When you are climbing Aconcagua, there are someone which is taking care for your and those are the Aconcagua rescue team, as in any high mountains, there is a rescue team ready to help with any kind of risky situation related to a medical emergency or an evacuation. The Mendoza Police Department works for this rescue team Its aim is to safeguard the lives of the climbers and trekkers on the Normal Route from Plaza de Mulas to the summit and to take them to the medical service of the Administration of Natural Resources from where the evacuation is coordinated to the park exit. In each camp site they have their own tents marked with their names. For another routhes of Aconcagua like in the South wall and on the Polish Glacier this services are not included in the regular coverage of the patrols since they are considered high risk; therefore, those climbers who choose them must take all the necessary precautions in case of an emergency; but anyway, the park rangers constantly guards and are in expectative on what is happening on these routes in VHF, 24 hours a day.
in case of the emergency other people are assigned to participate in the rescue operations such as park rangers, guides and other climbers as patrol assistants, due to the danger of descending a sick person from the altitude camps, mainly due to the geography of this park and the long distances between the different camps. Climbers and Trekkers must be aware that even if there is a rescue team, they should not take unnecessary risks beyond their strength. Help may take several hours to arrive as long as they receive the corresponding warning; otherwise expeditioners shouldn’t run any unexpected dangers against of their life’s, anyway the rescue team are permanently monitoring for emergencies with the radio frequency 142.8 MHZ FM

In Aconcagua high climbing season which comes from 15 November to 15 March, there is free medical assistance service situated in the base Camp or Plaza de Mulas, always several altitude illnesses are presented by climbers and trekkers like oxygen saturation in the blood, stomach aches and vomits and low pression etc, so to prevent this kind of risks climbers or trekkers should go checking in the medical services assistance in Plaza de Mulas, so checking your body0’s conditions is part of your success of your expeditions to Aconcagua