gmail dot com" (wrote it that way to avoid spam).

 

Cheers, climbers.

[JosephH]

Congrats on surviving jumping on a motorcycle and heading South - that shows pluck, courage, and a sense of adventure. But the mountains are filled with dead strong-minded people. Climbing knowledge and accomplishments are the sort of thing you work on earning a climb at a time increasing in difficulty as you progress. Otherwise, as another inspired high altitude tourist, you'll just be endangering whoever is foolish enough to take you with them on any such climb. There are simply no shortcuts to this sort of endeavor and, like getting to Buenos Aires, it's about the journey - not the destination. And hell, you're young, I'd say take your time and enjoy the ride, there's no need to rush a thing like this.

[ivan]

aconcagua's supposed to be a pretty simple mtn and i'm sure you could train yourself just fine - basically you need to be in good physical shape and have experience in cold weather travel and camping, plus decent gear - if you're looking for a teacher, you'll probably have to not be ridign all over the continent on a bike during that training time though, eh?

[JosephH]

Anyone can get up any number of mountains around the world so long as nothing goes wrong.

[alexbaker]

Mattan, you could email me at bakerjohnalex at gmail.

 

I wouldn't recommend Aconcagua to anyone interested in getting into climbing. If you want to suffer in a really expensive way though, I guess Aconcagua works.

 

 

Alex

 

 

[ivan]

I wouldn't recommend Aconcagua to anyone interested in getting into climbing. If you want to suffer in a really expensive way though, I guess Aconcagua works.

 

 

Alex

 

word - denali is the shizzle - you can still bike there!