Team Si Nombre feeling great after moving through the beautiful snowy scenery to Camp 2 at Amagino Col

Hey guys, this is Matt Hegeman, Alpine Ascents Team Si Nombre here on Aconcagua, just wanted to let everybody know that we successfully moved to our Camp 2 up here at Amagino Col (just over 17,000 feet).

It was a pretty, pretty chill day, getting increasing cloud… (transmission cuts out) afternoon snow showers, after a beautiful morning. It seems to be the pattern that’s continuing to hold. It’s not windy, so doesn’t really affect us too much, makes for some actually beautiful scenery. Everything’s covered in snow right now.

Everybody did really well coming up here. Everyone’s feeling really well so you know, folks are high. Yeah so we’ll just be hanging out here. We’ll be carrying over to our Camp 3 tomorrow and get… (transmission garbled then cuts out).

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