Mt Aconcagua & Marmolejo

This Day we meet at the hotel or in our agency to review the itinerary, guides presentation and check the personal equipment.

• Max altitude: 500 masl
• Lodging: Hostel
• Meals: no
• Transport: 4WD or Mini Van
• Scheme: Airport pick up and transfer to hostel, equipment checking

• Max altitude: 2500 masl
• Lodging: Refuge
• Meals: box-lunch, diner
• Transport: 4WD or Mini Van
• Scheme: Trekking El Morado National Park, acclimatization.

We head from Baños Morales to Cabrerio area at the San José de Maipo Valley endings. Once there, we load up the horses and then we head to our base camp (3.600masl).

• Max altitude: 3600 masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, diner
• Transport: 4WD or Mini Van
• Scheme: Trekking approach and acclimatization, camp set-up, cooking.

We move to camp1 (Plateau), place where we’ll be able to see for the first time Marmolejo’s summit.

• Max altitude: 4100masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast,box-lunch, diner
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Trekking approach to camp 1 with expedition bag-pack on, camp set-up, cooking, acclimatization.

• Max altitude: 4900 masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Trekking approachto camp 2 with expedition bag-pack on, camp set-up, cooking, acclimatization.

We’ll set up a third camp at 5100masl at the very glacier itself (Marmolejo glacier).

• Max altitude: 5100masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Trekking approachto camp high, with expedition bag-pack on, camp set-up, cooking, acclimatization.

In this day, we’ll reach for Marmolejo summit peak, which is at 6.108masl, and then head back to base camp.

• Max altitude: 6108masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Climb Marmolejo, cooking,

We move to base camp with all gear.

• Max altitude: from 4900 to 3600masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: No
• Scheme: set down and up the camp, cooking, trekking back to BC

From base camp, we’ll head right back to Santiago.

• Max altitude: from 3600 to 500masl
• Lodging: Hostel
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch.
• Transport: 4WD or Mini Van
• Scheme: Trekking, drive to your hotel.

On this day the members are free to visit santiago and rest. around 18:00 we will have a meeting to load our vehicles and drive by night to Mendoza with all mountain gear, with this we want to avoid lose any luggage in the airport.

• Max altitude: 500masl
• Lodging: Hostel
• Meals: *Breakfast at the Hostal
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Resting in Santiago, drive to mendoza by night in our vehicules, justr for HME satff and luggage of our members.

We travel at night to Mendoza in orther to get there in the morning to buy climbing permit.

• Max altitude: 3200masl
• Lodging: Refuge
• Meals: *Box-lunch
• Transport: 4WD or Mini Van
• Scheme: Transport to Penitentes, get the climbing permit.

 At noon we’ll be ready with this paperwork, then we head to Penitentes village to spend the night at 3200masl.

• Max altitude: 3200masl
• Lodging: Refuge
• Meals: Box-lunch
• Transport: 4WD or Mini Van
• Scheme: Transport to Penitentes, get the climbing permit.

We’ll head towards Confluencia Camp where we’ll acclimatize in order to not force the body into critical conditions and thus have optimal chances of success.

• Max altitude: 3300masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Trekking, Camp take-up, cooking, acclimatization.

We’ll start the approach towards Plaza de Mulas where we’ll set up the base camp. We’ll stay there for a couple of days.

• Max altitude: 4,260masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Trekking, camp take-down and up, cooking, acclimatization.

We’ll trekking to the next camp “Nido de Cóndores”. Then we’ll head back to base camp to spend the night. This is a key process to our expedition because we’ll get to a 5,300 masl and then we’ll head back to sleep at 4.260mts, which is optimal for acclimatisation work.

• Max altitude: 5,300masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: NO
• Scheme: Aclimatization trekking, cooking.

• Max altitude: 5,300masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Trekking, camp take-down and up, cooking, acclimatization.

From this point we’ll be at just one camp to the final camp, Colera Camp. This camp is placed over the 5.900mts. We’ll leave early morning in order to set up this camp and then spend the night at that altitude. This camping is due to modifications according to the lead guide criteria which will take the possibility of reach summit or not from the Nido de Cóndores camp.

• Max altitude: 5970masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Trekking, camp take-down and up, cooking, acclimatization.

This should be the most important day of our expedition, since we’ll take it to the Aconcagua’s summit on this day. From Berlin camp to the summit is about a 1.000mts upwards which can be overpass after 10 to 12 hours hike.

• Max altitude: 6962masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Climb Aconcagua, cooking.

We’ll take down the high camp and head back to base camp (Plaza de Mulas).

• Max altitude: 5300masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Trekking, camp take-down and up, cooking.

this will be our last day in the Park, in which we will take all our equipment in a 7 hours walk to the park entrance, where will be waiting our transport.

• Lodging: Hostel
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch.
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: Trekking, camp take-down, cooking, Drive to Santiago

The whole group will be driven to the airport.

• Lodging: No
• Meals: *Breakfast
• Transport: 4WD or Mini Van
• Scheme: Airport transfer (optional)