The Ojos Del Salado volcano is the highest summit across Chile, the second summit in America, and it is also the tallest active volcano in the world. That’s why this is one of the most desired challenges among mountaineers around the world.

Day 1: Copiapó airport / Hotel / Our service begins (IN)

We’ll meet you at the airport and take you to your hotel where you’ll have a talk with our guide in order to crystal clear any doubt clouding your mind and to check your equipment is proper and fitted for the purposes.

Day 2: Copiapó / Valle Chico

We set out towards Valle Chico to set up our first camp. This place is perfect to start our expedition because it has the ideal altitude for starting the acclimatization process.

Day 3:Valle Chico / Laguna Santa Rosa / Trekking

On this day we’ll set up the second camp around the 3700 meters in order to keep on with our acclimatization process, which is crucial to our objective. We’ll do a light trekking to keep with our acclimatization process in order to get our bodies accustomed to this high altitude desert environment. This trekking is to be done around the Laguna Santa Rosa lakeside.

Day 4:Climb mt 7 Hermanas (4700m) 

On this day we will perform our first ascension to the 7 Hermanas hill. Altitude: 4700masl.

Day 5: Laguna santa Rosa / Laguna Verde

On this day we’ll finish the first stage of our expedition. We’ll head toward Laguna Verde where we’ll set-up the base-camp, rest for the remaining day and get ready for the days to come.

Day 6: Laguna Verde / climb Mulas Muertas (5600m).

On this day we’ll put our bodies to the test. We´ll see how your body is enduring the lack of oxygen in this area. We'll go up a bit higher than 5,600 meters and then go back to sleep at the Laguna Verde.

Day 7: Laguna Verde / San Francisco or Vickuña (6100m)

In order to go forward into our expedition, we will ascend a 6000 and so check how our body reacts when facing that kind of altitude. We can either choose between Mt. San Francisco, at the frontier with Argentina, or Mt. Vicuñas. Both are above the 6000masl.

Day 8:Laguna Verde / Refuge Atacama

This is the last day we’ll be able to use the 4WD vehicle. We’ll transport the equipment to Refuge Atacama and from there we’ll have to work harder.

Day 9:Refuge Atacama / Refuge Tejos / Refuge Atacama

Each one of us has to carry his/her personal equipment plus a piece of the common equipment towards Refuge Tejos in order to prepare our last camp (high camp) and it clearly helps with the acclimatization process. Once we get to the shelter we’ll get some rest, leave our equipment there and head back to Refuge Atacama to sleep.

Day 10:Refuge Atacama / Refuge Tejos

We’ll carry the remaining equipment towards Refugio Tejos. This time we’ll spend the night there. Since we’ve already carried most of the equipment the day before, we’ll be saving a lot of necessary energy for our next day, which is without doubt the most important day of our expedition.

Day 11:Refuge Tejos /climb Ojos del Salado / Refuge Atacama

We’ll set out early morning to reach the Ojos Del Salado summit (6,893masl). On this day we’ll see how all of our hard work flourishes. All the previous acclimatization process is to endure this SO challenging summit. No doubts about it, this is the hardest day in our expedition. We’ll be ascending 1,000 meters, crossing a glacier, rock climbing, reaching the summit, descending, and carrying the equipment back to Refugio Atacama all in the same day.

Day 12: Extra Summit Day

Day 13: Refuge Atacama / Copiapó Hotel

This is the last day we’ll spend in the Parque Nevado de Tres Cruces area. Calmly we’ll take-down our camp and head back to Copiapó, leaving behind us this giant, the highest summit in Chile and the tallest volcano in the world

Day 14:Hotel / Copiapó Airport / End of our services (OUT)

The whole group will be driven to the airport.

The itinerary described above is a guideline. Be aware that some changes might be done
during the expedition due to weather issues. If the expedition is compromised due to a
weather condition like snow storms with intense cold, or to an acclimatization difficulty
from one of the members of the expedition, the chief-guide has the obligation to modify or
even abort the whole expedition program if needed. The above is for you to be aware that if something goes wrong you need to understand and (fully) cooperate with the guide, since any wrong or “too-late” decision might be fatal.

Open Expedition: This expedition is shared with other climbers. The group consists
with a minimum of 2 and maximum of 12 climbers + guides.

Fixed departure dates:

• November 18th, 2018
• December 16th, 2018
• December 23th, 2018
• January 27th, 2019
• February 17th, 2019
• February 24th, 2019
• March 10th, 2019
• March 24th, 2019

Facts:

• Program length: 14 days
• Altitude: 6893 m / 22615 ft
• Location: Copiapó, Chile
• Slope: 2500 m / 8200 ft from Laguna Verde
• Season: November to March
• Difficulty: This is not a technical track, but it is physically challenging. It
• requires crampons and ice-axe (piolet)
• First ascent: 1937 by Justin Wojsznis and Jan Szczepanski (PL)
• Expedition Team size: min 2 and max. 12 climbers + guides