http://theregularclimber.com Audentis resonant per me loca muta triumpho Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:41:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I type, the teaser trailer of the new movie is being uploaded to YouTube, it should be available sometime Sunday. Yes, I am excited to actually see some form take shape of the vision bouncing around in my head. (note: as of this writing the quality is still ... http://theregularclimber.com/2009/03/240-an-aconcagua-odyssey-teaser-trailer-now-available/ I'll have an interesting update coming soon, so keep your information gathering apparatus tuned in. Otherwise, not much in the way of climbing over the last month and a half. Spent a while recovering from Aconcagua and getting back into the ebb and flow of our society. Working on ... http://theregularclimber.com/2009/03/things-are-approaching/ Greetings readers. It has been two weeks since our return and more since an update here. Although most of everyone who knows the team has talked or been around us, I thought I owed anyone still reading this blog some apologies and clarifications. This comes after fully decompressing back ... http://theregularclimber.com/2009/02/clarifications-on-reflections/ Hello constant reader. Bad weather, developing sickness, and death of friends above us led us to pull the plug. Lots of snow and viento blanco forced us down from our high point at camp 2 (5800m). I have a respirtory issue and Matt was getting mild HAPE (all of ... http://theregularclimber.com/2009/01/repulsed-but-alive/ I hope this works. We are all in Mendoza safe and sound after 40 hours of travel...plus all of our luggage made it too. Very busy tomorrow but hopefully can check in then too. Cheers! http://theregularclimber.com/2008/12/we-made-to-mendoza/ This is it, the day has finally arrived and we will be on our way soon.  Flights leave Denver today at noon and we'll be in Mendoza tomorrow around 2:30pm Denver time.  Mendoza is four (4) hours ahead of Denver, so keep that in mind when checking in on our ... http://theregularclimber.com/2008/12/it-begins/ Here are some brief bio's of the team. David Olson is a 23 year old mountaineer and CSU student from Virginia. He has been climbing since he was 16 and has traveled and climbed around the world. He has spent extensive time in South America including a 72 day NOLS expedition ... http://theregularclimber.com/2008/12/meet-the-team/ I updated the Aconcagua page. It now contains a link to be able to track the expedition as well as expanded information. Check it out by following the menu link above. http://theregularclimber.com/2008/12/aconcagua-page-update/ Matt and I set out today to RMNP for a last day of altitude and gear training.  We just wanted to run some of our clothing systems through the wringer of cold and windy weather.  And cold it was, temperatures hovered around -15C all day with strong gusts over 60kph.  ... http://theregularclimber.com/2008/12/spot-on-epic/ The Aconcagua expedition page is ready for the most part, access my the menu tab at the top of each page. I'll be sending more information there up until the day we leave, so keep checking back, or subscribe to the RSS feed on that page to have updates ... http://theregularclimber.com/2008/12/expedition-page-is-up/