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Aymara Expeditions®
SCHEDULED EXPEDITION TO MOUNT ACONCAGUA
6962 m - Normal Way ( North – West Side)®

Following the clear objective of safety our team of professionals in mountain have developed a complete program to reach the highest peak in America.

You have the chance to have a place in our expeditions. A place next to professionals that are already working to help you get in the summit with security and the best chances for acclimatization.

Expedition program.

Day		Itinerary (Height in meters)
01		Mendoza (760m) Transfer to the Hotel. Lodging.
02		Mendoza / Puente del Inca (2725m). Procure of permits. Welcome lunch. Transfer to Puente Del Inca. Lodging in hhostal. Dinner.
03		Puente del inca / Confluencia (3300m). Transfer to the entrance of the Park. Trek to Confluencia. Dinner.
04		Confluencia / Plaza Francia (4000m) / Confluencia. Trek to Plaza Francia and comeback to Confluencia. Dinner.
05		Confluencia / Plaza de Mulas (4260m). Trek to Plaza de Mulas Base Camp. Lodging in the shelter. Dinner.
06		Plaza de Mulas (4260m). Resting day. Little trek to the glacier.
07		Plaza de Mulas / Camp 1 (Canadá) (4910m) / Plaza de Mulas. Transport to Camp 1 and comeback to Base Camp.
08		Plaza de Mulas (4260m). Resting And acclimatization day.
09		Plaza de mulas / Camp 1. Climb to Camp 1. Dinner.
10		Camp 1 / Camp 2 Nido de Cóndores (5250m). Climb to Camp 2.
11		Camp 2 (5250m). Resting and acclimatization day.
12		Camp 2 / Camp 3 Berlin (5900m). Climb to Camp 3.
13		Camp 3 / Summit (6962m) / Camp 3. Climb from Camp 3 to the summit and comeback to Camp 3.
14		Extra day for contingencies that prevent the normal development of the program.
15		Extra day for contingencies that prevent the normal development of the program.
16		Camp 3 / Plaza de Mulas. Descent to Plaza de Mulas. Lodging. Dinner.
17		Plaza de Mulas / puente del inca. Descent to Puente del Inca. Lodging in hostel. Dinner.
18		Puente del Inca / Mendoza. Transfer to Mendoza. Lodging in hotel. Farewell dinner.
19		Transfer to the airport. Transfer from your hotel to the airport.

SERVICES INCLUDES IN THE PRIVATE EXPEDITIONS.

Transfer Airport / Hotel.
Don’t worry, we’ll be waiting for you at the airport to take you in our vehicle to your hotel, and you will be able to enjoy the travel even in the details. And off course we’ll bring you back to farewell who has certainly become a new friend.

Hotel in Mendoza.
For your staying in our city, we have chosen a three stars class hotel. In full center of our city, at just one and half block from the Tourism Direction, where we’ll buy the climbing permits, and at only 100 meters from the typical pedestrian stroll of the most beautiful city in the country.

Here we’ll stay two night, one in the arrival to Mendoza and another when we return from the mountain.
The rooms are double with breakfast and taxes included.
If you wish a single room, don’t forget to warn us.

Of course, we also expect that you come visit our commercial office at only a couple of blocks from your hotel, to give us the chance to wish you success in the adventure that we are starting together.

Assistance to buy the climbing ticket.
The Aconcagua mount is inside a National Park, managed by the Provincial Government of Mendoza.

To get in the Park we should obtain a permit, in accordance to the activity to develop. The Government stablish that the tramit must be realized only in a personal way (see detail of values in "Useful information in our web site").

Therefore we’ll scort you to the office, to help you in the filling of the application for admission.

Welcome lunch and farewell dinner.
It’s always a pleasure for the host to give a good welcome.
And in the end, we won’t stop celebrating the link nature will certainly create.

Transfer from Mendoza to Puente del Inca.
Relax, we’ll pick you up from your hotel to take you to Puente Del Inca.
I our own vehicles for the transportation of passengers, we’ll go over the 180 kilometers that separates Mendoza city from Puente Del Inca. In that way we are going to witness one of the most spectacular landscapes in the central Andes.

In the return, we’ll leave you back in the hotel ate in Mendoza city.

Assistance for the arrangement of loads to be transport by mules.
And when you ask what, how and where to take your things, our guides will be there advising you for a better comfort.

Lodging in Puente Del Inca.
In times of the Inca Empire its name was an strategic point for the crossing of the Andes.
In the last 80 years it has become the departure point of every expedition in search for the summit.

Here it’s been built the hostel of Puente Del Inca, the only tourists lodging in this important zone, and at just two kilometers to the entrance of the Aconcagua Park.
Today we feel proud to be the responsible enterprise for its working, offering the best services to the expeditions from all around the world.
Here we’ll spend two night (one in out and one in back) in rooms for three to six persons (according to the final number of members in the group) and with private toilet.
We have not forgotten to include a complete breakfast and unforgettable dinners in the hostel’s restaurant.

Transfer to the entrance of the Aconcagua park.
From our hostel in Puente Del Inca we must go over 5 kilometers by the international road until the first range station, where our permits are going to be checked and we’ll get a talk about the working of the park.
To that place we go in the Arrieros pick up, saving us from a long walk.

Load mules.
This strong animal was the main mean of transport for the armies that fought for the freedom of South America. The mules move with great caution in mountain ground, and there hard contexture allow them to carry equipment without any problem.

Aymará Expeditions® counts with more than 100 mules for the transport of loads and people.

The negative side of this animals is there untamed character. That’s why we have a big team of persons who have dedicated their lives to the country of animals, The Arrieros. They understand and handle, for family tradition, the work with these animals.

From Puente Del Inca to Confluencia and from here to Plaza de Mulas, our loads will be transported by mules. Each mule can carry a top of 60kg, and every passenger has the right to transport a maximum of 30kg in each part of the way.

We recommend to bring a duffle bag to cover your luggage in the animals.

Camp in Confluencia.
The trekking to our Base Camp acts like a transition area. During the approach to the height, the body needs a certain time to light up the biological mechanisms that helps to acclimatize.

Therefor we find of vital importance to stop two night in an intermediate height, to give our body the activity and the time to begin the acclimatization process.

During that time we will Camp in our own campament, which has the comfort to spend a good time, and equipped with wide dinner tents, electrical light, table and banks, full dinner set and the kindness of our people.

Trekking to Plaza Francia.
On day 4 in our program we’ll go to the base of the mythical South Face of the Aconcagua. This is the most vertical face of the mountain, and with almost 3000 meters of unlevel to dazzle us with a show of glaciers walls.
During that trekking we will reach 4000 meters. That will give to our body a unmistakable sign to light the acclimatization process.

All the meals.
From day 2 in our expedition to the return to Mendoza all the meals are included.
We make reference to a breakfast, lunch or a box lunch, if it’s a day of activity, and dinner.
From day 3 in the program where we get in the mountain, the meals are with a fixed menu.
Every meal is always prepared for our cooks, except for the high altitude camps and the two days of the approach to the base camp, where our guides will be in charge to prepare the meals that we are carefully planed.

The shelter of Plaza de Mulas.
It’s an important construction of metal and wood that provides the service of a mountain shelter, hosting expeditions from all around the world, and serving good meals in the restaurant.

We will spend five night in the shelter, using type "C" rooms: a great room to share among the group, with beds, mattresses, blankets and pillows.
The toilets are public and open to every person lodged in the shelter.
This service includes the possibility to take one hot shower during the stay in the shelter, and if you wish some more you can pay for them in the same place.
Remember that the meals will be served in the shelter’s restaurant.

Trekking to the Horcones glacier.
Acclimatization is a dynamic process, in which our body needs a minimal activity to increase the response.
We think that in the resting day in the base camp, a short trek in the area of Plaza de Mulas is useful. In that ride we will have an introduction class about haw to use the crampons and other things to consider in moves on the altitude.

Communications.
We count with fix points in all the mountain. A link that we use to stay connected by VHF and BLU radio between the high camps, Plaza Argentina, Plaza de Mulas, Confluencia, Puente Del Inca and Mendoza. Therefor we can response to any contingency in an almost instantaneously way.

Luggage care.
If during the travel you wish to leave things that you think you won’t need in the days to come, you can leave them in our office in Mendoza, our hostel in Puente Del Inca, or the Base Camp shelter in Plaza de Mulas.

Portage to the altitude camps.
The Aconcagua has slowly taken importance of a figure born in the Himalayas, "the porter". Generally they are very strong people, and most of them have climb to the top in many opportunities, and there answer to the altitude is much better than in a regular athlete.

In Aymará expeditions we believe that their work to transport the material in common for the expedition, that includes: tents, kitchen sets, altitude food, fuel, stoves, ropes and the garbage produced for the group, helps the members to move with less weight between the camps, to keep the focusing of energies infor the summit day.

Therefor our expeditions includes every 3 or 4 persons a porter, with the capability to carry 20 kilos in each trip.
The porters will help us in the following material movements: from camp1 to Camp 2, and from camp 3 to Plaza de Mulas.
In day 7 of the program we will transport the equipment to Camp 1 among all of the members of the expeditions from Plaza de Mulas.

During day 12, the resting day in camp Nido de Cóndores, one of our guide will transport the needed equipment for the remaining days to camp 3.
The personal gear must be transported by yourself, but if you wish to hire a porter, don’t forget to consult us.

Tents.
Aconcagua usually has good summer weather. But if we meet his storm days, in that moment we will know that the power of nature in that heights is incommensurable, That is why we provide our expeditions with the best high quality tents for the altitude camps. We use brands that have prove an excellent performance through the years, such as Marmot and The North Face.
The accommodation in the high altitude tents is for two people, but in case of need and according to the guide’s judgement, they will be able to fit a top of three people.

Extra days.
Our expedition counts with two extra days in case of contingencies that prevent the normal development of the program in the altitude camps.
Aymará takes responsibility for developing the program as it has been described.
However, situations of mayor strength out of our good will, may occur, leaving the right to modificate the program in the judgement of our guides, if the circumstances and the safety of the group requires it, without any right of indemnification for the passenger.

Our guides.
Our mountain guides are professionals with titles of a AAGM and the EPGAMT.
The expeditions counts with the leaderships of one high mountain guide and one assistant every 3 or 4 passengers.
Besides the normal gear, the guides transport in their equipment: VHF radio, a complete first aid kit with specific medicines for the high altitude sickness, rope, altimeter, digital oximeter and professional equipment and clothing.

Not included services.

The permit to get into the Park.
Extras and beverages in Mendoza, Puente Del Inca, and the shelter of Plaza de Mulas, besides the ones provided in the meals.
Meals and foods besides the ones in the program.
Expenses for the slovenliness of the itinerary in the program.
Sleeping bag and personal equipment.
Personal Insurance.
Porters for personal equipment.

Option E.A.P. (Extra Acclimatization Program).
Starting in the expedition program, you have the possibility to get a few days earlier to the base camp of Plaza de Mulas, gaining the chance to have a much better acclimatization. It basically means to leave two days early.

Itinerary (Height in meters).

Day 1: Mendoza
Transfer to the Hotel. Lodging.
Day 2: Mendoza / Puente del Inca
Procure of permits. Welcome lunch. Transfer to Puente Del Inca. Lodging in
hostal. Dinner.
Day 3: Puente del inca / Confluencia
Transfer to the entrance of the Park. Trek to Confluencia. Dinner.
Day 4: Confluencia / Plaza Francia / Confluencia
Trek to Plaza Francia and comeback to Confluencia. Dinner.
Day 5: Confluencia / Plaza de Mulas
Trek to Plaza de Mulas Base Camp. Lodging in the shelter. Dinner.
Day 6: Plaza de Mulas
Resting day. Little trek to the glacier.
Day 7: Training climb
In this day we gather with the rest of the expedition program group.

Includes services in the E.A.P.
The E.A.P. option includes (besides what’s exposed above)
Two extra nights in the shelter of Plaza de Mulas and one guided climb to a peak over 5000 meters near Plaza de Mulas.

List of minimum equipment needed.

Feet.
2 pairs of synthetical inner socks.
5 pairs of thick socks for cold (sky type)
1 pair of comfortable trekking boots.
1 pair of gaiters.

Legs.
1 fine synthetical pant.
1 thick shelter pant.
1 rainproof pant.
1 long and comfortable long pant (trekking type).

Trunk.
2 synthetical underwear shirts.
1 turtleneck of synthetical material.
1 fleece jacket of alike.
1 shelter jacket (down or synthetical).

Head.
Sun cap or hat.
Shelter hat (wool or fleece).
Light balaclava.
A good pair of sunglasses with UV filter and nose and side protection.
A pair of sky goggles.
A handkerchief for the neck.

Hands.
2 pair of light inner gloves.
2 pairs of rainproof gloves for shelter (mitten type).
Expedition material.
Book, walkman or anything that helps to be distracted in the tent.
1 Sunscreen (never less than factor 20).
Water bottle for one litter.
Sleeping mattress for high mountain.
Personal care elements.
Front lamp with extra batteries.
An stainless steel thermo of one litter or half a litter.

Technical equipment.
1 comfortable backpack of 70 liters or more.
1 pair of plastic boots.
1 pair of walking crampons.
1 climbing harness with regulable legs.
1 pair of telescopic pools.

Days of departure.

DEPARTURE OPTION EAP (Day 1)	DEPARTURE EXPEDITION (Day 1)
December 5, 2001	December 7, 2001
December 17, 2001	December 19, 2001
January 6, 2002	January 8, 2002
January 16, 2002	January 18, 2002
January 30, 2002	February 1, 2002

Note.
Anyone who wish to participate in the climbs with their own groups, or cannot incorporate to the open expeditions, Aymará Expeditions will offer to them private climbs.

The itinerary to develop is the same that in the open expeditions, but with changes in the services that we include.
In this option you can define the beginning date.

Reserves.
To confirm the reservation, Aymará Expeditions ask a 30 percent of the total value. That import can be paid in these ways:

Argentineans (bank transfer)
Foreigners (Western Union)
By credit card in both cases.

Once we confirm the founds we will send a written confirmation. The remain can be paid after the arrival to Mendoza.

Cancelations and voids.
In case of a reservation void after the deposit, Aymará Expeditions will keep a credit for two years. When that period of time gets concluded, the value of the credit will be over.

Aymara Expeditions®
9 de Julio 1023 ZC5500 Mendoza - Argentina
Phone/Fax ++54 261 4205304 / 4202064 / 4230433
http://www.aymara.com.ar/ingles/ascencio.htm
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