Dear friends,

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.

Staff and Contact Information

Pedro Marzolo  (speak Spanish, English and Italian)
Director
Cell: + 56-9-97997493
Fax: +56-2-2341092
Santiago, Chile.
Mail: andes@andesmountain.cl
Claudia Sepúlveda (English and Spanish)
Trip coordinator.
Movil: + 56-
9-79985013
Santiago, Chile.
mail: claudia@andesmountain.cl
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
Gonzalo Vilches (Spanish and english)
Mountain Guide and mountaineering instructor. Guide for
Ski randonnee, rock and ice climbing.
Pucon. Chile.
Julieta Fernandez (Spanish, French and English)
Trekking guide for our trips in Patagonia (Torres del Paine).
Puerto Natales, Chile.
Fernando Opazo Marcerano (Spanish and English)
Mountaineering Guide for Atacama Desert and Central Andes and Aconcagua

Rodrigo Vera (Spanish and english)
Mountain Guide and mountaineering instructor. Guide for
Ski randonnee, rock and ice climbing.
Pucon. Chile.
Jose Rosen, "Vikingo" (Spanish, Italian and english)
Mountain and Trekking guide at Araucania and volcanoes area and
Torres del Paine.
Pucon. Chile.


Marco Garrido (Spanish and english)
Mountain and Trekking guide at Araucania and volcanoes area and
Torres del Paine.
Puerto Varas. Chile.
Veronica Irribarra (Spanish and Italian)
Patagonia
Office:
C. Eberhard 161, Puerto Natales,  Chile.
Mail: veronica@andesmountain.cl
Rodney Gonzalez (Spanish and English)
Mountaineering Guide for Atacama Desert, Central Andes alpine trips and Aconcagua.
Felipe Goreux  (Spanish and English)
Mountain and trekking Guide for Patagonian trips (Torres del Paine, Patagonia Ice Cap trips and Lake District)

Dario Aguilar
Patagonian camps, equipment maitenance and porter.
Puerto Natales, Chile.
Patricio Mercado
Porter for Patagonian trekkings and Ice cap traverse, logistic and camps.
Puerto Natales. Chile.

July 1978 - February 2011
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)

web site: www.andesmountain.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


Trango 2


Expedition



- Trekking tents for our Pataginian trips (REI and Mountain Hard Wear)

Taj 3

Hammerhead 3

- Base camp dinner tents (Mountain Hard Wear, Ferrino and The North Face)

SpaceStation

StrongHold

Satellite

Campo Base

2 MeterDome





- Tables and chairs for base camp and trekking trips (Camp Time)
 
- MSR XGK Expedition Stove for high mountaineering trips
- Satellite Phone (fee per minute) Qualcomm, Globalstar.

- 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.

- 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