Dear
friends,
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Andes Mountain, was founded by Pedro Marzolo
in 1988 as a outdoor tour operator company that offers
services mainly in mountaineering expeditions trips,
trekking, ski touring along the Andean Volcanoes and
Patagonia. Our base is located in Santiago, Chile, where
the Andes mountain range surrounding us. We offer these
services in Chile as well as in Perú and
Argentina where Patagonian trekking, ski touring,
mountain biking and high mountaineering trips on the
Andes are our main goals.
We offer you a wide variety of excursions,
such as mountaineering (from medium to high altitude),
trekking, ski touring and mountainbike trips, and of
curse, in between trips we can organize for you city
tours and visit our famous vineyards in central valley
of Chile.
Our expeditions
are, in their majority, composed by small groups, give
to our clients best and exclusive service. We have
specialized guides to accompany you it these activities.
We suggest dates for some excursions, but also you can
arrange a schedule that fits you better in a private
expedition. Here, we emphasize mainly
the
travel
request of our
customers from
theorganization
for
a single
person
to groups
of 20 to
30 customers. Here all of our
standard programs
can be
tailored
according to
what our
customers
want to visit
and
level of
demand that
has
every trip.
Do not hesitate in consulting us about our
activities. |
Lonely Planet recomend
Andes Mountain Expediciones for your trip in Patagonia.
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Staff and Contact Information
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Pedro Marzolo (speak
Spanish, English and Italian)
Director
Cell: +
56-9-97997493
Fax: +56-2-2341092
Santiago,
Chile.
Mail: andes@andesmountain.cl |
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Claudia Sepúlveda
(English and Spanish)
Trip coordinator.
Movil: + 56-9-79985013
Santiago, Chile.
mail: claudia@andesmountain.cl |
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Jairo Meneses (Spanish, Portuguese,
Italian and English)
Salesman for Brasil.
Mountaineering guide
for Aconcagua, Atacama and Patagonia.
Mail: jairo@andesmountain.cl
Phone: + (5521) 24370825
Cell: + (5521)
88650825 |
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Gonzalo Vilches (Spanish and
english)
Mountain Guide and mountaineering instructor. Guide for
Ski randonnee, rock and
ice climbing.
Pucon. Chile.
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Julieta Fernandez (Spanish, French
and English)
Trekking
guide for our trips in Patagonia (Torres del Paine).
Puerto Natales, Chile.
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Fernando
Opazo Marcerano (Spanish and English)
Mountaineering
Guide
for Atacama Desert and Central Andes and Aconcagua
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Rodrigo Vera (Spanish and english)
Mountain Guide and mountaineering instructor. Guide for
Ski randonnee, rock and
ice climbing.
Pucon. Chile.
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Jose Rosen, "Vikingo" (Spanish,
Italian and english)
Mountain and Trekking guide at Araucania and volcanoes
area and Torres del Paine.
Pucon. Chile.
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Marco
Garrido (Spanish and english)
Mountain and Trekking guide at Araucania and volcanoes
area and Torres del Paine.
Puerto Varas. Chile. |
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Veronica Irribarra (Spanish and
Italian)
Patagonia
Office: C. Eberhard 161, Puerto Natales, Chile.
Mail: veronica@andesmountain.cl
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Rodney Gonzalez (Spanish and
English)
Mountaineering
Guide
for Atacama Desert, Central Andes alpine trips and
Aconcagua. |
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Felipe Goreux (Spanish and
English)
Mountain and
trekking Guide for Patagonian trips (Torres del Paine,
Patagonia Ice Cap trips and Lake District)
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Dario Aguilar
Patagonian
camps, equipment maitenance and porter.
Puerto Natales, Chile. |
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Patricio Mercado
Porter for
Patagonian trekkings and Ice cap traverse, logistic and
camps.
Puerto Natales. Chile.
July 1978 - February 2011
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Alejandro Guzman
Mountaineering
trips.
Logistic, cookman, porter and camps. |
Official
outdoor
clothing for our guides.
La Charcuteria (www.jamonserrano.cl),
Jamon exclusivo
producto que requiere un proceso de secado y maduración
de 9 meses, tiempo necesario para obtener aromas y sabores
inigualables e inconfundibles para un paladar refinado.
Tika (www.tikachips.cl)
We use in our trips
exclusive snack. Nothing will ever be the same after you try
our Gourmet Line of Native Veggie Chips. Usingunique tubers of
our southern land of Chile and selecting the best and
more innovative vegetables, we created a colourful union
of chips made to sing with a pinch of low sodium salt.
Do
you know the real Mazapan?, Have you had the
privilege of testing a MAZAPANCHITO? ... If you've tried, and are one of the friends MAZAPANCHITO.
If NO!: Hurry up ... are eating all. (www.mazapanchito.cl)
In
our guided expedition services we provide:
1- Local guides with many years of experience
climbing mountains in their own countries. Chilean and
argentinean local guides that work
in Aconcagua and Central Andes of Chile, have a lot of
experience working at high altitudes. (Max. ratio guide - client, 1:3).
Also for our Patagonian trips in Torres del Paine,
Ice Cap and Fitz Roy area, our guides staff have been working
in this area for at least 8 years with a complete knowledge
about history, flora and fauna of Patagonia.
As well as the guides that work in Aconcagua,
Peruvian mountain guides have been born near these mountains
and glaciers.
Our local guides provide you with an incomparable experience with their
culture, nature and friendship, making your expedition more
enjoyable with a high standar.
2- Our High Mountaineering trips are designed
to have the best acclimatization,
having the possibility to climb a smaller height before attempting to climb a great
summit such as the Aconcagua. We plan our itineraries very
carefully. Our trips are specially designed to give our
clients the best possible chance or reaching the summit. We
have plenty of days built into our schedules in case we are
forced to wait out stormy weather. We have a safe and slow
ascent plan which is necessary for proper acclimatization. We
are extremely efficient during the entire expedition, but we
do not rush things or skip important details. On our Aconcagua
Normal Route expedition we take an extra day in Penitentes to
do an acclimatization hike which has proven to help folks get
a jump on there acclimatizing. On the Normal route we take a
day at one of our permanently staffed camps to do a day hike
to the base of the impressive south face of Aconcagua. We have
adopted the climb high, sleep low program on our expeditions.
This works well for proper acclimatization and keeps our pack
weights down. We also have planned rest days built into our
schedules which we have found is necessary for muscle recovery
and also aids in acclimatization. Our guides have mountain of
experience dealing with the tribulations of high altitude
expeditions, sometimes itineraries need to be altered to cater
to the individual needs of our clients. Because of our low
guide-client ratio we are able to readily accommodate any
changes that may occur during any stage of the expedition.
3- The best common equipment: We take special care about the
quality of our equipment. Below there are a small description
about brands and models of some of our mountain equipment that
bring us safety on high mountain and trekking trips.
| - Mountain tents (Mountain Hard Wear, Hannah) |
Annapurna
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Trango 2
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Expedition |
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- Trekking tents for our
Pataginian trips (REI and Mountain Hard Wear)
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| - Base camp dinner tents (Mountain Hard Wear,
Ferrino and The North Face) |
SpaceStation |
StrongHold |
Satellite |
Campo
Base
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2
MeterDome
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- Tables and chairs for base camp and trekking
trips (Camp Time)
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- MSR XGK Expedition Stove for high
mountaineering trips
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- Satellite Phone (fee per minute) Qualcomm, Globalstar.
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| - Nonin Pulse oxymeters
for high mountaineering expeditions. Every expedition has one
of these instruments to measure the saturation of oxygen
of each client allowing for daily control and safety in
the route to the summit. |
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| - Complete first aid kit |
| - VHF and UHF radios Kenwood & Motorola |
| - Solar panels for
charging batteries |
| - Water purifier at base camp |
4- Food. Our
meals are varied and well chosen. Fresh and delicious food is
always available in our trips. Vegetables, fruit, meet,
chicken and even fish are among our menu, as well as pastas,
rice, potatoes rich in carbohydrates. Wine, coke, beer,
biscuits, cheese, crackers and everything we need to make our
trip pleasant.
5- Mules, horses and donkeys. We have the best
service to carry our gear, with the friendship of our "arrieros"
(cowboys). We use mules in the Aconcagua and Central Andes,
horses in Patagonia and donkeys in Cordillera Blanca,
Perú.
6- Porters. We can
provide you with porters in all of our
high altitude expeditions as well in trekking expeditions. There
are available in Aconcagua, Andes Centrales, Cordillera Blanca
and Patagonia in the treks for Torres del Paine and Los
Glaciares.
7- Hotels and refuges. We stay at best hostels
in Patagonia. For our mountaineering trips we choose three and
four stars hotels in Santiago, Mendoza, Arica and Copiapo. For
Araucania and Lake Distric trips, we use cozy and comfortables
refuges.
8- Parks fees. As well as in Patagonia (Torres
del Paine and Los Glaciares) and Perú (Huascaran National
Park), and all parks along Chileand Andes range we include park
entrance fee.
9- Transportation. In our expeditions we use
the best qualified ground transportation, according to the roads
conditions and altitudes. For transport we use
4x4 pick up trucks and minibuses.
10- Departures. In all of our trips,
we can organize departure according your suggestions or
vacations. You can choose a special date for your departure in
a private trip (with a minimum of persons required) or book in
some of our fixed trips.
11- Travel Insurance. Each
season, a handful of clients have to cancel their trips at
the last minute due to unforeseen circumstances such as
flight delays or cancellations, illness or injury. For this
reason, Andes Mountain highly recommends the purchase of
travel insurance.
Here are a company from where you can get this service.
Travelex Insurance
company
