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Apu Ausangate Mountain ice Climbing.

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Finally at June a dream come true, when a team of mountain guides and local mountaineers organized a 6 days mountaineering expedition to reach the Apu Ausangate summit at 6384m / 20944 ft. located 100 km south east  from Cusco. as the six people team were already acclimatized over 3500 meters, we decided to take the fastest access. 

First day expedition, We traveled by trucks about 5 hours to Hatun Chilca village. south cusco from there we walked 3 hours north to Andean lodge at Machurajay, we arrived at sunset and spent night there.
The second day we walked 5 hours north-east crossing the steep moraine to set the base camp 1 at 5200 m and prepare ourselves for the next day.
The The third day we tried to  reach Apu Ausangate summit by east face. we left camp 1 at dawn at 3 am, after 2 hours of climb a medium slope ice terrain, we found a 200 m vertical rock and ice wall called "the shield",  an 85 degrees technical slope full of mix parts and loose rock, 2 and a half hours later once on the upper part of the wall is set usually the camp 2, but we decided to continue through a quite long 3 km average snow slope until a big crevasse 120 m before summit, after cross it we continue by 75 degree slope until top of snow peak.
Reaching the summit.

June 12 2011 midday an amazing view wait for us, one remarkably moment into the mountaineers life, the summit of  the highest snow peak on Cusco, the fifth in Peru. We reach the Apu Ausangate summit 6384m / 20944 ft, after 8 hours of hard ice climbing and perfect weather. finally it took 5 hours to climb down to return base camp1. 
Day fourth we return to Andean Lodge at Machurajay for celebration, the fifth day we rested in the lodge and the sixth day we returned to Cusco .
Of course this is not a mountain for begginers, it is recommended have experience traversing glaciers, mix climbs on technical ice walls and an excelent phisical condition.


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Nada - nada Lead and Classic climbing.

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If you are going to the next level on climbing, Nada nada is the perfect place to practice different styles of climbing as lead climbing, classical climbing, and top roping.
located in a remote place, 25 minutes walk south of the village of Huayllarcocha, crossing countryside and eucalyptus forest, this route lies in the valley of Sebollahuayco knew by common consensus of climbers as "Nada-nada". This is a north facing limestone plaque with an approximate height of 14 meters / 45 feet,  you have many options to climb.
The lead climbing route offers  average difficulty with a 6b – 6b+ graduation  and protected with 4 bolts, this is the left side route, with the difficult step  between second and third bolt. Usually the run out is for left edge.
The classic route on the same plaque, right side large crag, has a difficulty of 6a and can be convine  with the first vobt of left side route and can protected it with 2 or 3 big nuts in the crack af right side, before the final run out
The top rope route can be fixed in up in middle of routes so you can climb both
1. Nada nada 6b - 6b+ , 2 clasica 6a - 6a+.

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Canyoning Perolniyoc 100.m/328.f

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A 100.m/328.f vertical canyonig a real extreme experience if you like adrenaline, One of geographical features of Cusco region are canyons, as Perolniyoc eroded by natural water courses melted from snowpeaks, made this place rarely explored, remote and rugged settings of difficult approximation tucked in the surrounding of Ollantaytambo village, becoming the perfect area for canyoning route, this activity often requires wilderness travel skills the descent assisted by ropes trough waterfalls associated with technical descents those that require rappels (abseils) and ropework, technical down-climb, technical jumps, and/or technical swims, remarking the plenty levels of difficult, heights and waterfall groups.
How to reach:
take a transportation to urbamba continue to pachar bridge 12 km of urubamaba once there cross the brigde and continue around 5 km until soqma village there you need to cross a litle bridge and climb 10 min to soqma comunity there the only way to continue is walking 2 km more to perolniyoc waterfalls.
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Canyoning Paullo. Kloofing - River Trekking.

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Discover the most popular location for canyoning in Cusco, located in the Sacred Valley into rugged landscapes, this is a challenge which involves 1 hour walk up through a eucaliptus forest from a small village to the top of canyon, then prepare all equipment and descent by abseil or rappel all way down through the canyon. One of the crucial and mandatory skills required for most canyoning expeditions and tours is the ability to abseil. specially on rugged enviroments and wet conditions

This part of canyon start at 3350 m and ends at 2250 m. The canyon is cut into sandstone with moderate slopes and numerous drops, spectacular sculpted rock walls, cascades and waterfalls, this low volume canyon is recommended for beginners, it has many abseils including three spectacular waterfalls as long as 35/15/25 meters / 115/50/82 ft, and two small cascades of 5 meters / 16 ft, as a time where you have to lower yourself dealing with natural obstacles.

The best season to visit this place is dry season (from april to december)
. This is a canyon not to be missed!



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Bouldering and Rock Climbing Routes in the Surrounding of Cusco

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Rock climbing and bouldering are growing rapidly and is wide open to exploration and new routes, there are several local climbers willing to point out established areas. Among the most well know and frequented places are the north area, the best lime stone climb area, routes have varying levels of difficulty to challenge all type of climbers, although many climbers adhere to "minimal impact" and "leave no trace" practices. Popular areas for climb and boulder are also archeological and sacred places for locals. People would prefer that climbers not climb these sacred places and have made this information well known to climbers (see advises) .The potential threat to these cultural resources has led to restrictions and shut the next climbing routes:
The Evils Balcony, La Garganta, Nomos, La Escuela.
Many non-climbers object the appearance of chalk marks, bolts and slings on visible cliffs. Since these features are small, visual impacts can be mitigated through selection of neutral rock-matching colors for equipment. Today the shut of climb routes more often is because disagreement about the appropriateness of drilling and placing permanent bolts and other anchors.

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Canyoning Huchuy Qosco 320.m/1050.f

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Huchuy Qosco canyoning is a real adventure that involves the descent of a huge deep ravine and watercourse with flowing and splashing water that may be really wet, steep cliffs inside canyon require a certain level of climb skills. climb on wet surfaces, also require specialized technical equipment such as a ropes, belay device, wetsuit, dry bags, anchors, knotting, etc However, because of the humid environment inside the canyon, some rock surfaces can be very wet and some rocks can be very loose despite appearing solid.
Deal with such wet climbing conditions has a certain level of risk. the Huchuyqosco Canyoning can be extremely dangerous and the Escape out the sides of a canyon is often impossible, and completion of the descent is the only possibility. Due to the remoteness and inaccessibility of canyon, rescue can be impossible for several hours or several days. Every year a few number of tourists and inexperienced guides get injured or need rescue and hence explorers need to take great care and preferably be accompanied by experienced guides.

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Big Wall Pachar

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Located into the sacred valley of the Incas at 85 km north to Cusco, Pachar offers numerous "big wall" routes with a nice variety of crags at higher elevations, a huge granite wall, approximately 700m./2300f. height the perfect place for experienced rock climbers, with constant new routes setting by local climbers. actually there are 6 diferent routes, the higher reach 180 meters and the others betwen 50 and 60 meters, all equiped with bolts and several sport and clasic routes. single and multi-pitch climbs for everyone, experts will be able to find extremely difficult routes. One good advise try to visit this place for a weekend. you will love this place if you are a serious climber. 

  Updated routes

1. Negrita, 15 meters, sport route, 7 quickdraws, 6b/6b+
2. Dana,  30 meters, top rope, 6a
3. 30 meters, sport route, 7 quickdraws, V+
4. Clasica 1, 45 meters, clasic route, 5 bolts, V
5. Clasica 2, 45 meters, sport route, 15 quickdraws, V+
6. Diedro, 30 meters, sport route, 10 quickdraws, V

 How to reach:
take a bus from the bus station at grau Av. to urubamba, you can take a taxi to for a few soles more the ride is about 1h or 1h 30m depending of your transportation. once at urubamba bus station look for the mini buses or taxis to ollantaytambo take it and ask driver for pachar bridge then when you be there walk 300m following the route to ollantaytambo and at right side of road is the climb area next to a quarry.


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climb travel to peru

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The Cusco region is located in the southern part of Perú, into the heart of Andes Mountain range at South America. The area has three mountain ranges called Vilcanota Urubamba and Vilcabamba that cross the entire region, it means the perfect place for the practice of outdoor activities as mountaineering.
"Climbing in Cusco¨The Proyect born in 2005, with great interest and enthusiasm in adventure, to search for data and create a register with the best places for explore, the promotion and difution of mountain activities as rock and ice climbing, climb wall, bouldering, canyoning, rappell or abseil. with a constant register of maps locations of rock climbing cusco routes and around the area. we also organize excurtions , tours, expedition and travels, we invite you to participate and enjoy our new alternatives in tourism
Enjoy these amazing places thanks for your visit .


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