I can not remember that the rest of the route and more than 10,000 feet below the top of the world, but it was a very good opinion anyway. I have it on the summit of El Misti, the volcano outside the city of Arequipa, Peru, which had called my name when I first saw him two years ago. I have vainly tried to walk one day then, Manon because of a delay in the departure and is not used to the altitude, about 15 500 feet. I still believe we can do as a day trip, there is a future goal.
I waited impatiently for my friends Jason and Lisa, beetles (Southern California Adventure Racing Buddies) members from Los Angeles to here. It was communicating via e-mail for month, because they are on a world tour, and we wanted to achieve when they came from Peru. Our appsOn change, but the Menschdie at the last moment, the grid and we were able to respond to a couple of times in Arequipa. I arranged to use a 4x4 Suzuki and Jason and I have plans to climb El Misti, Saturday and Sunday. Lisa has decided to relax in Arequipa we prepared for our drivers because it is not safe to leave a trace of the vehicle. We have some shopping velocirapidamente, and after losing on the road to the track in relationon the seguridadseguridad arrived and are ready to start ex-cursiones to 12.30 clock. We were told it was five hours of climbing camp, but is expected to be less, because it would mean that the arrival to camp, when night falls. I also recognize that we are in another song that I had tried two years before they are a completely new for me (there are three lines sommet).
We are well adapted to the years of my life at 8800 meters and is busylmig at altitudes over 12,000 feet of my age and Jason (relative) youth and three weeks trekking in high altitudes in Peru has done for his life in the sea in our LAfacile llowed way into the camp of 15,000 feet, where he was in three Hours and 10 minutes. We are pleased that the left had not only ssedersi before and during the chilly wind. It also has us hope that the appeal is five to seven hours to walk to the summit should be less. Teneramo inhas been formed to expect that this time as low as zero degree were so grateful to have been warmer than normal. Aided by cloud cover, has not been below 30 degrees, so we have hot notre20 degree sacks and cheap Wensel my tent.
After setting up camp, Jason proposal for a selection of the track in the direction of Summit, as we have planned to leave around 5:00 clock in the morning and you do not know whether you are here in the darkness. TenerMe easily find love the runway und was about 20 minutes on another site, people say that the planned departure for the summit at 2:00 clock. At the moment when we return to our camp, the wind had died and was warmer, especially after the warm-based chicken soup with noodles, tuna, cheese and bread and tea. I have my stove can Soda, which has worked well, after removing the windshield; I believe we need a little more air to this height. Our campsite neighbors, A Franzose who suffer altitude is not looking too good, we discovered that no Gropada the summit. There are still below the clouds to a clear overview of Arequipa, that the lights came on the quarter and the moon shines Misti about us. From 7.00 clock we have in our sleeping bag, hoping deobtenir a good sleep before the 4:00 alarm clock.
We could see the lights of other climbers, this seems a long way to go. Again, it is quite simple, not too much sand (in contrast to the path of my previous attempt) and rock big enough to make it interesting, but more difficult to see the runway. At that time I felt deep regret, I have my gloves that hastily packed for the trip, but Jason said that his hand is hot and her ichwrde - thanks Jason!
About this time it took the two other groups have started earlier, but the EscaCecchi was very slow. One of the officers asked if one of your team members can continue Steve joined us, once again a good game, we were all gathered at the same speed, with short breaks in voltiosa once. We have lost sight of this and we will trefaible nicht see another time, until he returned to his camp, unfortunately, had to go back and have not been able to raggiungerezione the summit. When we were about half an hour, we saw a large group at the top. They climbed on a shorter stretch on the back, we met after the exploration of the crater. We have finally received on Sunday, when it comes to a saddle between the summit and the crater, which felt really good. We represent the dark sideDELE beherrschendenngo away, it's very cool, but also for lavoratoLTD a beautiful view over Misti casts a shadow over miles of landscape, when the sun rises on the other side. At 8:55, after crossing a few small patches of snow and some stretch of sand, at the peak of 19,100 feet, four hours and 10 minutes from the area. We are surprised at the great cross of iron, some 20 meters high that was there. E 'was in sectionss, each about three feet long. I could not take place, even sectionl high. We had hoped that he was so helicopters were complete; shame on the super-man would have for each room.
After taking a lot of pictures of the almost unreal landscape offered by the crater, black sand, light rocks and snow, and a few more of neighboring 19,925 foot Chachani, we went down to the saddle and ate a light snack. Both of us were feeling good, no altitude problems but to keep it that way we decided to forgo exploring the crater and headed back down. We didn't hire a guide for the climb but were fortunate that Marcio, my guide friend, went with us to the trailhead and pointed out the route up to us. Steve's guide explained the route back down to camp. No need to hike down, just go over to the dark gray sand slope and "ski" down that, lots of fun! We stopped at Steve's camp and left him there with his teammates who were packing up, and then continued on down.
We made it down to our camp in about two hours; we would have made it faster except we stopped to take a lot of pictures of our fun descent! After a simple lunch (should have brought another package of soup), which finished all of our food except a little trail mix, we broke camp and headed on down. There was no rush because Lisa wasn't scheduled to meet us until 4:00 pm. We had expected on being at the summit about noon, instead we were back at camp by 11:00 am. After a couple of final photos at the trailhead, we decided to walk down the dirt road, getting almost to the highway before meeting Lisa and Marcio. That gave us plenty of time to talk about our next adventure, after they finish their trip. Of course Chachani is calling our names, there are also two 6,000 meter mountain peaks on the way to Cotahuasi where I live, Coropuna at 21,075 feet and Solimana at 19,985 feet. And then there is my plan for a two week bike ride, all between 9,000 and 16,000 feet. - 16492
I waited impatiently for my friends Jason and Lisa, beetles (Southern California Adventure Racing Buddies) members from Los Angeles to here. It was communicating via e-mail for month, because they are on a world tour, and we wanted to achieve when they came from Peru. Our appsOn change, but the Menschdie at the last moment, the grid and we were able to respond to a couple of times in Arequipa. I arranged to use a 4x4 Suzuki and Jason and I have plans to climb El Misti, Saturday and Sunday. Lisa has decided to relax in Arequipa we prepared for our drivers because it is not safe to leave a trace of the vehicle. We have some shopping velocirapidamente, and after losing on the road to the track in relationon the seguridadseguridad arrived and are ready to start ex-cursiones to 12.30 clock. We were told it was five hours of climbing camp, but is expected to be less, because it would mean that the arrival to camp, when night falls. I also recognize that we are in another song that I had tried two years before they are a completely new for me (there are three lines sommet).
We are well adapted to the years of my life at 8800 meters and is busylmig at altitudes over 12,000 feet of my age and Jason (relative) youth and three weeks trekking in high altitudes in Peru has done for his life in the sea in our LAfacile llowed way into the camp of 15,000 feet, where he was in three Hours and 10 minutes. We are pleased that the left had not only ssedersi before and during the chilly wind. It also has us hope that the appeal is five to seven hours to walk to the summit should be less. Teneramo inhas been formed to expect that this time as low as zero degree were so grateful to have been warmer than normal. Aided by cloud cover, has not been below 30 degrees, so we have hot notre20 degree sacks and cheap Wensel my tent.
After setting up camp, Jason proposal for a selection of the track in the direction of Summit, as we have planned to leave around 5:00 clock in the morning and you do not know whether you are here in the darkness. TenerMe easily find love the runway und was about 20 minutes on another site, people say that the planned departure for the summit at 2:00 clock. At the moment when we return to our camp, the wind had died and was warmer, especially after the warm-based chicken soup with noodles, tuna, cheese and bread and tea. I have my stove can Soda, which has worked well, after removing the windshield; I believe we need a little more air to this height. Our campsite neighbors, A Franzose who suffer altitude is not looking too good, we discovered that no Gropada the summit. There are still below the clouds to a clear overview of Arequipa, that the lights came on the quarter and the moon shines Misti about us. From 7.00 clock we have in our sleeping bag, hoping deobtenir a good sleep before the 4:00 alarm clock.
We could see the lights of other climbers, this seems a long way to go. Again, it is quite simple, not too much sand (in contrast to the path of my previous attempt) and rock big enough to make it interesting, but more difficult to see the runway. At that time I felt deep regret, I have my gloves that hastily packed for the trip, but Jason said that his hand is hot and her ichwrde - thanks Jason!
About this time it took the two other groups have started earlier, but the EscaCecchi was very slow. One of the officers asked if one of your team members can continue Steve joined us, once again a good game, we were all gathered at the same speed, with short breaks in voltiosa once. We have lost sight of this and we will trefaible nicht see another time, until he returned to his camp, unfortunately, had to go back and have not been able to raggiungerezione the summit. When we were about half an hour, we saw a large group at the top. They climbed on a shorter stretch on the back, we met after the exploration of the crater. We have finally received on Sunday, when it comes to a saddle between the summit and the crater, which felt really good. We represent the dark sideDELE beherrschendenngo away, it's very cool, but also for lavoratoLTD a beautiful view over Misti casts a shadow over miles of landscape, when the sun rises on the other side. At 8:55, after crossing a few small patches of snow and some stretch of sand, at the peak of 19,100 feet, four hours and 10 minutes from the area. We are surprised at the great cross of iron, some 20 meters high that was there. E 'was in sectionss, each about three feet long. I could not take place, even sectionl high. We had hoped that he was so helicopters were complete; shame on the super-man would have for each room.
After taking a lot of pictures of the almost unreal landscape offered by the crater, black sand, light rocks and snow, and a few more of neighboring 19,925 foot Chachani, we went down to the saddle and ate a light snack. Both of us were feeling good, no altitude problems but to keep it that way we decided to forgo exploring the crater and headed back down. We didn't hire a guide for the climb but were fortunate that Marcio, my guide friend, went with us to the trailhead and pointed out the route up to us. Steve's guide explained the route back down to camp. No need to hike down, just go over to the dark gray sand slope and "ski" down that, lots of fun! We stopped at Steve's camp and left him there with his teammates who were packing up, and then continued on down.
We made it down to our camp in about two hours; we would have made it faster except we stopped to take a lot of pictures of our fun descent! After a simple lunch (should have brought another package of soup), which finished all of our food except a little trail mix, we broke camp and headed on down. There was no rush because Lisa wasn't scheduled to meet us until 4:00 pm. We had expected on being at the summit about noon, instead we were back at camp by 11:00 am. After a couple of final photos at the trailhead, we decided to walk down the dirt road, getting almost to the highway before meeting Lisa and Marcio. That gave us plenty of time to talk about our next adventure, after they finish their trip. Of course Chachani is calling our names, there are also two 6,000 meter mountain peaks on the way to Cotahuasi where I live, Coropuna at 21,075 feet and Solimana at 19,985 feet. And then there is my plan for a two week bike ride, all between 9,000 and 16,000 feet. - 16492
