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El Plomo expedition can be added to La Paloma making a 9 days mountaineering trip. Ask for Plomo-Paloma price.

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 El Plomo

Altitude : 17,815 ft. (5.430 m.)
Duration : 5 days
Difficulty: Easy - high altitude.
Minimum : 2 persons
Suitable date : October - April

El Plomo summit 17,815 ft. (5.430 mts.), is the highest mountain viewed from Santiago. Formerly visited by the Incas to make his rituals, it is an incomparable beauty. Technical routes (with ice and snow climbing passages) and non technical route we can do to reach this top. Normal route does not require important mountain experience, only good physical condition and good personal equipment for cold temperatures.

Near the summit we will appreciate the place where a Inca mummy was found. The Plomo Mummy (La Momia del Cerro El Plomo in Spanish) is the well preserved remains of an Incan child found on Cerro El Plomo in 1954, It was the first frozen mummy discovery of high-altitude human sacrifice by the Incas.
The mummy is curated by the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago, Chile and it has a replica of the mummy on public display.
  SEASON 2012-2013
   
TRIP EL PLOMO
1 November 10 - 14 (2012)
2 December 3 - 7 (2012)
3 December 26 - 30 (2012)
4 January 5 -9 (2013)
5 February 5- 9 (2013)
6 March 1 - 5 (2013)
7 March 21 - 25 (2013)



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Day 1: Arrival to Santiago.
Pick up at the Santiago airport and transfer to our hotel in Santiago. Here our guide will check your mountaineering equipment and reviw El Plomo program. Dinner not included.
Day 2: Santiago - Valle Nevado.
Breakfast. Our objective is reach the imposing summit of El Plomo (17,815 ft. - 5,430 mts.). Ground transfer from Santiago to Valle Nevado ski resort, 1,5 hours. Here we find our Mules that will carry our equipment until Piedra Numerada place of our first camp at 3,330m. Set up our camp and Dinner.
Day 3: Camp La Olla.
Breakfast in the morning. Ascent towards our second camp La Olla 13,124 ft. (4.000m), this is our El Plomo base camp, located at the end of the Cepo valley. From here we have an impressive view of the Iver glacier (technical ice route), and our normal route for climb this mountain at the right side of the mountain, (no technical). Dinner.
Day 4: Summit Day.
Summit day. Before sunshine, with our head lamps we will leave our camp. There are about 6 hours until the summit. After reach the top of El Plomo and observing imposing summits like Aconcagua, Juncal, Tupungato, and Altar-Paloma, etc., we will descend via normal route at our base camp. Dinner.
Day 5: Base camp - Santiago.
Walk down to Valle Nevado and ground transfer to Santiago. Hotel. Dinner not included.


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Service includes: 

- Mountain Guides
- Two hotel nights in Santiago, double room with breakfast
- Private ground transport
- Mules for common gear
- Mules for personal mountaineering equipment
- High mountain tents
- Base camp dinner tent with tables and chairs
- Equipment of high mountain
- Ice screws, ropes, carabiners, etc.. (Iver Route)
- Medicine kit
- Radio communication
 - Meals while we are in the mountain (breakfast, dinner and box lunch)

El Plomo Mummy
El Plomo Inca Mummy
 Service does not include:

- All personal climbing equipment
- Accident and rescue insurance
- Cash for extra expenses
- Extra meals in cities
 - Sleeping bag and mattress



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Central Andes: Altar and Paloma....El Plomo...Tupungato....Marmolejo/San Jose Volcano....Maipo Volcano
South Central Andes: Descabezado Grande Volcano


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El Plomo map


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