Great presentation Sunny and Thank You. I am with AMG this coming December. I live in Park City and have been doing training with weight in my Backpack going up different vertical amounts and using the itinerary as a guide as well. I did Kili last Fall of 2021 and we did the Western Breach Route. Camps were at 15,220', 16,000', and 18,838' and I did well. Pace was slow and I am sure that helped but I also never had any signatures of Altitude Sickness. I am looking forward to Aconcagua in December. Again, loved your video and really proud of you and what you are doing. Congrats! Cheers!
Wow what a fantastic, instructional video about climbing tall mountains. I’ve watched tons of videos about the tallest peaks disasters including several 2023 fatalities in this mountain but never saw such detailed and helpful explanations! Congratulations, this can save lives! 🎉
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Congrats on your awesome achievements. While your video was oriented towards women, I found it to be the absolute most informative source of information about choosing a route, the challenges you face, and what it takes to succeed. Thanks for putting this together.
There is a real trade off between adding time for acclimatization and wearing down your physical and mental capacity from being up there for a prolonged period of time. About 4 out of 5 climbers tend to be OK with the ~14 day acclimatization schedule on the mountain. For climbers who have no prior history at altitude, pre-acclimatization (outside of the context of the commercial expedition schedule) can be helpful.
@@awexpeditionsthe permit gives you 20 days. Why not use them? Your answer is why I will not use a guided expedition. Guides do NOT follow the medical advice. They choose the trip time that sells trips. Guides don’t care about client success. It is all about selling trips that require minimal guide effort and maximum guide fees. I also don’t believe you have an 80% success rate. Instead 80% of your clients don’t threaten to sue or need a medivac but most don’t summit.
@@LinusWilson I don't usually post lengthy responses, but your statements made me want to respond in depth. We follow medical advice, and care tremendously not "just" about client success but also about making the experience a transformative and unforgettable one for everyone who chooses to join one of our teams. If you think that mountaineering guides are in it for the money you likely have no prior direct experience with guides, or you may have had an unusually bad experience with a guide. If the latter is true, I am sorry that happened to you. For many climbers, the benefits that a guide and guided team brings to the table are tremendous. For others, the flexibility and sense of accountability that you gain by going independently is more valuable than the safety, expertise and camaraderie gained from joining a guided team. That said, and for what it's worth, some factual points: 1) Aconcagua permit stipulations change with the seasons. Just in the time that I have been climbing on Aconcagua (the last decade), permits have been valid for as many as 20 days, and for a short a window as 16 days during COVID. 2) I did not claim an 80% success rate, I said that the 14 day acclimatization schedule is usually appropriate for 4/5 climbers. There are many things other than acclimatization that factor into summit statistics, weather and fitness being two very important inputs. 3) Finally, if you are thinking about business strategy.... the "trip time that sells" would be somewhere within the two weeks door-to-door window. Either way - good luck in your endeavors!
That’s because AWExpeditions is a US-based company and the majority of the audience for this webinar was US-based 🙏🏻 1m ~ 3ft for quick conversion purposes!
