Today we will carry half of our equipment to Nido de Condores. At the left corner you can see Camp Canada. So far the climbing consists of a steep sloope with rolling gravel. With 30 kilo on the back at this altitude it hurts in your body but we all struggle on. 30 minutes after we have left Camp Canada Mattias remembers that he has forgotten his passport, all the money and other important documents at the tent. "If you do wrong it will hurt"...After a long and excessive session where he demonstrates all his swearing skills he sets of to "run" down (without the backpack) again and fetch it. Olof stays and wait for him while Robert and Marco continue to walk in a calm pace towards Camp alaska.

Marco and Robert wait for Olof and Mattias at Camp Alaska (5180 masl) which you can see at the center of the picture. We take a shorter break together and decide to walk two different ways to Nido de Condores. Mattias and Olof took the longer serpentine route at the right side of Camp Alaska while Marco and Robert walked straight ahead through a somewhat steeper area with snow, the route Mattias and Olof toke two days earlier.

At last we reached Nido de Condores where we met Erik who had left earlier than the rest of us with all his equipment. He has planned a more aggressive trip because he has to go back home sooner than us. We find two camping grounds with a large area of snow about 75 metres away, perfect! We leave our equipment under some rocks and sit down tired and worned out to rest before Robert and Marco decide to walk down to Camp Canada again. Olof feels strong and accompany Erik who will make an acclimatization trip up to Camp Berlin.

Mattias wait at Nido de Condores until Olof has return and take a walk around the camp. He meets the Norwegian team from Hvitserk who has carried their equipment from Plaza de Mulas in order to come back again within two days. Nido de Condores is rather dirty here and there, here we can se how certain climbers do not have sense enough to take care of their private business in a civilized way. Over the whole camp you can see white toilet paper (with brown stripes) that flutter in the air weighed down by a few little stones. Sometimes they come loose when the wind is strong and comes at you with a full speed...Duck!

Olof and Erik comes down from camp Berlin. Mattias and Olof wish Erik good luck for his attempt to reach the summit tomorrow and then begins to walk down again. When they pass Camp Alaska they meet an Argentine guide of a commercial expedition. He is very nice and when they ask his name he present himself as Gabriel Cabrera. Wow! We had read about this man before we left, he is almost a living legend concerning climbings in Aconcagua. He has been a guide since the middle of the seventies and has probably more experience of this mountain than anyone else. In the beginning of the nineties he dragged up a mountain bike at the summit and cycled down again...Respect! We did not know it then but his experience would help to rescue the life of another climber three days later.

During the evening we will once again see a fantastic sunset in Camp Canada. We have an incredible luck with the weather but despite this fact the temperature is going down a bit below zero degrees when the sun has set. Here we can see Marco in down gloves and down jacket, two garment that keeps you warm and it can be the difference between success and defeat when it will becomes really cold... Yellow is the colour of the fashion season at the mountain.