Zesty Lemon

The final chapter of my Argentinian adventure. Complete with epilogue and details of summit successes. Click here for the previous part, or click here for my diary on the mountain. After some revitalisation, we had to get some of our money changed into Argentinean Pesos. Contrary to what Adventure Peaks had advised, it was the [...]

Click here to read part 2. Landing in Madrid, I was staggered at how cold it was. Whilst I had been preparing for the fridged temperatures I was likely to encounter on the mountain, it stupidly hadn’t even occurred to me that southern Europe had a winter. I had nursed myself through Gatwick wearing just [...]

I received a lot of positive feedback from the first post about my climb of Aconcagua. However; be this lucky or not, I had always aimed to write more chapters. The initial instalment covered my time on the mountain, but as a committed cynic, the prequel to the climb including the planning, preparation and the [...]