MOUNTAINEERING COURSES & SEMINARS

1st Level:
Bolivia , Mountaineering Introduction

Our 1st level program is based in Bolivia, the perfect country in which to learn mountain climbing techniques and to discover how we adapt to higher altitudes. In the Bolivian Cordillera we will find perfect granite rock and ice and have the chance to climb a number of different summits…the best prize for an alpine mountaineer.

Illimani

We will go to two rarely visited mountain ranges the Cordillera de Quimza Cruz for alpine rock climbing and Cordillera de Apolobamba for the ice, snow and mixed terrain. Both Cordilleras receive less than 3 or 4 groups per year and they are big enough to say that few people repeat the same summits. We go early in the season, May-June, to find the best snow and ice conditions.


Day 1: Arrival to La Paz. Meeting in the Hotel.
Day 2: Day to acclimatize and to start buying the food, booking the mules, land transportation, etc. Hotel accommodation.
Day 3: Transport to Pelechuco. 13h. Hotel accommodation.
Day 4: We will hire the mules and trekking to the first Camp.
Day 5: Trekking to the Camp2.
Day 6-7: Ice climbing and snow progression practice. We will teach you how to move one party in the glaciers. Which are the security rules to move in this kind of terrain.
Day 8: Practice or rest day.
Day 9: Summit day. In this climbing journey we will resolve the last doubts.
Day 10: trekking back to Pelechuco. Hotel accommodation.
Day 11: Drive back to La Paz. Hotel accommodation.
Day 12: Rest Day in La Paz.
Day 13: we buy food and we book the next logistics. We will make one rock climbing practice in La Paz to see the level of everyone.
Day 14: Transportation to Viloco, Quimza Cruz. 10h driving.
Day 15: We hire the mules and we head to the Camp1.
Day 16: Move to Camp2. Some rock climbing practice in the evening.
Day 17-18: Rock climbing practice. Traditional free climbing and the basics of aid climbing. Some useful techniques about the vertical movement and the safely progression in this terrain.
Day 19: A long multi-pitch climbing route by parties. Always you will have one instructor supervising each party.
Day 20: An other climbing day.
Day 21: Trekking down to Viloco. Night in Viloco.
Day 22: Transportation to La Paz.
Day 23: Rest Day and Goodbye.
Day 24: Flight back at home.

Ratio Instructor: Participant 1:2 - Level: all skill level.

 

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