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Aconcagua Express has been the favorite South American expedition company for many reasons!

  1. Success Rates
  2. Best acclimatization program.
    We offer programs that allow the best chance of acclimatization, with many days of rest on lower camp, drinking a lot and eating very well. Our acclimatization process consist of climbing to the higher camp to carry gears and come back to sleep on the lower camp. Moreover we have 3 days to attempt the summit, so we have plenty of time to wait for the best physical and weather conditions.
  3. Best Professional Mountain Guides
    All our guides are professional certified mountain guide. Mostly local guides that have climbs many time the Aconcagua through the different routes every year.
  4. Perfect Clients To Guide`s Ratio
    We use a guide for 3 clients only on the Ameghino Upper Guanacos, Polish and Traverse, Polish Glaciar route and a guide for 4 clients on the Normal route.
  5. Porters
    We offer porters for tents, for all the expeditions to the Aconcagua (service included in our price !). We have our own porter team. We use mules to carry all gears to base camp and then porters for tents to high camps.
  6. Only 12 clients maximum
    For experience we know that the maximum of climbers per expedition shouldn’t be more than 12.
  7. Best High Altitude Mountain Equipment
    We use best mountain equipment such as a Mountain Hardware & North Face Tents
  8. Best Safety Support
    Our guides are equipped with oximeter to measure the saturation of oxygen of each client allowing daily control and safety in the route to the summit. Hyperbaric chamber
  9. Permanent communication
    Satellite phone : All our expeditions carry a satellite phone for safety and clients communication needs.
    Radio Communication : Both base camp are equipped of VHF 2 mt & BLU HF radio communication equipment.
  10. Twenty Four (24) Years Aconcagua’s most Professional & Impeccable Safety Record
    Aconcagua Express Expeditions can claim that had ZERO accident in 22 years operation, none injury, nor death.
  11. News
    Your family & friends can follow your progression on the mountain directly from our web page. RSS system ?
  12. Clients’ References
    Who can speak better about a company than their own clients ? We publish on our website all the commentaries that the clients send us after an expedition. Some allow us to give their e mail address and you feel free to contact them to know better about us.
  13. Environment friendly
    Leave no trace, etc… Gamow Bag
  14. The Most Valuable Price
    You can compare between the companies and you will realize that we offer the fairest rates when you analyze our offer which include the most key aspect for a successful Aconcagua climb (18 to 20 days depending the program) including Porters for common gear!.
  15. Five-star hotels
    We use in Mendoza only five-stars hotels, the NH Hotel or Hyatt. In Penitentes we use the best hotel in town Hotel Ayelen.
  16. Complete Registration Package
    When you get registered for an expedition we send you a complete registration package, including a Topographic Map, The Aconcagua, “Summit of America” book by Mauricio Fernandez, travel information, equipment long list, training program, how to pack your luggage, etc…
  17. Safe Gear Storage
    We use a local in Penitentes and tents on both Base Camps to storage clients’ gears. They are safe and allow you to not carry unnecessary gear on the mountain.
  18. Nutritious food
    Fresh food on base camp / good high camp diet
  19. Transportation
    Best ground transportation vehicule, including airport pick up, private transport.

Climber Experiences

Hallo Joaquin
Ich möchte mich auf diesem Weg für Dein perfektes Service bei unserer Aconcagua Expedition bedanken. Es war von Anfang an eine Freude mit Dir zusammen zu arbeiten. Die Transfers, sowie die Reservierung und Bezahlung der Permits haben wunderbar geklappt, auch die Hotels waren einfach klasse.

Es gilt besonders hervor zu heben die Flexibilität von Aconcagua Express bei Terminänderungen und die Freundlichkeit der Mitarbeiter. Ich werde Dich und Deine Firma auf alle Fälle bei den Alpinschulen in Österreich, Italien und Deutschland weiterempfehlen.

Christine und Werner
Austria

Hey Joaquin
We have used Aconcagua Express services every year we have guided Aconcagua and we have been 100% satisfied. Aconcagua Express is exceedingly professional, on time, and a good value. We would not choose another service for our expeditions.
Cheers,

Colby Combs Director Alaska Mountaineering School
Alaska

Beautiful route, and the strategy for adjusting to the altitude was very good. I really enjoyed our team, and Christina and Marianna also seemed to be enjoying themselves very well. Good atmosphere.

Choice for Aconcagua Express Expeditions was also because you were the only ones to actually give me advice on an expedition when I e-mailed you. You offered me a specific expedition and date. So the personal info was important for me.

Martijn de Boer
Netherlands

Everything went very smooth, it was great to have a small bag of stuff sent from Plaza Argentina around to Plaza de Mulas, as we could have clean underwear, socks and our trail shoes without having to carry them to high camp.

Tatiana seemed very knowledgeable with first aid and altitude sickness, and seemed well prepared.  Tatiana’s food was awesome. The other groups in our camps were jealous when all they had was rice and we had fresh baked pizza in Camp 2! A couple mornings in base camp, there was not much provided for breakfast (one day was only toast) and we finally had to ask them each day to make eggs.

Joaquin was very helpful with all of my requests, and very quick to respond, which is one of the main reasons I selected KL Adventure to work with on this trip.

The transfers and transport was fine.  All vehicles were comfortable and there was plenty of room.  Hyatt is awesome of course. Penitentes is not great, but obviously there is no other option.

The trip was great, we will definitely work with you again for our 2010 climb, and also hope to add a Patagonia trip in the near future. It was also nice to have Joaquin meet the group in Mendoza and to spend more time with him on the drive to Santiago. We would definitely want to have Tatiana as our guide again.  She was exceptional and there was not another guide on the mountain I would have rather had than her. It is also very nice to have a local guide as your leader, better in my opinion than having American or European guides.

Billi also did a very nice job, as an assistant guide she was great.  The two of them worked very well together.

Andrew Nachman Northwest Voyageur
USA

Volevo ringraziarti di tutto per quello che hai fatto tu e i tuoi collabori durante la nostra permanenza in Argentina. Hai dei collaboratori molto bravi anche a Plaza Argentina siamo stati trattati benissimo specialmente da Carolina che con la sua bravura e disponibilità ci ha coccolati per tutta la nostra permanenza. Io penso che, non so ancora quando, ma ritorneremo in Argentina e stai sicuro che torneremo ancora con i servizi dell’Aconcagua Express. Ciao saluta e ringrazia tutti i tuoi collaboratori, un saluto particolare a Carolina.

Renzo Dalla Bona Italian Team
Italy

Overall environment of the expedition was nice, relaxed and very good.
Guides were able proactively to solve all unexpected issues during the trip, and responded to the requests in fast and professional way.

Sarma Jeca
Sweden

Lieber Joaquin,
Als erstes möchte ich mich bei Dir für Deine Leistungen bei der Expedition zum Aconcagua bedanken. Bergführer Abi Kirschner hat sich sehr lobend über Deine Arbeit geäußert. Auch Pierre Kintgen war mit Bergführer und KL Adventure sehr, sehr zufrieden. Ich denke, das wird unseren gemeinsamen Produkten sehr gut tun – denn die Teilnehmer tragen Ihre Zufriedenheit weiter und das ist die beste Werbung für uns alle. Ich danke Dir und Deinem Team für die hervorragende Arbeit und Bemühungen! Herzliche Grüße aus München.

Michael Roepke
DAV-Summit Club Manager, Munchen
Germany

Hi Joaquin, I was a member of your January expedition to Aconcagua, I was very impressed with the entire setup and I would like to compliment you on how smoothly the expedition went. I was very impressed with the skills of both Gabriel and Mariana and if it hadn’t been for them and the decisions they made I am quite sure we would not have made the summit.

Peter Dignan
United Kingdom

Gabriel and Mariana are great very sensitive, customer minded and fun to be with. And very well prepared and responsible.

Frans Cromme
Netherlands

Hallo Joaquin,
Nun bin ich schon einen Monat zurück in Deutschland und denke immernoch jeden Tag an die tolle Bergtour zum Aconcagua. Du glaubst nicht wie glücklich ich bin, daß ich das geschaft habe. Dies habe ich im besonderen Dir und Deinem Unternehmen Aconcagua Express zu verdanken. Mit Tom Torkelson hatten wir einen super Bergführer der zum einen eine sehr schöne Route zum Gipfel geführt hat, Vacas Route, die zum anderen auch eine optimale Aklimatisation ermöglicht hat. Die gesamte Organisation war vom Anfang bis zum Ende sehr gut. Es gibt wirklich nichts was ich meine, was besser gemacht werden könnte. Wenn Du neue Kunden aus Deutschland oder Europa hast, die Fragen zur Aconcaguabesteigung haben, kannst Du Ihnen gerne meine email-Adresse geben, damit Sie Kontakt mit mir aufnehmen können.
Vielen vielen Dank!!

Johannes Niedeggen
Deutschland