We are not an anonymous structure. These are the people you will speak to before, during and after your expedition. Most of them have been here for years and still go up every season. Each one has their trade on the mountain and their life off it.
Founder
A climber since 1973 and an Aconcagua pioneer. In 1985 he guided the Club Andinista Mendoza's 50th anniversary expedition and was part of the first crossing of the Andes on touring skis. In 2001 he opened the first bar on Aconcagua at Plaza de Mulas, where Pared Sur began.
CEO · Operations and infrastructure
He took over the work his father began and today runs the company. He is in charge of everything that happens inside the Park: base camps, high-altitude domes, mules and infrastructure. If something is built, repaired or moved on the mountain, it went through his hands. But his real job is another one: making sure the mountain stays the mountain. That growing doesn't turn the experience into a product, and that what Eduardo started building half a century ago is still there when you arrive.
Sales, administration and bookings
He runs the commercial and administrative side: quotes, contracts and agreements with international operators. He also handles Park entry permits, accommodation and transport for every booking. He enjoys exactly what everyone else finds a burden: the paperwork, the forms, the Park bureaucracy. Someone has to enjoy it, and luckily it's him. He combines running the company with his film projects.
Purchasing, logistics and infrastructure
He takes care of purchasing and, together with Javier, of logistics and infrastructure. Everything that gets eaten, used or built on the mountain, he bought first: the supplies for three base camps, the dome materials, the fuel, the spare parts. He answers for every item being in the right place at the right time.
Camp manager
One of the longest-serving people at Plaza de Mulas: she has so many seasons at 4,350 metres that a good share of those who climb each year already know her. Responsible for the base camps —accommodation, dining room, services— and for the kitchen: fresh bread, pasta, stews, dessert. Strong-willed and straightforward, as you have to be to run a full base camp. She is also the one who sits down to talk with whoever came down without a summit.
Head muleteer
In charge of the 130 mules and the muleteer team. He says the mules are like his daughters and he knows every one of their names. He carries the oldest trade on Aconcagua and put it at the service of something that used to go unwatched: the rest and welfare of the animals. Controlled loads, respected rest and veterinary checks on the whole string, with one of the best animal welfare records in the Park. The muleteer tradition, turned into method.
Logistics at Puente del Inca
You'll meet her the day you take your loads to the depot at Puente del Inca, and that's where it all really begins. From that point she triangulates the Mendoza logistics with the base camps: she receives the gear, makes it up into loads, dispatches it by mule and coordinates the return. She greets you with a smile that is a good sign of what's about to start.
The team
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