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Aconcagua Provincial Park will not authorize high-risk sports from 20 December to 1 February: the South Face, glacier skiing, paragliding and BASE jumping. Normal Route climbers are unaffected. The rest of the year those activities need a dated authorization, filed at least 30 working days ahead.
Operators working in Aconcagua Provincial Park say the mountain is unusually snowed in ahead of the 2026-27 season, and that the opening date for tourist entry has not yet been fixed. The same season begins under a new concession regime awarded by the Government of Mendoza in September 2026, replacing the annual permits used in previous years. Sitio Andino reported both on 27 September.
Jim Scott of Genoa, Nevada reached Uhuru Peak on 28 August 2026, aged 90 years and six months, and is reported by the Reno Gazette Journal as the oldest known person to climb Kilimanjaro. It was the 669th mountain of his climbing life and his second ascent of the peak, 45 years after the first. A few weeks earlier, Dr Art Ulene had climbed the same mountain on his 90th birthday.
Mendoza's protected areas authority has opened advance sales of Aconcagua climbing and long-trekking permits for the 2026-2027 summer season, at promotional wholesale rates available until 30 September 2026. The permits are sold only through the service companies that won the park's concession tender, and evacuation insurance is compulsory. Ascent by the Horcones valley is listed at USD 950 for foreign visitors and USD 1,290 by the Vacas valley.
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