- Duration: 11 Days / 10 Nights
- Season: May to August
- Difficulty: Advanced Intermediate
The strategic location of Base Camp, does possible that You, can enjoy easy climbing like technical a single place, optimizing therefore the use of material and logistical support for these ascensions, without a doubt some also becoming most competitive and economic for climbers.
The peaks are so pointed and ice-clad, that it can be difficult to find an area where attractive summits are accessible to mountaineers who are anything less than expert climbers. The Ishinca, fortunately, is one such area.
Itinerary
Day 01: Huaraz – Pashpa village – Ishinca Base Camp
Transfer to the trail head Pashpa (3 670masl), where we will meet the donkey drivers. From this village we will walk up through Ishinca ravine among trees and bushes proper of this part of Cordillera Blanca, getting to base camp after four hours, where we`ll spend the first night at 4 350masl.
Day 02: Base Camp – Urus Summit – Base Camp
Urus Summit Day! Our first Andean start has you leaving camp by 4:00am. Work our way up the steep moraine to the toe of the glacier where we will put on crampons, harnesses, and rope up. Weave your way to the summit, usually arriving around 11am. Celebrate! Return down to base camp for a well-earned dinner and sleep!
Day 03: Rest day
Rest day.Exploring the place
Day 04: Base Camp – Ishinca Summit – Base Camp
Very early we leave from the camp site toward to Ishinca Lake (4 900m). Then we are climbing on the moraine to after pass to reach the final slope that go to the summit. Our aim is to be early on top to enjoy the sunrise and the great views to the other peaks. After a good break on the summit, we go back to the base camp. This journey is about 9 to 12 hours depending on fitness.Climbing Urus 5
Day 05: Weather day or resting
Rest day
Day 06: Base Camp – Camp
Taking your essentials, we will leave for the high glacier camp of our final mountain, Tocllaraju. It usually takes 6 hours to reach the camp at 5 000masl. Enjoy an unforgettable dinner while mesmerized by Tocllaraju impressive west face. We get to sleep early for the next day’s climb.
Day 07: Camp 01 – Tocllaraju Summit – Base Camp
An early start today… wake up at 12:00 midnight and after a light breakfast depart for the summit by around 2:00am. We will work our way across the saddle and begin the classic assent up Toclla’s north ridge. Things get steeper as you climb, with two sections of 60-80 degree snow and/or ice. Return to high camp typically around 2:00pm and after a rest and some warm food; continue back down to base camp for dinner and sleep.
Day 08: Base Camp – Pashpa – Huaraz
We start the day walking down hill along the Ishinca valley arriving to the trail head Pashpa where we aboard the transport and come back to Huaraz. We walk approximately three hours.
Services included in the prices:
Lima transfers all land transport involved in the itinerary, hotel accommodation in Huaraz on a Bed and Breakfast basis. Once on trek, a full service, including food and all equipment (excluding personal equipment) is included in the trek price.
- Food while on the mountain
- Park Fees
- Group climbing and cooking gear
- Scheduled restaurant meals
- Pack animals and porters for group gear
- Ground transportation from Lima and return and while in the mountains
Not Included:
Travel insurance, meals other than breakfasts when staying in hotels in Lima and Huaraz, sleeping bags, personal trekking gear. Tips for trek staff, Lima Airport departure tax, miscellaneous personal expenses – beer, tips, souvenirs etc.
- Airfare
- Personal equipment
- Tips.
- Alcoholic beverages
- Unscheduled hotel nights and restaurant meals
- Trip and medical/evacuation insurance
- Items of a personal nature; phone calls, laundry, room service and so forth
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