Accommodation

Camping & Mountain Lodge

Guide

Professional bilingual high-mountain guide Basic knowledge of Spanish is essential & beneficial to travelers for the Climbs

Others

High-mountain Cook Muleteer & Mules All camping equipment (Sleeping bags to hire + Trekking Poles)

Meals

Breakfast x 3 Lunch x 4 Dinner x 3

Transport

Private Transport – collection & drop-off

Not included:

Others

Hotels before & after (can be organised as part of trip) Tips for crew Any additional extras 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)

Flights

International Flights Domestic Flights (can be included as part of your trip on request)

Insurance

Travel & Adventure Insurance highly recommended

Start planning your experience

Day 1 Day 1: Cusco - Tinke - Pacchanta - Campo Base
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Cusco - Tinke - Pacchanta - Campo Base

Early in the morning, at around 7am, you’ll be collected from your hotel in Cusco. Heading south-east by the Interoceanic highway that goes to Puerto Maldonado, passing through the city of Urcos and within about 3 hours arriving at Ocongate, where you’ll be able to purchase anything that is forgotten in Cusco.

Then taking a detour to Pacchanta, 45 minutes from Ocongate, we’ll meet-up with the muleteers and mountain cook for the expedition. 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 nevadas 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 use when required.

Dinner is at 6pm, allowing plenty of time for everyone to rest afterwards.

DAILY METRICS

Masl – 4,850

Time – 7-9 hrs

Meals included – Lunch, Dinner

Campsite – Qampa Base Camp
Day 2 Day 2: Training - Ice Climbing & Rappeling
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Training - Ice Climbing & Rappeling

From the basecamp of Mt Qampa, you’ll head to the base of the glacier from the opposite of the summit climb. Trekking for approximately an hour and a half you’ll cover rocky morraine before reaching the base of the glacier where we’ll look for a good ice wall to utilise for practice.

Putting on your ice climbing equipment (crampons, harness, helmet, ice axe) you’ll trek on the glacier until we reach a good section to practice techniques for summiting.

Adopting ropes for the ice walls you’ll learn how to fix yourself to stakes, anchors and climb using rope and ice axe.

Then following the climbs you’ll learn how to rappel from the ice wall using varying techniques for rappel, such as prusik & klemheist knots, figure of 8’s and learn how to belay yourself down to the foot of an icewall.

Depending on your progress, there is the option to add an additional days training to learn more about anchors, ice screws and rope knots.

This is all essential practice for your journey into beginner & intermediate level mountain climbing.

DAILY METRICS

Masl – 4,900m

Time – 6-8 hrs

Meals included – Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Campsite – Qampa Base Camp
Day 3 Day 3: Base Camp – Summit – Base Camp
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Base Camp – Summit – Base Camp

Leaving base camp at 3am, you’ll have a light breakfast, it is essential to attack a mountain at dawn. In approximately 2 hours of ascent by moraine you’ll arrive at the glacier, where you’ll prepare yourselves with the mountain equipment to enter the glacier.

After another 3 hours on the glacier, crossing penitentes and climbing a glacial wall of approximately 60° applying the techniques learnt in the day(s) previously, 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 and you’ll have the whole afternoon free to rest after a long satisfying day.

Dinner will be prepared ready for 6pm.

DAILY METRICS

Masl – 5,500

Time – 8.5-9 hrs

Meals included – Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Campsite – Qampa Base Camp
Day 4 Day 4: Base Camp – Pacchanta – Cusco
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Base Camp – Pacchanta – Cusco

Leaving at 9am for Pacchanta after breakfast.

Arriving at Pacchanta in about 3 hours where there’ll be the option to enter the thermal baths and buy handicrafts from local crafts people. Then taking lunch and returning to the city of Cusco by around 6pm.

You’ll be dropped to your hotels, and you can spend the evening relaxing and recalling an epic adventure!

DAILY METRICS

Time – 7-8 hrs

Meals included – Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

4 days tour

Trek & Climb: Nevado Qampa Training (5,500M) - 4 Or 5 Days

This tour includes:

Not included:

Start planning your experience

Itinerary of your trip Trek & Climb: Nevado Qampa Training (5,500M) - 4 Or 5 Days

Day 1: Cusco - Tinke - Pacchanta - Campo Base

Day 2: Training - Ice Climbing & Rappeling

Day 3: Base Camp – Summit – Base Camp

Day 4: Base Camp – Pacchanta – Cusco

Experience Style

Accomodation level

Experience Type

Physical Rating

Age range

Who talk about us:

Best cities to travel to

America

Europe

Asia

Africa

Oceania