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Cordillera Occidental (Chile / Bolivia) > Parinacota > Climber's Log|
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| MountainHikerCO | From Bolivia  Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2000 | |
| Climbed up to the saddle from the Bolivian side. Probably then crossed into Chile to get to where we accessed the glacier. Lots of ice penitentes on the glacier in rows perpendicular to the fall line. | |
| Posted Dec 31, 2007 2:08 pm | ||
| tatraman | Parinacota ski descent Date Climbed: May 20, 2006 | |
| we climbed from the coll between Parinacota and POmerape and skied down afetrwards. Great views into the crater, long walk, technically absolutelly easy. Fierce winds and very low temperatures at dawn, though (below - 25deg. C) | |
| Posted Sep 25, 2007 7:12 am | ||
| Peak_Bagger | Snowy Ascent Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2005 | |
| Big storm came in and dropped 1/2 m of fresh snow. Wish I had my board with me. Pretty grueling snow plow up to the summit in 7 hrs from base camp, but a quick 1 hr glisaade back down. | |
| Posted Apr 17, 2007 5:02 am | ||
| Fabrice.Rimlinger | Custom Route ! Date Climbed: Apr 7, 2006 | |
| Solo from Sajama and first to summit this year. Snowed the night before and climbing was tough ! 7h from BC to summit... the best part was coming down, sitting on top my backpack.. big fun ! | |
| Posted Nov 11, 2006 3:33 pm | ||
| FrançoisJ | Route Climbed : Normal Bolivian side Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2005 | |
| Pika and I circled round the crater rim of Parinacota on 28th of july 2005. As I wanted to know where really was located the highest point of its crater, I brought my GPS with me. It appears that neither north summit nor south summit is the real summit, not because they have rather equal height (6347 m vs 6348 m, +/- 1 m, who can tell?) but because North-west summit is about 10 meters higher than both of them (6357 m). Absolute heights may not be accurate but differences of height could be considered such as. Many thanks to Pika and all Planetaventura(.com) team! | ||
| Posted Feb 15, 2006 5:41 pm | ||
| gnome | Route Climbed: Bolivian Date Climbed: 12 October 2006 | |
| Went back there, but this time from the bolivian side, and this time summit ! Went up in 7 hours from the base camp located between Pomerape and Parinacota. Perfect weather, a bit of cold before sunrise and penitents on the last 300 meters. Amazing views of the crater and of Sajama. I did the climb with Ignacio, a "guide" from Sajama village (approx 100 USD, including 4x4 approach from/to Sajama). | |
| Posted Jan 16, 2006 10:32 am | ||
| Bergrot | Route Climbed: Normal Bolivia Date Climbed: 7 Nov 2002 | |
| Walked solo from Sajama to the camp below the col. Needed two days because I walked the direct line from Sajama to the col and crossed a lot of old, dusty lava streams. Enough snow for cooking close to the camp on the Pomerape side of the valley. In 7 hrs from camp to summit in a clear, sunny and warm day ( -2°C). The surprising appearance of the huge summit crater was one of the most exciting moments in my mountaineering life. Had a great view up to the Cordillera Real ~200km away. No one else at the mountain at this time. | |
| Posted Oct 24, 2005 12:37 pm | ||
| Josh | Route Climbed: Northeast Gully Date Climbed: Sept 21 2005 | |
| Lots of snow made this one a real marathon. I often fell to my knees and a few times to my waist in the deep powder. I wish I had my board and I could have ripped a nice 1200m line down!!! Technically very easy, but I recommend sticking to the rock rib, it will be a lot faster, and the only choice when there isn't much snow. It also appeared that an approach from Chile and Lago Chungara would be much shorter and the routes similar, just a a longer but easy traverse along the crater to the summit. | |
| Posted Sep 24, 2005 6:18 pm | ||
| gnome | Route Climbed: Chilean side Date Climbed: August 2004 | |
| Went there with PO and Eric, also from France. We took a guide at Putre (the owner of agency Aymaruta in Putre) and went at a BC at approx. 5000m. to spend the night. Next morning, we began to climb at 4 O'clock. We had 2 hours of climb on big rocks, sometimes a bit steep, before arriving at snow (at around 5700m). The snow was very icy and with little grietas everywhere. As the slope was becoming quite steep for these snow conditions, I told the guide that we should use a rope... He went a bit embarassed to tell us that he had forgot the rope at BC... I decided to go back. I am returning there in October 2005 on the bolivian side. My message is clear : unless they changed radicaly, don't attempt Parinacota with this company (Aymaruta) ! They were expensive, they provided poor equipment, they had very poor skills in mountainering and no experience of guiding people. | |
| Posted Aug 24, 2005 3:20 am | ||
| althegreek | Route Climbed: from the west(no route name) Date Climbed: may 29 2005 | |
| we decided to climb from the west side of the mountain. its a perfect cone so you can basically ascend from where ever you want. our route went up a steep gully full of penitentes. i don´t recommend this route due to the bad snow conditions and a super long approach. go from the south or from bolivia. | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2005 4:19 pm | ||
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