Aconcagua – Mendoza and Medical Exams
Friday December 5, 2008
We’ve been in Mendoza now for two days. The weather has been hot and dry, very nice. The Argentinian people are some of the kindest people I’ve ever met, we’ve made several new friends. Special thank you to Arturo Argumedo who without his help and planning the Aconcagua attempt would not be possible.
The past few days have been very difficult. In order to comply with the Court of Argentina’s conditions to gain a permit I’ve had to get a medical exam from a Pulmonologist and a Cardiologist. Unfortunately, we learned today that they had to be performed by a special public hospital so I spent the day back with the Doctors doing the same test over. Dr. Luis was especially kind.
At 3 pm I finally was granted my climbing permit. We begin the trek in to Confluencia tomorrow morning. Now we can start climbing Aconcagua.