Huascaran

Page Type Page Type: Trip Report
Date Date Climbed/Hiked: Jul 4, 2001
Activities Activities: Mountaineering
Seasons Season: Summer

Peru 2001

Climbing Huascaran in July 2001


July 4
SLC to Houston to Lima. Arrived in Lima at 8 p.m., stayed in a hotel over nignt.
July 5
Lima to Huaraz Took a bus from Lima at 11 a.m. to Huaraz, arrived in Huaraz at 8 p.m.
July 6
Climbing Pisco Day 1 Took a bus from Huaraz to Yungay, hired donkies and moved to base camp. It took about 4 hours to get there.
July 7
Climbing Pisco Day 2 Aclimmatization in base camp.
July 8
Climbing Pisco Day 3 Moved from base camp to maraine camp.
July 9
Climbing Pisco Day 4 Summit day, started at 3 a.m., reached the summit at 11 a.m., descended to moraine camp.
July 10
Climbing Pisco Day 5 Moved down from moraine camp to Yungay and back to Huaraz.
July 11
Huaraz Relax day in Huaraz.
July 12
Climbing Huascaran Day 1 Huaraz to Musho, hired donkies and moved to base camp.
July 13
Climbing Huascaran Day 2 Base camp to moraine camp.
July 14
Climbing Huascaran Day 3 Moraine camp to camp 1.
July 15
Climbing Huascaran Day 4 Camp 1 to camp 2.
July 16
Climbing Huascaran Day 5 Summit day, back to moraine camp.
July 17
Climbing Huascaran Day 6 Moraine camp to Musho and back to Huaraz.
July 18
Huaraz Relax day, in the evening we took the bus at 10 p.m. back to Lima.

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