Climbing Alpamayo, 7-day expedition in Peru

After breakfast at the Hotel, we leave Huaraz with our private transport to the town of Cashapampa (3 hours drive approximately). During this trip, we will pass through many Andean villages of Callejón de Huaylas and we will observe many mountains of the Cordil-lera Blanca range such as Huascarán, which is the highest tropical mountain in the world. In Cashapampa town, our Arriero awaits us so we can begin the trek through the Santa Cruz valley until Llamacorral Camp (our first base camp). The trek takes 5 hours approxi-mately.

This day we will enjoy the view of two beautiful lagoons called “Laguna Ichiccocha” and “Laguna Jatuncocha”, which translated into Spanish would mean “small lagoon” and” large lagoon”. Also we will enjoy the views of mountains such as Alpamayo, Quitaraju and Artezonraju considered the Paramount Picture. The walking takes 6 hours approximately.

After a good breakfast and lunch at Base Camp, we will walk up along a zigzag trail for 2 hours approximately until we reach the Moraine Camp. The climbing materials is carried by porters.

After breakfast we begin our ascent to the High Camp. From this point we start using mountain equipment such as rope, crampons, ice axes, etc. The ascension takes 6 hours approximately.

Our ascent to the summit starts very early. From the summit of Alpamayo we can enjoy the view of many other mountains with the sunrise. The ascension route is the French direct route that has a wall of 420 meters approximately. The descent is made with several rappels. It takes between 9 to 12 hours in total.
(Optional: This day we can go down to the Base Camp).

This is a quiet day. We descend the same route of ascension to the Base Camp, which takes 5 hours approximately.

After a good breakfast, we start the way back through the Santa Cruz Valley towards Cashapampa village It takes 7 hours approximately. Then by private transport we leave the village to Huaraz which takes 3 hours plus approximately.