Team 7 cheers for the beef and veggie asado cooked over the fire by the arrieros at Casa de Piedra

Hi, this is Matthew Emht calling in for Aconcagua Team 7. Today is January 15th and the Team has made it up to Casa de Piedra.

It’s been a pretty nice warm day, little windy. But everybody’s feeling good, doing well. We’re eating a bunch of beef and veggie skewers (cheering by the Team in background). Everybody seems pretty excited about the great dinner that our mule guys are cooking up for us and we’re excited to finally make it up to Base Camp tomorrow.

Thanks a lot for listening.

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