AMS Guide Team Up Close & Personal

Combat Wounded Veteran Challenge is a busy place as the Aconcagua Challenge Team prepares for the climb. Equipment has arrived, people are training, schedules being prepared and paper is flying around faster than an F-18! In some previous blog entries we’ve shared a...

Aconcagua Meet the Team (Part 5)

Josh is one of our new CWVC Warriors and is attempting his first Challenge.  And it’s a good sized one at that – Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina.  This is the highest mountain in the Western and Southern Hemispheres and is considered one of the more difficult Summits...

Meet the Aconcagua Team (Part 4)

The Aconcagua Summit Challenge Team will prepare to Climb this mountain, the second highest of the Seven Summits of the World.  It is treacherous terrain that requires major effort, excellent problem solving and self awareness. The terrain ranges from dry rocky...
Aconcagua Meet The Team (Part 3)

Aconcagua Meet The Team (Part 3)

Meet Roland Vaughan, another member of the Aconcagua Summit Challenge Team. Roland has participated in several of our CWVC Challenges. An avid photographer and filmmaker, Roland served as an Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2007, Vaughan was struck by a...