ECMC Expedition to
Aconcagua (6959m)
Winter 1999/2000

Dave Dave ‘Chef’ Hargreaves
(‘Yeh yeh yeh yeh nah nah nah’)
Will Will ‘Log Keeper’ Harris
(‘Come on - someone leave a log!’)
Stu Stuart ‘Bad Sh*t’ Mcleod
(‘Let's cause some bad sh*t!’)
Paul Paul ‘Come on’ Roberts
(‘Come on guys - let's get a move on!’)

During the expedition, a log was made every night into the Nino handheld computer, unfortunately, as you read the log you will see that the Nino was lost towards the end of the expedition, so the log has had to be reconstructed from the memories of the ECMC team members, mainly using the memory of Will, who had written the original log.

For this reason, some events in the log may not be described perfectly - however the team have tried their best to recall what happened, and they hope that the log will provide the reader with an accurate view of how things went on the mountain.

The log has been split into three parts to make the amount downloaded in each file smaller:

PartTitleDates
Part 1Journey to BaseCamp9th December - 13th December
Part 2To the summit!14th December - 26th December
Part 3Millennium in Chile27th December - 7th January

The log was recorded by Will and so this may mean that events involving him are more accurately recorded than events where he was not present.