A great trek and climb plan for trekkers who’d like to get into the discipline of mountain climbing. Trek a topographically interesting mountain route in the first days of your adventure. On the last day climb one of the best introductory 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 Qampa (pronounced Jampa, also spelled Campa), is the easiest; and one of the most popular mountains in Cusco and may be climbed without experience in mountaineering. It requires a glacier hike and sometimes a small rock climbing pass depending on the season. Afterwards, on your arrival at the summit the effort offers you an incredible panoramic view; that reaches to Salkantay over 200km in a north western direction.
Nevado del Inka is an introductory level mountain with some relatively steep gradient icewalls (55°) to climb before summiting. It is still an excellent mountain for those looking for their first ascents in mountaineering.
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.
Highlights
✓ Climb one of the famous mountains of the Cordillera Vilcanota, Ausangate region.
✓ Climb & ascend on one the easiest mountains for beginners to glacial climbing.
✓ Trekking, Rock climbing & Snow Climbing Level PD (little difficult).
Expedition Notes
Basic knowledge of Spanish is essential & beneficial to travelers for the Climbs
Good physical fitness required & preferably some experience trekking at altitude +4,000m-5,000m
Recommended to bring a positive attitude with the flexibility to adapt to mountain conditions
Included
Breakfast x 6
Lunch x 7
Dinner x 6
Private Transport – collection & drop-off
Professional bilingual high-mountain guide
High-mountain Cook
Muleteer & Mules
All camping equipment (Sleeping bags to hire + Trekking Poles)
Not Included
International Airfare
Hotels before & after (can be organised as part of trip)
Tips for crew
Any additional extras
Domestic flights (can be organised as part of trip)
Crampons, Ice Axe, Harness, Helmet (can be hired as part of trip)
Machu Picchu Extension – Entrance Tickets, Transport & Guide (can be organised as part of trip)
Joining Arrangements
There will be a pre-trek briefing held usually the evening before departure, at your hotel, to go over the details of the trek and any specific requirements not already captured.
Food & Water
Prior to setting off we recommend you steer clear of street food and only eat in good restaurants, to avoid any stomach complaints. Likewise with tap water, it is largely untreated, please only consume bottled water only or sterilised water if you have the right equipment.
Special Diets
We’ll ensure that we cater for all of your dietary needs, at the point of booking we’ll collect this information from you. We can secure special menu requests also for your trek party.
Trekking Crew
We are able to customise our treks to suit you, but usually our treks are guided by a professional bilingual guide, mountain cook, arriero (horseman) and mules to carry all equipment (passenger horses also available on request). They become a large part of your trekking expedition and it’s a great experience working together.
Acclimatisation
This is a really important part of your trip planning process, please find a link below which explains a little more about preparing for altitude. Altitude Preparation
Preparation
Attached below are a couple of links which will explain how to prepare for your trip & trek in advance of your arrival. We recommend being prepared in advance to save time & stress whilst you’re in Peru. Trip Planning|Trek Planning
Machu Picchu
An excursion to Machu Picchu can be included as part of your trip, including professional bilingual guide, entrance tickets, return trip bus tickets, Huayna Picchu & Machu Picchu Mountains (mountain climbs to be confirmed on reservation) & your return train ticket to Cusco. To be confirmed on reservation.
Reservation
Please contact us to reserve your trek and we will send you our deposit & payment options.
Customer Service
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Leaving at 8 am heading southeast of the City of Cusco, destination Pacchanta, an Andean Alpaca community located at 4,400 masl that has hot springs, more than 10 routes for rock climbers from beginner to advanced level and also has mountains to practice Andinism or high mountain climbing.
Arriving by 11 am, after lunch you’ll begin the trek, taking about 4 hours to reach the base camp, with impressive views of the main snow-capped Cusco region such as: Ausangate (6384 masl), Cayangate (6110 masl) and others, always accompanied by llamas and alpacas of the region.
Already at the base camp, your personal high mountain equipment (harnesses, crampons, ice axes, helmets, leggings, gloves) will have been delivered. Your mountain guide will teach you the correct way of using the equipment, how to act on a glacier and have them ready for promotion when required.
Overnight: Base Camp
Accommodation: Camping
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
02
Summit Qampa - Suyrupata - Hatun Finaya
Leaving at 3am, you’ll have a light breakfast, it is essential to attack a mountain at dawn. You’ll leave the base camp and in approximately 2 hours of ascent by moraine arriving at the glacier, where you’ll prepare yourselves with the mountain equipment to enter the glacier. After another 3 hours on the glacier you’ll reach the summit of the Qampa mountain which is 5,500 meters above sea level.
Taking half an hour on the summit to rest and enjoy the high Andean landscapes, surrounded by the snowy mountains of the Cordillera Vilcanota. The descent to the base camp will take a further 3 hours, where lunch awaits.
After lunch you'll descend gradually for 2 hours to Suyrupata, then continuing the descent for 1 hour and then ascending 1 hour to Hatun Finaya where you'll sleep at 4600m, near the nevados of Ausangate and Mariposa which are both epic mountains of interest to climbers from around the world.
Overnight: Hatun Finaya
Accommodation: Camping
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
03
Hatun Finaya - Palomani Pass - Pukacocha
It will be between 2-3 hours to reach El Paso Palomani (5,100 masl), and then descending for an hour to the Ausangate lagoon where you'll have lunch at 4600 masl.
Then ascending to El Paso Ausangate at 4900 masl and finally descending to Pukacocha 4600 masl, where you'll have dinner and sleep in front of the face. The West face is the most immense of Ausangate and surrounded by beautiful turquoise lagoons.
Today it will take around 2 hours to reach the Pukamoqo pass at 4,900 masl, then descending for 2 hours to Anantapata at 4,600 masl.
Taking lunch here and continuing onwards for about 2 hours to the next pass of Warmisaya 4900 masl; before the final descent for an hour to the Suyrucocha lagoon where you'll sleep at 4,600 masl near the Rainbow Mountain.
Overnight: Suyrucocha Laguna
Accommodation: Camping
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
05
Suyrucocha - Winikunka - Base Camp Nevado Inka
Leaving early; it's a 2-hour walk to Winikunka or Mountain of Colors located at 5080 masl, to see the sunrise and be the first to see this natural beauty, enjoying some time taking photos and learning about the area.
Descending for 2 hours to the base camp of Nevado del Inka where you'll take lunch, dinner and rest.
Overnight: Basecamp
Accommodation: Camping
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
06
Base camp - Red Valley - Rainbow Mountain - Base Camp
Today will be a walk around the Red Valley of gradual ascent of 2 hours plus 1 hour to reach the Rainbow Mountain where you'll arrive at 7am; being the first to enjoy the summit.
Continuing with the itinerary to descend to the Base Camp if Nevado del Inka where lunch will be taken and rest. Ready for the final attack on the Nevado del Inka the next day.
Overnight: Basecamp
Accommodation: Camping
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
07
Base camp - Summit Nevado Inka - Base camp - Cusco
Leaving early in the morning towards the glacier; which’ll take us 3 hours and from there it will be 3-4 hours to the summit of the Nevado del Inka (5,320m) from where we’ll have views of the Rainbow Mountain and other glaciers around.
Today you’ll have a 60m wall climb; 55° degrees of inclination where you’ll use stakes and screws for such an ascent. At the end of the climb, you’ll leave the mountain rappelling, it will take around 2 hours to get out off the glacier and then 2 hours to reach the base camp where lunch waits!
Afterwards, returning to Cusco in approximately 3 hours. An epic journey, it’s never goodbye, only until the next time!!
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.
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