End of Traverse and diagonal climb to entrance of La Canaleta. This happened on February 13th 2016, and me and my friend Roger were only ones who tried the summit this day. Weather was bad with a very strong wind but forecast we had was that it will be the same next day and than possible storm can come and last 3-4 days. We couldn't wait for a new weather window and decided to give it a try. We continued up from this point around 130 m more, before weather and frost bite on my face forced us to turn back. Wind at the summit was 90 km/h. From the inside of Canaleta we went down all the way to the base camp Plaza de Mulas, picking up along the way all of our deposited staff including tent from high camps Berlin, Nido de Condores and Canada. We came in the base camp around 23 h under lights of torch lamps and with around 45-50 kg of load on our backs in total. There is no need to say that we were exhausted, it is something to be expected after day as this one. After 7 hours of sleep we continued trek from base camp Plaza de Mulas to entrance of national park Aconcagua, Horcones ranger station. It was a 30 km long trek from 4300 m to 2750 m. Then it was a time for a cold beer. End of story! For this time only.
