
El Plomo
expedition
can be added to La
Paloma making a
9 days
mountaineering trip. Ask for Plomo-Paloma price.
Pictures
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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.
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SEASON
2012-2013 |
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| 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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