Best time:
May to October
Timing: For 10 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).
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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.
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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: Huaraz - Cebollapampa -
Base Camp Pisco
We drive north and from Yungay we drive
up to the Llanganuco Valley. We drive on
a side of the twin lakes of Llanganuco,
and then we will continue going up to the
Base Camp of Pisco (4600m) on the way will
have impressive peaks like Huascarán,
Chopicalqui, Pisco, Huandoy, and others.
Afternoon check climbing equipments. 4 hours |
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11: Base Camp Pisco - Moraine Camp
We will leave camp at 11 am carrying all
our climbing gear up to the moraine camp
at 4900m; You will carry your personal
gear and food, tent and team climbing
gear will carry our porters and guides.
4 hours
Day 12: Moraine Camp - Summit
Pisco - Base Camp Pisco
We will have breakfast at 2:00am, and
we will hike up for 1-hour aprox on the
rocky path and then put on our climbing
gear to walk in the glacier on a fairly
steep walk up to the summit (5750m). From
the summit we will have a splendour views
of mountains Huascarán, Chopicalqui,
Chacraraju, Artesonraju, Huandoy after
enjoying the mountain views we will return
to Base Camp.
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Day 13: Base Camp
Pisco - Cebollapampa - Huaraz
After having our last breakfast on the
base camp of the Pisco, we will descend
to Cebollapampa where the bus we be waiting
take us back Huaraz
Day 14: Huaraz _ Lima
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