Mountain – Pisco

MOUNTAIN PISCO: 03D/02N

Maximum altitude: 5752 m. (Pisco summit).
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 3 days / 2 nights.
Preferred time: May – September.
Location: Cordillera Blanca.
Average temperature: Between 13° C – 23° C during the day/ at night -05°C to – 02°C.

DAY 01: HUARAZ –CEBOLLAPAMPA –BASE CAMP OF PISCO (3 100 – 4 650) m.s.n.m TRANSPORT (03HRS) WALKING (2.5)

After the breakfast in the Hotel, from Huaraz we will aboard the Bus to go along the Callejón de Huaylas in the north side of Huaraz. Passing different traditional Andean towns, first arriving and making the first stop in Carhuas (2650m), here we will find the traditional made at home Ice-Creams from local fruits, then we will continue with our travel to the next stop in the ancient town of Yungay, this city was buried by an Avalanche that fell down from Huascarán Mountain in 1970, the New Yungay (2500m), from here we have to start going up to the Llanganuco Valley, for the entrance to the Llanganuco Valley we will register in the National Huascaran Park Control, after we will visit the two lakes of Llanganuco ( Chinancocha and Orconcocha), where we will have Lunch, then we will continue walking up to the Base Camp Pisco, From where We will appreciate the fantastic peaks of the Mountains, Huascaran, Chopicalqui, Pisco, Huandoys. We will arrive to the base Camp Pisco accompanied by the donkey drivers and mountain staff around 3 pm. overnight at 4650m.

DAY 02: PISCO BASE CAMP – SU MMIT – BASE CAMP (4650 – 5752) m.s.n.m AVERAGE TIME (08 -10HRS)

 Wake-up around midnight or 1:00 a.m. and after a very light breakfast we star to walk by the moraine for approx. 2 .5 hours then here we’ll have to put our climbing equipment to start climbing up to the Pisco Summit 5752m, after climbing up for about 1 hour we’ll get a quite all of 40 mtrs and 45 ° of difficult, after this all we have to climbing for about 2 hours half to get the Summit, where we’ll enjoy the nice views of different mountains such as: Artesonraju, Alpamayo, Caraz, Huascaran, Chopicalqui, Yanapaccha, Chacraraju, Brogui, Huandoys, etc., Then we star climb down, 02 hours on the glacier then 2.5 more hours on the moraine to the Refugio. Overnight at the Refugio. 

DAY 03: BASE CAMP – LAKE 69 –CEBOLLAPAMPA (4650 – 4000)

After the last breakfast in the Base Camp of Pisco Mountain, we will take the trail which connect to lake 69 by high trail around for 2.5 hours, spending 30 minutes enjoying the beautiful landscape at the lake, then to descend by the normal 69 lake’s trail to Cebollapampa for about 2 more hours, there will take our transport to Yungay then to Huaraz, and after we will meet in the evening at home for a Traditional Dinner where our Service end.