More than one mountain in Cordillera Blanca since from the same base camp you can summit various mountains. Ishinca is a moderately easy mountain with an easy moraine as well. The view is beautiful and there are two options for the route so ascent and descent can be done via different routes. After summiting Ishinca you can go for maybe the easiest six thousand of this tropical mountain range – Tocllaraju.
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DAY 01: HUARAZ – PASHPA – BASE CAMP ISHINCA
Transfer to the trail head Pashpa (3670m) in private bus, where we will meet the donkey drivers, then we will hiking up along the Ishinca Valley, where there is the National Parks control, then after to check in we will have lunch, then we will continue walking arriving to the base camp of Ishinca about 5 hours approximately. Then we will check our climbing equipment for the next day, overnight Camping at (4300m).
DAY 02: BASE CAMP – SUMMIT ISHINCA – BASE CAMP
We will wake up very early and have breakfast around 03:00hours, after that we will start hiking at 03:30hours to the glacier, arriving to the glacier after 2 hours and half hike, then we will put and use our climbing gears and start climb up to the summit for about 3 hours, getting the summit over (5550m) we will enjoy the nice view for some minutes to take pictures around the valley, there we will see the amazing mountains and nice lakes, then we will start to descend for about 2 hours to the Moraine camp and continue to the Base Camp, arriving around 16:30hours, overnight camping in the Base Camp at (4300m).
DAY 03: BASE CAMP – PASHPA – HUARAZ
This day we will back to Huaraz after the breakfast around 08:00hours, downhill to Pashpa, before you will register in the Huascaran National Park your return, it will takes 3 hours half to Pashpa where our private transfer will be waiting to transport to Huaraz and then transfer to your hotel, lunch on the way, arriving to Huaraz around 14:00hours.
