COTOPAXI RELAMPAGO ASCENT

From 1,890.00USD

Climb the highest active volcano in Ecuador!

Trip Type

CS Express Climbs™, Public
Activities

Mountaineering
Group Size

4 Pax
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Trip Duration

5 Day(s) 4 Night(s)

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Trip code WT-CODE 113

Descripción del viaje

Este programa es ideal para escaladores y viajeros que no disponen de mucho tiempo en sus vacaciones, estas experiencias son aptas para todos los niveles de experiencia: desde principiantes y entusiastas aficionados hasta profesionales. El recorrido está organizado en solo cinco días cortos, volarás desde casa y estarás en una gran altitud muy rápido y seguro en la montaña.

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Itineraries

Day 1

Arrival Quito

Pick up at the airport and transfer to your hotel in Quito. If you arrive early in the morning, you will have the afternoon free to explore Quito.

Included meals:
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 2

Skills Practice on Cotopaxi’s Glacier 16.404ft/5000 m

We will leave Quito early in the morning around 8:30 a.m. and we will drive south along the Avenue of the Volcanoes until we reach the town of El Chaupi. This town is the location of Cotopaxi-Summit’s home base, there we will prepare all the necessary equipment for the skills practice on Cotopaxi´s Glacier. From here will drive east to the Cotopaxi parking lot (4.500m/14,763 ft) then we’ll hike up for around an hour to the Jose Ribas Refuge, after a short break we will continue to the glacier for learning and reviewing basic glacier travel skills, ice axe and crampon technique, and self-arrest. After spending the day on the ice, we return to the comfort of our lodge and discuss our plan for summit day.

Included meals: Breakfast/ Box Lunch/ Dinner
Accommodation: TamboPaxi Lodge

Day 3

Tambopaxi Lodge – Rest Day 12,204 ft./3720m

Today we will enjoy a day of rest at the base of Cotopaxi enjoying a beautiful views and comfortable mountain lodge. In the afternoon also prepare all of our equipment for the climb.

Included meals: Breakfast/ Box Lunch/ Dinner
Accommodation: Tambopaxi Lodge

Day 4

: Summit Cotopaxi 19,347 ft /5897 m

Midnight will be our wake-up time, not before having a light breakfast and get our stuff ready for the ascent. Then we will drive until to the parking lot. From there we start the ascent, the climb will take us about 6 to 8 hours. Finally at the summit we’ll take our time to take pictures of the crater and surroundings, and then we’ll head down back the refuge, which it will take us 2 to 3 hours. and then continue our descent all the way to our lodge where our transportation will be ready to take us to Quito.

Included meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 5

Flight Home

Transfer from the hotel to the airport

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Acclimatization Climbing Program
Ecuadorian qualified and experienced local Mountain Guide (ASEGUIM/UIAGM) ratio 2 climbers -1 guide)
A registered and fully licensed Tour Operator
Technical mountain equipment (crampons, ice axe, harness, helmet)
Land transportation and transfers

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