Climb Pisco (5783m) & Chopicalqui (6354m) in Peru, 15-day Expedition in the Cordillera Blanca

Our Peru Llama Trek Tour leader will find you in the reception of the Lima International Airport. We will head to a hotel in Miraflores.

We will drive to Huaraz for 8 hours. If we are a big group we will travel by private van. If we are less than 10 people, we will take a touristic bus. We will arrive at a hotel in Huaraz where we will have dinner and overnight stay.

Peru Llam Trek will organize your Charity Acclimatizing hike to Cordillera Negra. Here, we can visit the local community of families in need who will benefit from this charity. 5% of all payments for this expedition will go to families from this community.

After breakfast in Hotel Huaraz, we will leave the north side. We will pass diverse villages and towns. We can make stops along the way to visit and take pictures. In the early afternoon we will arrive at Llanganuco Lakes and set up camp overnight in Cebollapampa.

We will leave from Cebollapampa to a moderate hike up to Pisco Bae Camp. It should be 5 hours of steady walking. We will arrive in the early afternoon for lunch and relaxation. We will overnight at the Base Camp on Pisco.

We will climb a challenging rock glacier then climb steeply into camp in a small sandy basin just below the end of the Moreiene glacier. We will arrive early to Morreine camp for lunch, dinner and overnight.

We will review all technical climbing skills to prepare ourselves for Mount Chopicalqui. We will practice our knots and cords, review glacier travel and crevasse rescue skills.

We will begin this day very early, around 2 AM. We can have hot energetic drinks and breakfast then begin the climb to the summit of Pisco. We will begin on the glacier then climb moderate slopes to a saddle on the ridge between Pisco and the Huandoys. As the sun rises, we will climb steeper exposed slopes, crossing frequent crevasses to the final summit bulge. The final slope is very steep so we will need excellent crampon and vertical axe techinique. After our climb, we pack up high camp and return to base camp.

Today we can all sleep until late morning and rest in the base camp. We can walk around and have some beer and just relax. We will enjoy some good food and overnight in the base camp.

We will pack up after brekafast and head to the Llanganuco Valley. We will walk down to Cebollapampa and hike up to the Choicalqui Base Camp, with an optional excursion to Lagun 69.

We will leave base camp and ascend to Moreine Camp on Choicalqui. Here we will have dinner and overnight.

Mountain breakfast in Moreine camp and then move onto the glacier and ascend to high camp. High camp sits on the flat glacier bench at 18,000 feet. Highcamp dinner and overnight at glacier.

We will have an energizing breakfast around 1 AM then attempt Chopicalquis summit. This is a summit to be incredibly proud of. In most years, only a few strong teams from around the world were successful in this summit. After the summit, we descend to Moreine camp.

We will descend to base camp. Our van will pick us up early in the afternoon and bring us to Huaraz, where we will celebrate with hot showers, good food and dancing at the local disco.

We will have a free day at Huaraz for shopping and preparing to head bad to Lima. The bus of van will go back to Lima around 10 PM or later, arriving in Lima around 6 AM. We can transfer you to the airport or hotel.