Itinerary

Day 1: Machachi (10,170ft/3.100m) – Vaqueria Inguisay (11,646ft/3.550m) – Campo Italiano (15,092ft/4.600m)

We start from Machachi (10,170ft/3.100m) very early in the morning, we will get  breakfast on the way, we will be driving for about 4,5 hours until the trailhead at (11,646ft/3.550m), in Vaqueria Inguisay or known also as Boca Toma, where the horses and porters will be ready to load our climbing expedition gear and goods for the next 4 days up to the high camp,  it will take us 5 to 7 hours to get to the High Camp knows as  “Campo Italiano”  at (15,092ft/4.600m), where we will set up our tents and accommodate our climb  gear inside the tents, depending on the season, it will be on the snow or on the sandy place, we will have some time to rest until the dinner time. Overnight and dinner in the tents (-/-/D)

Day 2: Campo Italiano – El Altar Summit (17,454ft/5.320m) – Campo Italiano

We will wake up around midnight, get some light breakfast, and put all the gear on in order to start hiking towards the summit. The first section is going to be flat, we might need to negotiate some crevasses, and soon we will be climbing some  ice runnels of 50° to 70°  2 to 3 pitches and we will find some platforms, and again some ice runnels, 2 to 3 pitches and the very last  section we will be climbing on a very interesting  almost vertical mixed wall, once on the summit, we will have our time to look around, do some photos, and have something to eat and prepare our rappels off for descending the mountain. It will take 10 to 12 hours the whole climb. We will get our hike camp and stay overnight here (B/-/D)

Day 3: Campo Italiano (15,092ft/4.600m) – Vaqueria Inguisay – Machachi

We will get a relaxing morning, have breakfast and start packing all the things in order to walk down for about 4 hours to the Village of Vaqueria Inguisay, where the transportation will be ready to transfer us for another 4,5 hours to Machachi (B/-/-/)