How Climbing Can Give You Purpose and Boost Your Mental Health
There’s something powerful about stepping into the mountains. As you breathe in the crisp air, feel the weight of your pack, and look up at…
Prepare Your Body for Mountaineering – A Training Guide
Are you gearing up for your inaugural mountaineering expedition? While mastering technical skills is crucial, your physical readiness is equally essential for conquering the summit….
What to Wear When Mountaineering
What to Wear When Mountaineering Embarking on a mountaineering adventure requires meticulous preparation, especially when it comes to choosing the right attire. From soaring peaks to…
Ten Ways To Recover After Aconcagua
Climbing a big, long mountain like Aconcagua with Jason Black Mountaineering is a perfect excuse to indulge in a big, long feast of calories after…
Aconcagua 2016 – 27hour summit success
….continuing beyond, i could see teams ahead fresh out of camp 3. By now i genuinely was worse for wear ,was it the altitude,dehydration or…
Aconcagua 2016 … summit push continues
By now life on Aconcagua was a game of patience …. With a 97% summit failure rate to date on Aconcagua team after team were…
Aconcagua …Hangs in the balance
It’s now Sunday morning 10th January and over night after lengthy discussions with expedition leader Milli and my weather wingman back home in Ireland Pat…
Aconcaguas raging storm
Setting out from basecamp and carrying 35kgs in full expedition load ,my pack laid down with food, stoves ,gas , tent along with my personal…
Aconcagua #2016 expedition
The 5am departure from the hotel in Mendoza signalled that all the hard work ,training preparation and sacrifices make had all come to this moment…
Halo Suramerica – Aconconcagua 2016
Expedition Aconcagua 2016 is well and truly underway. Day one & two…. Departing my home town of letterkenny in Ireland on Sunday morning 03-01- 2016…
