6 Days
Daily Tour
8 people
English
A great trek and climb plan for climbers who’d like to improve in the discipline of mountain climbing. Trek a topographically interesting mountain route in the first days of your adventure. On the last days climb two of the best intermediate/advanced mountains in the range to enjoy immense views and revel in your achievements!
Leaving from Cusco; in private transportation early in the morning, you’ll travel 3 hours south to the Ausangate region. Following our arrival; taking the time to check all of our equipment for the climb. You’ll meet up with our arrieros and their mules; the arrieros loading all of our equipment before setting off on this epic Southern Peru adventure.
Nevado Percocaya
Altitude: 5,230m
Terrain & Route: Southwest face. Route is the closest and most hidden, quiet access to the basecamp and its glacier.
Experience: Intermediate Level.
Nevado Mariposa
Altitude: 5,860m
Terrain & Route: North face, rough terrain access. (Access via the mountains close to their glaciers).
Experience: Intermediate Level.
Afterall it is a majestic landscape where you can observe cultural diversity; along with biological diversity of the high Andean areas such as; Vicuña, Vizcacha, Andean fox, Andean face, Andean carpenter and other native species.
First day for acclimatisation & trek to Base Camp.
Leaving Cusco at 8am, until you reach Pacchanta (4,400m) around 3hrs later.
From Pacchanta you’ll begin the trek of about 1-2 hrs until reaching the Laguna Azulcocha where you’ll overnight (4,600m).
Overnight: Laguna Azulcocha.
Accommodation: Mountain Lodge.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner.
You’ll leave at around 1:00am to head towards the glacier, passing through heavy morraine for about an hour. Then hitting a rocky path for another hour and finally ascending a rock wall for about 30 minutes, level 4, until reaching the glacier.
There is a 65° degree wall that’ll take you to the next mixed section between snow, rock and hard ice. A very technical climb that will take you from the beginning of the glacier to the summit in around 4 hours and then a further 4 hours descent, followed by a 2 hour track back to base camp where you’ll rest.
Overnight: Base Camp.
Accommodation: Camping.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
This day will take us approximately 2-3 hours to switch between camps, a gradual ascent. Overnight.
Overnight: Basecamp Mariposa.
Accommodation: Camping.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
3-4 hours of portage up on mixed trails (moraine, rock) ascent to the high-camp that will take a lot of energy and for this part it’s really important that you take on good nutrition throughout the day.
Overnight: High Camp
Accommodation: Camping
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
It will take 7-8 hours of climbing on a glacier, navigation crossing ravines and walls between 55° to 65° degrees of inclination.
This will be super adrenaline climbing that requires resistance and experience to reach the summit. Once there we enjoy the rewards of the summit for 30 minutes or so.
The descent will take us 4-5 hours to the high camp and then you’ll descend to basecamp in around 2-3 hours where you’ll be greeted with a hearty meal and rest there.
Overnight: Basecamp
Accommodation: Camping
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
A descent of 3 hours to the hot springs of Pacchanta where you’ll enjoy and renew ourselves to finally have lunch and leave at 2 pm to arrive at 5 pm in Cusco.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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