A long hike around the tallest mountain in southern Peru, the broad and majestic Ausangate (6384m), offers glimpses at high altitude wildlife and pastoral peoples living, with their animals, quietly apart from the turmoil's of the modern world. We pass ice walls, a glacier, the cascades of a frozen river, and numerous springs of hot and medicinal underground water.
The mountaineer will also find lovely views over the surrounding countryside, looking down into fertile valleys and across at the Vilcanota, mountains. This is a snow covered range far away to the east, southeast then the south, protecting the valley of Canchis from these high mountains, cold waters whisper through totora swamps south of the Lake Titicaca.
Eager rapids plunge north into the tropical Inambari. And from the glacier-fed lakes of the Canchis valley, rich green waters feed the Vilcanota river and Cusco´s Sacred Valley. We may observe rare Andean wildlife in the high wilderness, such as vicuña, vizcacha, condors, flamingoes, Andean geese, and ibis.
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we bus 100 km East by Southeast from Cusco in the morning. The road passes north of Ausangate, and we leave the road a bit west of the mountain. We camp in Tinki at 3,800. As we fall asleep the setting sun lights up the glacier on the NW face of Ausangate.
We break camp and hike up to the Ausangate glacier. We set up camp alongside the Upis thermal springs, about 4 kilometres in the air. We bathe in the hot springs and the cold Upismayo which runs beside our camp.
We break camp and hike up to a pass at 4,500 which separates Ausangate proper to the East from a spur named Quellacocha to the West. In the afternoon we pass Lake Pucacocha, WSW of the summit and nestled among various minor peaks. The setting sun plays in cascades of collared ice where we finally make camp.
we continue walking among high-altitude lakes in the valley immediately south of Ausangate, which are unnaturally green-blue. We rise to cross Palomani pass at 4,800 masl. This is the highest point on the journey. We don't pass between the massif and some spur, but rather rise to take advantage of a gentler slope high on the mountain’s side.
Here we can see east over the large hand-shaped Lake Sivinacocha to the jagged, snow capped Vilcanota Mountains which crude this valley. We descend from the cold to camp at Chilcapinaya.
We descend into the sunny Jampa valley inhabited by shepherds and their flocks of alpaca and sheep. We lunch in the valley bottom, pass Lake Ticllacocha, and then climb over a pass at 4,650 masl. Camp is at small Lake Q´omercocha if we make it or at Pachaspata if dusk catches us here.
We drop into the valley and village of Pacchanta and bathe in their hot springs all the long afternoon.
We pass through increasingly inhabited valleys among the headwaters of the Paucartambo River on the north side of the mountain until the sun sets. We return to the road and our bus. We get back to Cusco for happy hour and a night at the discos, or a long rest, as your mood takes you.
· Private Service Professional English/Spanish speaking guide.
· Private Bus in-out to the beginning of the trail (Cusco-Tinki, Tinki-Cusco).
· Transfers Round-trip.
3 Doubles occupancy tents.
· Camping Equipment: Bathroom tent, kitchen tent, dinning tent, stools, tables and comfortable mattress.
· Cook / Muleteer.
· Horses and Mules to carry our equipment.
· Coffee breaks in the afternoons.
· Meals during the trek.
· First Aid kit / Oxygen.
· Sleeping bag
· First breakfast
· Last lunch
· Tips for the guide, porters or cooks
· Personal sleeping bag.
· Backpack and Daypack.
· Hiking shoes or snow boots.
· Winter coat and poncho.
· Water bottle, flash light, hat, sun block, sunglasses.
· Warm/Thermal clothing.
· Chocolates, candies or other snacks.
· Photo Camera + batteries.
· Top quality 3* hotel
· Daily departures
