Aconcagua - Award Winning Documentary
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Seven Summits Award - Mountain Film Festival 2019
Semi-Finalist - Irish Adventure Film Festival 2019
Official Selection - Milano Montagna 2018
Best Editing - Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards 2018
Official Selection - International Festival of Outdoor Films 2018
A self-shot and edited film detailing what it takes to climb and summit the highest peak in South America and the highest point in the World outside the Himalayas. Trip provided by Aventuras Patagonicas.
Feel free to comment below or email me if you have projects that you need filming/editing...
james.kellett.smith@gmail.com
Thanks for watching :)
The award this won was "Best ad for a tour agency", and "Most edits that removed the things you would actually want to see."
I climbed it in February 1984. Descending from the summit alone, I saw in a place called " El acarreo" very nice blond women ridding white horses along a beach then, I remembered the words of a wise polish expedition cook, he told us: "it doesn't matter what you hear or what you see, keep descending, keep walking, never stop pushing until you reach the safety of the base camp". This profetic words save my life. Thank you. Where ever you are I'll always thank you.
It was an illusion.
@@Twobarpsithat’s… what he’s saying…
Fun to be reminded of the mountain. I traversed it solo in 1994. Pretty hard going with a storm on the day I summited. Went through a period of hallucinating white rabbits and Samurais on horseback on the way down. Happy memories!
You sir are a legend. I actually climb mountains on LSD . Haha
Pictures or it didn't happen
@@jackoliver7506 people like you are what's wrong with the world. The industrial revolution and its consequences, you.
@@DaoNguyen-iy2iu it was a joke karen...
@@DaoNguyen-iy2iu That sounds oddly familiar
Tried twice, turned from summit bid due to bad weather. Love the people and the country which makes this mountain very special.
Well done on your trips. It takes courage to turn back when you realise it's not safe. It can't have been as easy thing to do so great job getting back in one piece
I was there, many years ago... happy to see and hear that the motivation and sensations are still alive...
I was one of the 2 lucky ones, out of a group of 9 to embrace the summit cross, but we were all winners!
The mountain is unique, long live its magic and beauty.
Did this in '04, without guides or catering- definitely a more civilized way to go. Brought back some great memories and reminded me why I still travel today. Thankyou.
Been up there in Feb. 2008. One of the greatest moments in my life.
Nice video, beautiful place with nice people.
I submitted this mountin back in 1998!! No oxygen brings back a lot of memories!
These self-made documentaries are the best. Great!
Great video. I summited Aconcagua on Christmas Day, 2017, just a couple of weeks after you guys.
Congrats Steve!! A great achievement! I hope the video helped you relive it a little :)
Up and down in 4 days in 92. Had spent a long time at high altitude so well acclimated. Long hard slog. Great views. One Israeli guy with cerebral Oedema was pretty sick. Loved it🤩
Argentina y sus paisajes, amo mi hermoso país! ❤️🇦🇷
I do too 🇿🇦
After watching a series of videos about K2, Nanga Parbat, Annapurna, Everest, etc., the Aconcagua looks like a pleasant walk in the countryside. You don't really get to fear for your life: no death zone, no avalanche, no frozen corpses along the way, no serac, no cliffs, no crevasses, no -40°C températures.
But it still looks great.
I hear ya. But a ~7000m summit is far from a completely safe ascent. Needs good preparation and a well planned expedition. I know of people who almost got themselves killed on that mountain (and surely people have died there too).
@@JustBrowsing777 You are right. I made some research after watching the video and discovered that fatalities are not that rare. But the death rate must be low, because many more people attempt this climbing than the K2.
Seems the same to mee XD, Where is the dramatic music?! Naaa... Beautiful Aconcagua
Yeah definitely, comparatively, it is not as technically difficult. You have to be careful but if you are then it is a great way to challenge yourself with less immediate risk than the Himalayan high peaks. Thanks for your comment :)
If it looks too easy for you, try getting up via the South Face!
I just finished climbing to the summit last week paraglided down to our base camp! It was just a lot of great fun! I recommend it for everyone.
Congratulations. That sounds amazing.
Yeah, no. Congratulations, glad it went well.
It’s on descent from the summit that injuries snd deaths occur. Especially at high altitude.
You probably took the safer option by paragliding down to base camp
I knew Rodrigo in Valdez, AK, in the early ‘90s when he could run up and down Denali like it was nothing. He even talked about doing it in a day. You are aging well, my man!
An easy hike for good acclimatisers, not even need to be all that fit. I summited at the age of 65 with double artificial hips, slight heart condition (atrial fibrillation) and BMI of 28. My oxygen saturation levels were 5-10 points higher than anybody else's in the group, 10 to 40 years younger than me. I was the only one able to carry all gear without porters, 22 kg to the highest camp. Place de Mulas 92%, Canada 88%, NdC 87% and Camp Cholera 5950m 82%. One in our group of 5 had to be evacuated on the second day from BC because of HAPE.
un beau reportage réveillant de beaux souvenirs ! merci
Great video! I can't wait to go here once the world opens up for travel again!
Randomly stumbled across this video, and to my surprise I actually recognize one of the climbers! Summitted Denali with Andrew et al last year. He's an awesome dude, and it was a super fun trip. Great video!
Haha brilliant, yeah Andrew’s a great guy and super strong. I think he said he’d done Kilimanjaro too. Hope you enjoyed Denali, would love to do that one day too
Nice vid. I spent several southern early autumns, in Parque Aconcagua, painting the great landscape. Met a lot of climbers. And, a lot DIDN'T get to the top... Timing has to be good, weather windows etc. Lot of people go, with a set amount of time. It took my brother in law three attempts, to get to the top. Not technically hard, but it still kills people, who don't prepare, respect it etc.
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That's all mountains, though. Vertical is always plenty high to kill you if you jump off, get drunk etc, bad weather kills and stupid/unlucky people can get caught by avalanches. I've climbed all of the mountains in Norway. With one or two exceptions they are easy, but the same things there as in the Himalayas or Andes otherwise, except the thin air. Weather, avalanches, don't fall down. Even here you're told to turn back immediately if the weather turns. Don't do that = possibly dead in a few hours. You're told to not climb the sunlit side of mountains. Do it anyway = possibly buried alive under an avalanche a few minutes later.
Possibly unfair, but stupidity kills. That's basically my motto. Even if you're standing still at sea level.
Climbed it in December 2006. An amazing mountain.
How much was it back in 2006?
@@vertihvost7675, I believe I paid around $2,500 for 18 days.
Looking at climbing videos of the Himalayas vs this puts things in perspective. Still, mad respect to anybody going to the top of this, and even more respect to take it step by step and not just book a "trip" to Mt. Everest.
Mate I did this in 2019 3 out of 8 made it. Watching people give up crying cause they couldn’t push on was hard… I just never gave up… my brain just said suck it up… marched on. ❤ truly an incredible humbling experience of what a body can take and the view was clear that day absolutely amazing…
Climbed and summited. Spent 4 days at base camp, climbed high slept low then went to 19000 for 2 days and summited from 19000 back down to 19000 then all the way down to base camp and out to the trail head. Summited day low wind 5 below. Great summit. Worse part of the climb was the wind coming through the valley to base camp picking up the sand and dust. Over all this is an easy mountain Rainer is much harder.
Did you summit from camp berlin?
no
Hermoso documental!! Felicitaciones para todos y en especial al mejor guia del planeta:Matías Nestares🌎
Very heart-warming and beautiful.
Rodrigo Mujica, un gran andinista chileno y un gran guía! Felicitaciones por este film, excelente! Un fuerte abrazo amigo, nos encontramos en Plaza Argentina, en el año 1994 cuando hicimos una ruta nueva por el glaciar de los Polacos con mi amigo Limón Cruz.
Un fuerte abrazo amigo.
José Hernández
"Climbed" Aconcagua 1995.
Not a technical mountain, pretty much a walk in the park, exept the weather and, offcourse, if you take the south face. The view when you pop up your head over the edge of the canaleta is breathtaking🙏❤️
A lot of hype for a mountain that horses and a motorcycle have made it to the top of. There is a trail to the top. It's essentially a tough backpacking trip. As far as it being the hardest day of someone's life, some people have their hardest day of their life on the couch.
This is not a trip where you need to have a guide.
Two of us summited from camp Nido de condores in 2003. We were spent during the descent. I was a little afraid to go lay down when we got back to camp because it felt like I would not wake if I fell asleep. Like an old car, it runs now, but you know that if you turn it off it will never start again. I also had a spectacular out of body experience in camp Mulas.
Great film showing this beautiful mountain! Well done 👍🤙🤙
i was hike to plaza de mulas in 2005, was the better journey of my life. great documentary!
Thanks Gabi, I appreciate it
Much respect to those out there living their lives for us in here
0:15 that profile capture tho! *chefs kiss
AMAZING !!! Need to do it before I get older ! But I can say I have been there to through your video ! 😁
✔️☝️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏
Looks like this mountain and surroundings are really-really gorgeous! The most beautiful mountain on Earth, perhaps?
I've had the daring dream of summiting this mountain without guides or porters for a while now. Unfortunately I'm not old enough nor do I think I have enough experience. Someday I wish do fulfill my dream. Awsome video man
Watch Casey Neistat’s video about Aconcagua. He did it with no guides or navigation
A very familiar landscape… used to lead trips there in the nineties. Great to see it all again! Thanks!😊🙏🏻
Thanks for having us along.
Very welcome :)
We did it the same route in 6 days several years ago. The most beautiful mountain I ever climbed!
No one cares
Großglockner in the Alps ? 😂
@@notyourbiz235 forget grossglockner
Cool video. Summitted un-guided in the early '90s via the Polish Direct Route. There are several routes up Aconcagua. The main routes, in ascending order of difficulty are, The Normal Route, Polish Traverse (Jame's video), Polish Glacier Route, Polish Direct, and of course the South Face which is several orders of magnitude harder than the Polish Direct.
Thanks for sharing. How beautiful.
Thanks Rachel, I appreciate it :)
Did this route back in '99 - AMAZING TRIP!!! Great video guys.
Thank you! Glad you liked it
Went and did this via Ruta Polaco variation as six person trip expedition leader. Wind loaded the upper route with avalance snow so held our breaths doing the traverse below the Polish Glacier.
No bridges on the approach when we went that way. Sorry to see the impacts of climate disruption with the shoulders and summit bare and penetenties just about gone. Back then penetenties were 4 to 6 feet tall. Sad.
Thanks for watching, interesting comments. Some of the Penetentes were probably 4 feet but perhaps thinner as well than in the past
I’d love to do this someday, but would definitely need some serious training. I’ve been to over 5000m on Ritacuba Blanco in Colombia, but I feel like 7000m is a whole different story, and I certainly felt the altitude in Colombia.
I did get to see Aconcagua from the mirador near Portillo, but that’s as close as I’ve managed.
Totally, it can be tough only flying halfway there by chopper…and then having to walk a bit as well.
Which mirador? I went to Portillo but only saw the Aconcagua from the road on the chilean side
This is a great little documentary. I climbed this route in Feb. 2014 and the scenes you included are so special. Thank you James.
Beautiful!! I did it with no guides several years ago.
@myjourney 22688 fuck off
Back in the eighties, I stayed at a friend's apartment while he climbed Aconcagua. A good option for a high altitude experience.
Excelente, espero tener el gusto de ese ascenso
As a younger man (30s), I planned this trip. Now I only watch videos of this.
Great video! Takes me back two a couple attempts on Acongagua. Once summiting solo in alpine style. What an amazing adventure!
How much does a trek like this cost a person? Like gear,travel,food,tips? Im unaware of how i could make this happen climbing seems heavily sponsored and these arent normal people like me that can just go do something so awesome and titanic as climbing a mountain but i am drawn to this just zero experience
@@Beederda Not a huge amount if you do-it-yourself. If you get outfitted and have a guide they are quite a bit more.
What award won this documentary? Or is just a click bait?
"congratualtion, upload succesfull"
Jk, it was ok
Looked like an infomercial for the expedition company.😜
His mama made up a bunch of special awards for him.
Mi Bella Argentina !!!!!!
Oh the best guides on Aconcagua! Sebastián and Rolo!
I had the opportunity to meet them when I climbed the mountain with my friend. They are good people! Nice video of your climb!
Yeah Sebastian and Rolo are class. We had Matias too and he is great as well, fastest guy on the mountain! Lovely people and it was a pleasure to climb with them.
Thanks for watching :)
This is a healty challenge/adventure. Everest and K2 are dangerous, not an adventure anymore.. it's just for ego, at a very high price - the life of those who had tried and failed.
Thanks for your comment, it's an interesting debate, whether climbing Everest/K2 is somehow selfish because of those you might endanger along the way and if it still has the prestige that it used to, given how many have climbed it. Personally I think that maybe it is starting to go that way.
On another similar note, a friend once said to me that they thought Aconcagua was the highest relatively safe mountain to climb, which I think is fairly accurate.
congratulations , great film and insight into the mountain
Great video,keep it up!🇧🇯🇧🇯🇧🇯🇧🇯🇧🇯🇧🇯
Simply gorgeous!
Thanks for sharing your excellent adventure James, the video is well done. The summit day is cloudy not windy, then the weather rapidly cleared for descent. It appears the Tour Operators push was unnecessary; with a slower paced ascent to promote acclimatisation I feel sure MOST climbers would have summited, certainly more than three people.
Thanks for your comment, Mike. It did clear on the descent somewhat so potentially there was a longer window than expected on the day. I think we could have maybe got one more to the summit if we had slowed the pace a lot but it's so unpredictable, its always hard to make a judgement that high on the mountain. Thanks for watching :)
Beautiful film. One of my regrets in life (I am now 70) is that I never got a chance to try Aconcagua.
After reading this comment I'm sure I'm going to try to climb it.
@@chatka92 Did you?
Thanks for this! I run an adventure Travel Podcast called Between The Mountains. I’m interviewing someone on Aconcagua next week and this has helped me get sorted for it - I’m yet to climb the mountain myself unfortunately!
Ah great, glad it was helpful for you :)
I have looked it up on spotify so I'll be following your chats, looks super interesting. Good luck with the interview and I look forward to listening to it
James Smith oh man that’s amazing thank you! I know I have Aconcagua sorted but if you want to come on about a particular trip you can email me btmtravelpod@gmail.com I’ve got the Karakoram, Kanuka Mountains, Patagonia and the 7 Summits World Record as examples of mountain episodes coming out in July and August!
win documentary by doubling back 100x to get footage and fly drones over in HD boom award winner NO CLUE HOW.. people o these routes and get footage every day much more raw organic footage and these guys winning awards
Amazing 🤩
ARGENTINA 🙌❤
What an amazing trip. Thanks for sharing
now i know what the orcas at seaworld feel listening to loud annoying music. thanks award winning documentary.
Argentina is friggin beautiful
Trust in me . Dont visit latinoamerica
@@yorha2175 And who are you to say that? South America is beautiful, visit Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Brazil, nothing ever happened to me.
This looks very easy... good job!
This film narrowly won the award of "Best film about climbing on Acongagua in the first half of the month of November 2017"
I did Kilimanjaro past December. The most important item - by far! - is to have Diamox with you! Diamox is your superhero friend up the mountains. Diamox is medication against AMS.
Hmm interesting, diamox really splits opinions I have to say. Critics say that it just masks the symptoms so can lead to you suddenly feeling very bad without the normal warning signs from your body but I have also heard similar positive accounts to yours. Personally I brought diamox but didn’t take it (partly advice from guides). I got headaches, some light-headedness and very near to the top I started to feel as if I was almost starting to hallucinate a little.
I haven’t settled on an opinion on diamox overall I don’t think
Hopefully one day I can do this!!
CERTAINLY YOU CAN !
Good luck, Ivan! :)
Amen!
Awesome video, thank you for sharing....
A maior montanha do mundo fora da Ásia fica aqui , perto do Brasil .
It’s a dream for me to summit Aconcagua
Good luck, I hope you can go one day :)
animereich me too man! working my way up!
Awesome documentary! If you do this again a microphone would make it 10x better. It's really hard to understand the interviewers at times.
Thanks! Yeah I think you're right and I have since invested :)
This was done on a bit of a budget but I am looking into doing another...(possibly Denali).. and I am keen to take on feedback and make it even better. Thanks for watching
Excellent little documentary!
Thanks Jacob! :)
Glad watching your uploaded vid nice captured impressive nature
and spectacular scenery seen over the top of the mountain
thanks for sharing, much likd # 3K my friend.
Great video. It’s nice to see the cross at the top honouring JESUS CHRIST CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. ALL GLORY TO YOU GOD
great job, thank you for sharing
I summited wearing nothing but a half -shirt, speedos, and Crocs. It took me about an hour. Easy mountain. Gonna ride my moped to the top tomorrow.
Seems like a peace of cake after watching videos on K2, Nanga Parbat or Annapurna.
Well of course. I don't think he's trying to compare that. Summiting that mountain basically gets you to base camp at k2. It's still a great achievement.
Amazing video ! I would like to summit this beautiful mountain one day. Thanks for sharing. Can you recommend any company or agency?
Award winning. Was this filmed on gopro?
Cool documentary. My recommendation is buy a wireless microphone. I could barely understand the vocal audio from the on board camera with the wind and acoustics of the environment.
Why do they say "climb"? It's just a hike from what I can see.
Wonderful
Hey James, loved your work. Wonder, which camera you used. Thank you
hoping to climb this one day :)
So this is basically a nice hike.
In terms of Technical difficulty, definitely. But 23,000 ft is not to be fucked with.
@keli 20.30 it's not over 8000 meters
For those who underestimated ANY mountain, www.mountainiq.com/deaths-on-aconcagua/ It does not matter reaching the summit if you can't go back home and upload a video to your social media.
Basically? Definitely not! The great mountains is one of the grates phisical and mental challenges that a human being can face.
I think William French sums it up best there :)
Which awards did it Win???? Really,? A commercial expedition "documentary"?
I was asking this too.. They just documented what they did.. Nothing outstanding about the filming, subject matter or anything.. Clickbait?
I think it won the award for most ads in a 14 minute video. I got 2 ads and one political break.
It is no climbing but a well prepared trekking in 60 degree slanting 😃
Can you possibly make a video of all the supplies you took?
I might consider doing this but for now I am focussing on other projects :)
I found a few other videos on this though so hopefully you came across what you're looking for
Looks far from the nearest airport. Did anyone view or hear any planes ? Is it possible to just charter a plane ride and save the climbing for another lifetime ?
If someone has done the Abra Salkantay Trek is this around the same level. Obviously being 7k higher is going to be a factor but as far as skill level? Trying to gauge how much training is needed.
Thank you every one
how much does it cost per person ?
Shout out to @caseyniestat
Award winning
After Kili this seems appropriate ,more challenging
Yeah Kili is perfect preparation to go for Aconcagua next if you fancy it
Very nice sir. Congrats
Thanks Amrut :)
I met Rodrigo in Antarctica. He was a super interesting guy, been meaning to climb with him in Patagonia.
Yeah, he mentioned that he does trips to Antarctica, I bet that was amazing, really lovely guy