Ojos del Salado 19 Days

We’ll meet you at the airport and take you to your hotel or our office where you’ll have a talk with our guide in order to crystal clear any doubt clouding your mind and to check your equipment is proper and fitted for the purposes.

• Max altitude: 390 m
• Lodging: Hotel
• Meals: No
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme:Reception at the airport, head to the hotel, equipment checking, itinerary checking, and then you’re all free to do as you see fitted.

• Max altitude: 2500 masl
• Lodging: Refuge
• Meals: box-lunch, diner
• Transport: 4WD or Mini Van
• Scheme: Trekking El Morado National Park, acclimatization.

We set out towards Piedra Numerada to set up our first camp. This place is perfect to start our expedition because it has the ideal altitude for starting the acclimatization process.

• Max altitude: 3100 masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Box-lunch, diner
• Transport: 4WD or mini-van
• Scheme: Trekking approach and acclimatization, camp set-up, cooking.

On this day we’ll set up the second camp around the 3,900 meters in order to keep on with our acclimatization process, which is crucial to our objective.

• Max altitude: 3900 masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Trekking approach, camp set-up, cooking, acclimatization.

We’ll do a light climb to keep with our acclimatization process in order to get our bodies  accustomed to this high altitude desert environment.

• Max altitude: 4,954 masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Acclimatization climb, cooking,

Leaving our camp very early in the morning, we’ll take the normal route up El Plomo, following the south-west ridge. We’ll cross an icefield to reach the summit ridge. From the summit we’ll have outstanding views of the highest peaks in the central Andes. We’ll return to base camp for the night.

• Max altitude: 5,430 masl
• Lodging: Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Cooking, climb El Plomo.

After disassembling our tents and packing up our equipment, we’ll go across the Cancha Carreras area in order to perform an altitude trekking and finish with the ascensions of Pintor and La Parva hills (4100masl). Finally, we will head towards our transportation, which will be waiting for us, and thus return to Santiago.

• Max altitude: 4180 masl
• Lodging: Hostel
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch.
• Transport: 4WD or Mini Van
• Scheme: High altitud trekking ,climb Mt Pintor and La Parva , cooking.

Flight from Santiago to Copiapo in the morning, after arrived into Copiapo we will drive to Laguna Verde and set up the base camp around the 4300 meters in order to keep on with our acclimatization process, which is crucial to our objective.

• Max altitude: 4300 m
• Lodging: Refuge or mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: transfer airport, Camp take-down and up, cooking, acclimatization.

On this day we will perform our first ascent in the desert in the Mulas Muertas mountain. remaining day and get ready for the days to come.

• Max altitude: 5600 m
• Lodging: Refuge or mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: no
• Scheme: Cooking, acclimatization climb Mulas Muertas.

On this day we’ll put our bodies to the test. We’ll see how your body is enduring the lack of oxygen in this area. We’ll go up a bit higher than 5,600 meters and then go back to sleep at the Laguna Verde

• Max altitude: 6070m
• Lodging: Refuge or mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: climb a 6000, cooking and acclimatization.

This day is for rest and recovers energies in the hotspring area

• Max altitude:4300m
• Lodging:Refuge or mountain tent
• Meals:Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport:
• Scheme: cooking and acclimatization.

This is the last day we’ll be able to use the 4WD vehicle. We’ll transport the equipment to Refuge Atacama and from there we’ll have to work harder. Each one of us has to carry his/her personal equipment plus a piece of the common equipment towards Refuge Tejos in order to prepare our last camp (high camp) and it clearly helps with the acclimatization process. Once we get to the shelter we’ll get some rest, leave our equipment there and head back to Refuge Atacama to sleep.

• Max altitude:5837 m
• Lodging:Refuge or mountain tent
• Meals:Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: Carry the equipment, cooking, acclimatization trekking

We’ll carry the remaining equipment towards Refugio Tejos. This time we’ll spend the night there. Since we’ve already carried most of the equipment the day before, we’ll be saving a lot of necessary energy for our next day, which is without doubt the most important day of our expedition.

• Max altitude: 5837 m / 19150 ft
• Lodging: Refuge or mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Carry the equipment, cooking, acclimatization.

We’ll set out early morning to reach the Ojos del Salado summit (6,893masl). On this day we’ll see how all of our hard work flourishes. All the previous acclimatization process is to endure this SO challenging summit. No doubts about it, this is the hardest day in our expedition. We’ll be ascending 1,000 meters, crossing a glacier, rock climbing, reaching the summit, descending, and carrying the equipment back to Refugio Atacama all in the same day.

• Max altitude: 6893 m
• Lodging: Refuge or mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: No
• Scheme: climb ojos, cooking and equipment checking.

This is the last day we’ll spend in the Parque Nevado de Tres Cruces area. Calmly we’ll take-down our camp and head back to Copiapó, leaving behind us this giant, the highest summit in Chile and the tallest volcano in the world. We will finish our expedition in a beautiful beach of Bahia Inglesa.

• Max altitude: 5300 m
• Lodging: Hotel
• Meals: Breakfast hotel, box-lunch
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: Transport the equipment (4WD), cooking, equipment checking.

The whole group will drive to the airport for flight to Santiago.

• Max altitude: 390 m
• Lodging: No
• Meals: Breakfast
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: Airport transfer (optional)

Full day excursion to the coastal city of Valparaiso, which has been recognized by UNESCO as a  world heritage.

• Max altitude: 500 m
• Lodging: Hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, lunch
• Transport: minivan
• Scheme: transfer

The whole group will lead to the airport. (out)

• Max altitude: 500 m
• Lodging: NO
• Meals: Breakfast
• Transport: minivan
• Scheme: transfer airport (optional)