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Quitaraju Climbing – Climbing Quitaraju mountain peak in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain Range
Quitaraju is situated south-eastwards of Alpamayo. We use the same camp for climbing Alpamayo and Quitaraju, the same route from cashapampa to high camp.
Its normal route passes by its edge the west, but it is the North wall and his 600m. this climbing we can combine with Alpamayo. for all climbing in the cordillera Blanca you should be acclimatized
Quitaraju climbing you can combine with Alpamayo climb , we going to use the same high camp..
| Season | June to July |
| Climbing Grade | Difficult / Technical |
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Itinerary
Boarding our comfortable bus, we make the long drive across the Punta Conococha (4100m) to the town of Huaraz (3090m), where we check in to the group Hostal.
( tour to Churup Lake 4,450 ) acclimatisation day, with the option to make the 5- 6 hours round trip towards a viewpoint to Laguna Churup (4450m), for views of Cordillera Blanca the impressive peaks. Hostal.
( 2 hours ) passing by the city carhuaz 2,650m. , Yungay 2,530m. the old city was completely destroyed by an earthquake and enormous rock and mud avalanche on May 31,1970. from the new city one can see the full majesty of Mt.Huascaran ,the highest peak in the Peruvian andes at 6768 meters. Caraz 2,250m. is the starting point to get to Cashapampa the famous walk through the santa cruz valley and for alpamayo climbing then our gear is loaded on to the donkeys and we climb good path 4 hours to llamacorral camp at 3,700m.
After our breakfast we going to continue up passing by ichiccocha and jatuncocha lake we arrive to Alpamayo base camp 4,300m. aprox. 5 hours
We climb up to moraine camp. the donkeys can not come this way you need carry your personal gear ,climbing gear, clothes and sleeping bag and .3 Hours.
We leave climb about 15 minutes on moraine until we reach the glacier where we put on crampons and rope up there can be some steeper sections which we would help you with aprox, 4 hours to high camp.
Summit day we leave early (2:00 a.m.) to climb after 1 hour we will have ice wall 70º to inception and the last part 85º, about 7 or 8 a.m. we will be in top after 20 minutes takes photos , appreciate the amazing surrounding mountains . from the summit fantastic views of the close by the peaks of quitaraju 6,030m. jancarurish 5,570 ,rinrijirca 5,810m. artesonraju 6,025m.. descend by rapel to high camp ,where we will prepare hot soup and rest
return In the morning after breakfast we will return to base camp.
By the same way we will walk down to cashapampa 6 hours
