Best time:
May to September
Timing: For 13 days
Grade: moderate / difficult
Day 1:
Arrive to Huaraz
Day 2 & 3: Acclimatisation days
Day 4: Huaraz - Cashapampa - Llamacorral
We drive north in a private bus along the
Callejón de Huaylas passing through
different districts such as: Carhuas (2650m),
Yungay (2500m) and to Caraz city (2400m),
Then we drive up to Cashapampa where the Donkey
Driver will be waiting for us to transport
our Camping equipments , from here we will
start hiking up to the first camp Llamacorral.
Overnight camping at (3760m).
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Day 5: Llamacorral -
Taullipampa
We will hike along the Santa Cruz Valley.
It is a fearly easy walking and we will pass
the beautiful turquoise lakes called Ichikcocha
and Jatuncocha. There is an optional hike
up to the Alpamayo base camp, and then we
will return on a short cut path for few hours
to the next camp at Taullipampa (4250m).
Day 6: Llamacorral - Punta Union Pass
- Cachinapampa
A wonderful day as we will start hiking up
for about 3 and half hours to the Punta Union
pass (4750m) where we will have lunch enjoying
the splendid views of the mountains, landscapes,
matching its natural mountain colours in the
blue sky, the white mountains. The we will
descend for about 3 hours to Cachinapampa
camp site at (3750m).
Day 7: Cachinapampa - Molinopampa
We continue walking down to Colcabamba town
for about 2 hours approximately, then we walk
up for an hour more to get a good place camp
to have lunch enjoying the nice views of contrahiervas
mountain range, then we will go to the next
camp at Molinopampa (3600m) |
Day 8:
Molinopampa _ Avalanche camp
From our Camp we walk uphill for about 4
hours to our next camp at Avalanche camp
4500m. From our camp we will be rewarded
with wonderful avalanche fallings and tremendous
mountain views.
Day 9: Avalanche camp _ Ulta Valley
_ Huaraz
From the camp we walk for an hour to the
Pass Punta yanayacu at 4850m, and then we
descend in a nice valley surrounded by big
mountains like chopicalqui, Huascaran and
ulta. On the route the bus will be waiting
for us to take back to our Huaraz Hotel
Day 10: Leaving Huaraz
early we drive a short way north, downstream
in the Callejon de Huaylas. Then we turn
east and climb up to the town of Collón.
From here, we load our equipment on burros
and begin the easy trek into Base Camp.
The trek normally takes only about 4 hours.
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Day 11: Rest
Day or extra day in case bad weather
Day 12: We attemp the summit
of Urus (4450 Slightly steeper climbing
and more complicated moraine travel.
Day 13: We climb the summit
of Ishinca (5550m). Slightly steeper climbing
and more complicated glacier travel will
take us to one of the awesome summits in
the valley.
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14: With the help of porters,
we'll move to high camp (4900m.) and afternoon
rest and preparation for the summit attempt
for the following day.
Day 15: Summit day Tocllaraju
(6035m) This is an excellent climb for
climbers who want to summit a 6,000 meter
peak. This is a relatively easy 6,000
meter peak. In the afternoon we descend
to the base camp.
Day 16: Return to Huaraz
and celebrate
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