The team has already submitted to the loss of one weather day because of the impending windstorm predicted for Wednesday and Thursday. These winds would even limit the ability to ascend from Camp 2 to Camp 3, which is an essential step in order to make a summit bid at all. There’s no way they would spend the night at Camp 3, or at Camp 2, in these winds. Its all very dangerous.

So it seems if this forecast holds true later this evening (or tomorrow morning?), JJ and Geoff will guide Team One down to Base Camp at Plaza Argentina for safety and consider their plan of action, which may include deciding there’s no way to safely summit on this trip.

Hopefully Rob’s satellite phone dispatch this afternoon will shed some light on what they’re going to do.

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Bad weather frequently spoils summit attempts, which is why they call them summit “bids”. Here’s video at High Camp (Camp 3) on Aconcagua of a spoiled summit attempt in January 2009. You can see the conditions are pretty treacherous.