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Ojos Del Salado Ascent
offered by supplier M06028 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 12
day(s)
Group Size: 1
- 20
people
Destination(s):
Chile
Specialty Categories:
Hiking & Trekking
Camping
Season: November - March
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 1804 US Dollar (USD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 2062 US Dollar (USD)
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Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: We meet you before 14:00 hrs. in Copiapó (airport, buses terminal or hotel), or in Caldera and go to to Vallecito 3.100 m located at 120 km. from Copiapó (2 hours). Vallecito is a little Oasis to the feet of an abandoned mine of semi precious stones, the place is full of “Colas de Zorro”, one of the few food plants that sheep and goats eat. There we will camp and we will have a short trekking of 1 hour by soft terrain with little stones and no more than 20º. We will have dinner at 20.00 and we will sleep after that.
Day 2: Breakfast at 08:30 hrs. then we will lay up our camp at 10:00 hrs. We go in our vehicles to Laguna Santa Rosa 3.780 m at 154 km. from Copiapó. Laguna Santa Rosa is a beautiful place where you can see flamingos (known as “Parinas” in the North of Chile), guanacos, and of course a beautiful lagoon. In this place we will set our camp and we will have lunch at 13:30. At 15:00 hrs, we will have a hike around the lagoon of about one hour, by smooth road. We will have dinner at 20.00.
Day 3: Breakfast at 08:00, we start at 09:00 to a trekking to cerro "Siete Hermanos" 4.780 m. This hike takes about 4 hours up to the summit and by a footpath up to the 4.000. and then by steep and rocky road ( 25º to 35º). The weather is usually sunny and windy and the Tº is between 15ºC and 20ºC. We will come back to the camp to have lunch about 15.00, we will rest during the afternoon to have dinner at 20.00.
Day 4: Breakfast at 08:30. We will take down our camp to go to Custom Office in Maricunga. We will get there after a trip of one hour to show there our permission of climbing and passports. Then we will continue to Laguna Verde, 4.340 m.to set there our camp next to a hot water spring. We will have lunch about 14:00 hours. Afternoon you can take a bath in the hot spring and we will have dinner at 20.00.
Day 5: Breakfast at 8:00 h. We start to a trekking at 9:00 to Cº Mulas Muertas, only up to 5.000 m. this hike takes about 3 hours up and 2 down, the way is rocky and it’s usually very windy, after that we will go back to our camp and we will have lunch about 14:30 hrs. We will rest by the afternoon and we will have dinner at 20:00 hrs.
Day 6: Breakfast at 08:30. At 11:00 we will go to Atacama shelter, at 5.260 m. in our vehicles. Climbers must walk from 5.000 mt. (2 hrs) up to the shelter. The hike goes by the vehicle track (sandy and rocky terrain , 15º). The equipment continues on the vehicles. Lunch at 14:30 in the camp. Resting in the afternoon, dinner at 20.00. In this place, night temperatures may go from -10ºC, to -15ºC.
Day 7: Breakfast at 08:30 and carrying food and equipment to Tejos refuge 5.837 m. This hike takes 3 hours by a vehicles track of 20º to 30º. Each member of the expedition have to carry at least 1 Kg. of common equipment (food, kitchen, combustible, rope, etc.). In Refugio Tejos we will rest for about 30 min. And then we will go back to Atacama refuge to have lunch. This walk takes 1 hour. After lunch we will rest. Dinner at 20:00.
Day 8: Breakfast at 08:30 0 and will have lunch at 12:00, in order to go with all our equipment to Refugio "Tejos". Each climber must carry all his equipment. Dinner at 19:00 hours and sleeping in Tejos Refuge (or nearby if occupied).
Day 9: This day we will wake up very early, breakfast about 04:00 AM. In order to prevent the strong wind and to start to our First Summit Attempt (walking up to the summit takes about 8 hours or less). This day you will have very hard temperatures( -25ºC a -30º C), strong winds above 80 Km./Hr. This climbing is made over a very clear and sandy track of 15º to 40º. After a 6 hour walk we will get to the crater of the volcano, from there we will walk by big rocks up to the feet of the last climbing. From there and up to the summit we will go through 30 mt at 6.860 m. in a rock climbing of 5.6 dificulty grade on the American Scale. Our company supply ropes for crossing the glacier and for this rock climbing. In the very summit may be 6 climbers. After 15 minutes in the summit we will begin to return. Returning to Refugio Tejos takes about 4 hours, there, we will have a hot drink.
Day 10: Extra day. We can use this day for another summit attempt.
Day 11: Breakfast at 09.00, taking down our camp and beginning our returning to Copiapó at 11.00 hours in our vehicles. At 13:00 we will have some food in route and we will get to your hotel in Copiapó or Caldera about 17.00.
Day 12: Breakfast at your hotel at 09.00 and during the day transfer to the airport.
* Day Personal Equipment needed:
- Mattress
- Back pack of 20 l
- Travel Bag for no more than 80 l for your personal equipment
- Personal cleanliness elements (toothbrush, soap, towel, comb, etc.)
- Sleeping bag for below -25ºC
- Insurance for personal accidents, equipment loosing, sicknesses, hospital emergencies, extra or incidental expenses, (“Seguro de vida en viaje”), (These insurances are not sold in Chile to people without residence).
- Extra clothes and bathing suit for the day in the hot spring.For the “Summit Day”:
- 1st 2nd y 3rd layers, ideal feather anorak for -30ºC
- Gloves 3 layers (insulation, warming and wind stopper)
- Plastic shoes
- Crampons
- Termic Bottle (“Thermo”) of at least a liter
- Sticks or marching axe. For acclimatization hikes:
- 1st and 2nd layers, optional 3rd coat
- Trekking shoes
- Resting (or “refuge”) shoes
- Solar protection , hat, sun creams, UV lenses
- Sticks or axe.
* Equipment supplied by us:
- Camp common equipment: Tables, chairs, dishes, silverware (knife, spoon, fork, tea spoon), glasses for hot and cold drinks, lamps, dinning tent for 8 to 10 people.
- First Aid box, movil oxygen equipment
- 2 Radios VHF (to comunícate with camps), by every 4 climbers
- Mountain tents for 2 people , with “duroaluminium” sticks, model Ferrino Stardust, Lafuma Camp2, The North Face VE-25 or similar
- During camps with vehicle, we use stoves with butangas of 5 kg
- During high altitude camps we use small butano-propano stoves 80/20 or 70/30.
- 4 WD vehicles 2000 or newer for 4 climbers each. If necessary, we use without 4WD Vans for approaching trips
- We provide 1 Mountain Guide with experience in the zone by every 4
climbers and camp assistants and conductors or cookers when necessary for more than 4 climbers expeditions
* Food:
- We provide breakfast, lunch, dinner and summit food during
our expeditions
- Breakfast: Coffee or tea, oak, cornflakes, long life bread, marmalade, low cream milk, butter, jam, cheese, eggs 2 times during the exp.
- Lunch and dinner: spaghetti, soups, rice, cow meat, chicken meat, fresh salads the first days, Canned goods the next days, canned green salads (summit days), canned fish, etc, milk desserts, fresh fruits when possible and then canned fruits Chilean Wines, coffee , tea or herb water
- Summit food: Chocolates, candies, drayed fruits, peanuts, raisins, almond, isotonic juices, water
- Water: We recommend to drink unless 3 liters a day by each climber. We supply all the water necessary
- Emergency food: We supply extra food for 3 more days apart from that of the expedition program.
* Transfer:
- We provide the transfer to the airport at the begin and at the end of the expedition.
* Guide functions:
- A Mountain Guide is a Professional of the mountain tourism and the principal chief of the expedition. His aim is to guide the group by the best route and with the best weather conditions to the summit and to the camps again. Personal security of the climbers is one of the most important duties, so his decisions can’t be discussed by any climber. Our programs can be changed in some of their parts
and, if necessary, you can talk with the Guide before about it.
(i.e.- To change an acclimatization day for a summit day). Assistants are to serve people and they receive orders only from the guide.
* Duties of the expedition members:
- To Obey the Guide’s instructions
- To Participate actively in the group in order to get the aims. To have good will and cooperation.
- To help a partner in difficulties. None may remain alone in the
mountain.
- To Inform the Guide as soon as possible, when a trouble may become a problem.
* Amount of climbers by group:
- We can give service from 1 (one), up to 20 (twenty) climbers by expedition. The best number by expedition is 7.
- The climbing season goes from November to March and the best time is December, January and the beginning of March.
- The price is the same if you get the summit or not. In all cases payment must be done before beginning the expedition: 30% to confirm your reservation, and at least with a month in advance, and the balance at the beginning of the exp.
- If you can’t participate in an expedition you reserved, you can use that value (30%) for another expedition in another date.
*Security and rescue:
- In Atacama Region there is a system of rescue in the mountain formed by Carabineros (Polices) and the Army. They decided that any emergency below 4.000m. will be done by Carabineros and above that altitude by the Army Patrols. Mountains in Atacama Region don’t have rock climbing problems and the principal health problems are related with bad acclimatization and the very low temperatures that sometimes go below the -30ºC.
Most of these problem are related with climbers that climb alone or with guides with poor experience. Our enterprise has a system of swift evacuation. It consists in to have in every moment a vehicle and its conductor for transport the climber with these problems to
a hospital in Copiapó (260 km From Ojos del Salado) and 3 to 5 hours of travel. This service has a cost of US$200 by trip. In Copiapó there are hospitals (public and private) that can assist any health
problem during the 24 hours.and most of them accept Credit Cards.
No Helicopter services in the Region but the airport has unless 2 flights a day to Santiago.
* Physical Demands:
- Although none of the programmed ascents are technically difficult they demand great physical endurance and stamina, therefore, it is important to be in good shape to reach the summit. Oxygen deprivation or "puna" will affect everyone to some extent, however, we will gradually climb to higher altitudes.
* Physical and Medical Certificates:
- These mountains expeditions requires the passenger to be physically qualified to be accepted on the trip. It is so, each passenger will be asked to answer and send ahead a short query in order to evaluate his (her) physical condition and gain and idea of his (her) most probable performance at the mountain. Also, all expedition members are asked to bring a medical certificate that verifies him/her can safely attempt the physical challenge under severe climate and altitude conditions. All of these have proven to be particularly necessary when joining one of our fixed departures dates in which people of different ages, preparation and nationalities form the team of excursionists.
* Accommodation:
- Most of the nights during the expeditions will be spent in 2-person tents. In cities and towns night will be spend in small and nice hotel inns.
* For all mountain expeditions:
- Each passenger will be asked to carry his(her) own personal items shouldering a back-pack loaded with his extra clothing, sleeping bag, pad, daily box-lunch and others. The common equipment, food and tents will be distributed among the staff and the passengers; The camp setting will be in general responsibility of both the guiding Staff and the trip's participants. The cooking will be more likely responsibility of the guiding staff with the active help of the participants.
- In the altitude camps the trip members will be provided with a stove and dishes in order to melt snow, boil water and get the ready-made meals done for eating; If the weather gets troublesome your optimistic attitude and help will be very necessary; In this type of expedition teamwork and support are expected to achieve our goals;
* Changes on the itinerary:
- Reasonable changes may be made in the itinerary because of the weather conditions or if judged to be in the best interest and well being of the participants; In the itineraries there are one or two extra days, in case we do not reach the summit on the first attempt or in case of bad weather. If we succeed on the first attempt we will then decide, depending on our guide's judgment, to either extend the excursion on the mountain or to come down before the scheduled time.
* Climate:
- Each expedition dossier contains fully detailed information in this matter however consider that over 6.000 m/ 19.500 ft the temperature drops to -30ºC and can reach +30ºC during the day.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Prices Season 07/08 (Oct-Apr):
- USD 2,062 p/p (2 people)
- USD 1,804 p/p (3 up people).
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