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Rappelling - Abseiling Ccorca.
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Rappelling or Abseil is the act of lowering oneself by a controlled descent by a rope in a vertical surface. It is actually considered a climbing skill that every climber should learn or a technique instead of a sport. Under the right conditions with a guide instructor, the use of ropework, anchors, climbing ropes and safety gear as helmet, arnes, descender, safety knots, carabiners. Is a very safe activity, and can be done by anyone in good shape (physical condition). although
Abseiling can be a dangerous activity, especially for inexperienced or unsupervised people
A good place that I recommend for the practice of rappelling close to cusco city is Ccorca village, hidden into the mountains at west area of Cusco approximately at 25 km and 45 min by car, surrounded by a rocky landscape.
The sandstone cliffs and red rock formations of Tecsecocha are perfect for the practice of rappelling, this area is a photographer's dream, and the ancient Ccorca etnic group mural painting will amaze you with their detail and history. They visited this area from approximately 300 B.C. to 1150 A.D. most likely for hunting, food gathering and religious ceremonies.
Your visit to Ccorca should include hiking, viewing of the mural painting, and Rappelling at sandstone cliffs. The rappelling is some of the best in the area, and is great for both beginners and experienced Rappellers. You will get 2 Rappels, ranging from 60-100 mtrs that you can chose according to your skills.
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Nada - nada Lead and Classic climbing.
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If you are going to the next level on climbing, Nada nada is the perfect place to practice different styles of climbing as lead climbing, classical climbing, and top roping.
located in a remote place, 25 minutes walk south of the village of Huayllarcocha, crossing countryside and eucalyptus forest, this route lies in the valley of Sebollahuayco knew by common consensus of climbers as "Nada-nada". This is a north facing limestone plaque with an approximate height of 14 meters / 45 feet, you have many options to climb.
The lead climbing route offers average difficulty with a 6b – 6b+ graduation and protected with 4 bolts, this is the left side route, with the difficult step between second and third bolt. Usually the run out is for left edge.
The classic route on the same plaque, right side large crag, has a difficulty of 6a and can be convine with the first vobt of left side route and can protected it with 2 or 3 big nuts in the crack af right side, before the final run out
The top rope route can be fixed in up in middle of routes so you can climb both
1. Nada nada 6b - 6b+ , 2 clasica 6a - 6a+.
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let's start defining what scrambling is, this activity is an off trail trip with the objetive of ascent mountains of easy acces through ridges, rocky faces etc. often snow or rock with a non technical summit, it means that it is reached without need of certain climbing equipment.
in some cases hands must be used in the ascent for keep balance. and not to hold the body weight. however it can mean negotiating lower angle rocks and crossing streams , dense vengatation etc.
The Apu Picol mountain is located 10 km east of cusco city, the summit reach 4400 mt / 14 ,435 ft considered a sacred shrine into the Inca culture where ancient ceremonies were performed.
the scrambling route to Apu picol ascent by the west face of mountain, it start near to Corao village, route is easy, good for novice scramblers and consist of a gentle slope cover by dense vegetation andean grass, with rocky seccions at summit although reach summit is easy, in bad weather conditions could be dangerous because enviroment becomes cloudy, mist can disorient scramblers very quickly, rain also become grassland really slippery.
ussually top can be reached in 2 hours, the round trip takes about 5 hours.
the scrambling route to Apu picol ascent by the west face of mountain, it start near to Corao village, route is easy, good for novice scramblers and consist of a gentle slope cover by dense vegetation andean grass, with rocky seccions at summit although reach summit is easy, in bad weather conditions could be dangerous because enviroment becomes cloudy, mist can disorient scramblers very quickly, rain also become grassland really slippery.
ussually top can be reached in 2 hours, the round trip takes about 5 hours.
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Rock Climbing - Bouldering La Garganta
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One of The most popular crags between locals is la Garganta, This small steep east facing crag, limestone of good quality is about 50 meters long and 10-12 meters height, surrounded by an eucalyptus forest, this wall is the perfect place to get started in rock climbing, for the variety of routes and difficulties. In addition caves and rock features in bottom for practice of traversing, and bouldering, to develop technique and strength. Located at 25 min of Cusco city, noted for its accessibility and proximity to the city, There are countless beautiful limestone outcrops spread around this place.Unfortunately this area is within the archaeological park of Sacsayhuaman and sometimes there is the possibility of meeting with the guardians of the park, they will be asked to leave immediately the archaeological park. One of the proposals of our project is trying to establish a dialogue with the ministry of culture to achieve an agreement for use and mark areas for the practice of this growing outdoor sport.
This guide on line is an updated review with the best routes to climb in la garganta.
The Updated Routes
1. 6a
2. 6b
3. 6a-6a+
4. 6a-6a+
5. 6b+-6c
6. 6b-6b+
7. 6a-6a+
8. 6b-6b+
9. 6b-6c
10. 6a-6b
How to reach
The crag can also be reached via public transportation, 30/25 min driving north from Cusco, just take “Señor del Huerto” vans on Paradero del Mercado de Rosaspata, ask driver for Huayllarcocha village, you should reach the village then follow 10 min the trail between Huayllarcocha village and the moon temple, south direction, once there at right side you should be able to see the crag.
The crag can also be reached via public transportation, 30/25 min driving north from Cusco, just take “Señor del Huerto” vans on Paradero del Mercado de Rosaspata, ask driver for Huayllarcocha village, you should reach the village then follow 10 min the trail between Huayllarcocha village and the moon temple, south direction, once there at right side you should be able to see the crag.
Finally
at June 2011 a dream come true, when a team of mountain guides and local mountaineers
organized a 6 days expedition to reach the Apu Ausangate summit at
6384m / 20944 ft. located 100 km south east
from Cusco. as the six people team were already acclimatized over 3500 meters, we decided to take the fastest access.
First
day expedition, We traveled by trucks about 5 hours to Hatun Chilca village. south cusco from there we walked 3 hours north to Andean lodge at
Machurajay, we arrived at sunset and spent night there.
The
second day we walked 5 hours north-east crossing the steep moraine to set the base camp 1 at 5200 m and
prepare ourselves for the next day.
The
The third day we tried to reach Apu Ausangate
summit by east face. we left camp 1 at dawn at 3 am, after 2 hours of climb a medium slope ice
terrain, we found a 200 m vertical rock and ice wall called "the shield", an 85 degrees technical slope full of
mix parts and loose rock, 2 and a half hours later
once on the upper part of the wall is set usually the camp 2, but we decided to
continue through a quite long 3 km average snow slope until a big crevasse 120 m before
summit, after cross it we continue by 75 degree slope until top of snow peak.
Reaching the summit.
June 12 at midday an amazing view wait for us, one remarkably moment into the mountaineers life, the summit of the highest snow peak on Cusco, the fifth in Peru. We reach the Apu Ausangate summit 6384m / 20944 ft, after 8 hours of hard ice climbing and perfect weather. finally it took 5 hours to climb down to return base camp1.
Day fourth we return to Andean Lodge at Machurajay for celebration, the fifth day we rested in the lodge and the sixth day we returned to Cusco .
Of course this is not a mountain for begginers, it is recommended have experience traversing glaciers, mix climbs on technical ice walls and an excelent phisical condition.
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Canyoning Paullo. Kloofing - River Trekking.
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Discover the most popular location for canyoning in Cusco, into rugged landscapes, a challenge which involves a 30 minutes’ walk up through a eucaliptus forest from Paullo village to the top of canyon, These canyon is cut into sandstone with moderate slopes and numerous drops, spectacular sculpted rock walls, cascades and waterfalls, this low volume canyon is recommended for beginners, it has many abseils including three spectacular waterfalls as long as 35/15/25 meters / 115/50/82 ft, and two little cascades of 5 meters / 16 ft, as a time where you have to lower yourself.
One of the crucial and mandatory skills required for most canyoning expeditions and tours is the ability to abseil. This is a canyon not to be missed!
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Boulder and Rock Climbing Routes in the Surrounding of Cusco
Posted: by EFREN LOPEZ in Labels: boulder
Rock climbing is growing rapidly and is wide open to exploration and new routes, there are several local climbers willing to point out established areas. Among the most well know and frequented places are the north area, the best lime stone climb area, routes have varying levels of difficulty to challenge all type of climbers, although many climbers adhere to "minimal impact" and "leave no trace" practices. Popular areas for climb and boulder are also archeological and sacred places for locals. People would prefer that climbers not climb these sacred places and have made this information well known to climbers (see advises) .The potential threat to these cultural resources has led to restrictions and shut the next climbing routes:
The Evils Balcony, La Garganta, Nomos, La Escuela.
Many non-climbers object the appearance of chalk marks, bolts and slings on visible cliffs. Since these features are small, visual impacts can be mitigated through selection of neutral rock-matching colors for equipment. Today the shut of climb routes more often is because disagreement about the appropriateness of drilling and placing permanent bolts and other anchors.
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Canyoning Huchuy Qosco 320.m/1050.f
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Huchuy Qosco canyoning is a real adventure that involves the descent of a huge deep ravine and watercourse with flowing and splashing water that may be really wet, steep cliffs inside canyon require a certain level of climb skills. climb on wet surfaces, also require specialized technical equipment such as a ropes, belay device, wetsuit, dry bags, anchors, knotting, etc However, because of the humid environment inside the canyon, some rock surfaces can be very wet and some rocks can be very loose despite appearing solid.
Deal with such wet climbing conditions has a certain level of risk. the Huchuyqosco Canyoning can be extremely dangerous and the Escape out the sides of a canyon is often impossible, and completion of the descent is the only possibility. Due to the remoteness and inaccessibility of canyon, rescue can be impossible for several hours or several days. Every year a few number of tourists and inexperienced guides get injured or need rescue and hence explorers need to take great care and preferably be accompanied by experienced guides.
A 100.m/328.f vertical canyonig a real extreme experience if you like adrenaline, One of geographical features of Cusco region are canyons, as Perolniyoc eroded by natural water courses melted from snowpeaks, made this place rarely explored, remote and rugged settings of difficult approximation tucked in the surrounding of Ollantaytambo village, becoming the perfect area for canyoning route, this activity often requires wilderness travel skills the descent assisted by ropes trough waterfalls associated with technical descents those that require rappels (abseils) and ropework, technical down-climb, technical jumps, and/or technical swims, remarking the plenty levels of difficult, heights and waterfall groups.
How to reach:
take a transportation to urbamba continue to pachar bridge 12 km of urubamaba once there cross the brigde and continue around 5 km until soqma village there you need to cross a litle bridge and climb 10 min to soqma comunity there the only way to continue is walking 2 km more to perolniyoc waterfalls.
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Big Wall Pachar
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Located into the sacred valley of the Incas at 85 km north to Cusco, Pachar offers numerous "big wall" routes with a nice variety of crags at higher elevations, a huge granite wall, approximately 700m./2300f. height the perfect place for experienced rock climbers, with constant new routes setting by local climbers. actually there are 6 diferent routes, the higher reach 180 meters and the others betwen 50 and 60 meters, all equiped with bolts and several sport and clasic routes. single and multi-pich climbs for everyone, experts will be able to find extremely difficult routes. One good advise try to visit this place for a weekend. you will love this place if you are a serious climber. 
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Updated routes
1. Negrita, 15 meters, sport route, 7 quickdraws, 6b/6b+
2. Dana, 30 meters, top rope, 6a
3. 30 meters, sport route, 7 quickdraws, V+
4. Clasica 1, 45 meters, clasic route, 5 bolts, V
5. Clasica 2, 45 meters, sport route, 15 quickdraws, V+
6. Diedro, 30 meters, sport route, 10 quickdraws, V
How to reach:
take a bus from the bus station at grau Av. to urubamba, you can take a taxi to for a few soles more the ride is about 1h or 1h 30m depending of your transportation. once at urubamba bus station look for the mini buses or taxis to ollantaytambo take it and ask driver for pachar bridge then when you be there walk 300m following the route to ollantaytambo and at right side of road is the climb area next to a quarry.
3. 30 meters, sport route, 7 quickdraws, V+
4. Clasica 1, 45 meters, clasic route, 5 bolts, V
5. Clasica 2, 45 meters, sport route, 15 quickdraws, V+
6. Diedro, 30 meters, sport route, 10 quickdraws, V
How to reach:
take a bus from the bus station at grau Av. to urubamba, you can take a taxi to for a few soles more the ride is about 1h or 1h 30m depending of your transportation. once at urubamba bus station look for the mini buses or taxis to ollantaytambo take it and ask driver for pachar bridge then when you be there walk 300m following the route to ollantaytambo and at right side of road is the climb area next to a quarry.
Climb Wall Casa Huayrawasi
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Climb wall with a height of up to 10m./33f. height, 70 square meters of climb area, lots of routes inverted cones, overhang. many different routes and levels, providing climbers of all abilities (from beginner to experts), with every challenge they could want, you can climb with top rope and sport climb sistems, original climb holds, a fun place with multilingual intructors (español/english/français). quality certificate climb gear, experience not required, totally unique facility.Organize:
climb courses, informative talks, events, tours and climb travels.
Activities season juan - jun 2012.
Courses of climb introduction for turism schools and universities.
How to reach:
Take a taxi and ask for ¨Paradero villa san blas¨. once there you must walk 250 m to villa san blas futbol field. then there turn right and 50m ahead is Casa Huayrawasi.
Map:
Video:Luis at Casa Huayrawasi.
Video:Luis at Casa Huayrawasi.
climb travel to peru
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Labels:
andes,
boulder,
canyoning,
cuzco,
mountaineering,
peru,
rock climbing
The Cusco region is located in the southern part of Perú, into the heart of Andes Mountain range at South America. The area has three mountain ranges called Vilcanota Urubamba and Vilcabamba that cross the entire region, it means the perfect place for the practice of outdoor activities as mountaineering."Climbing in Cusco¨The Proyect born in 2005, with great interest and enthusiasm in adventure, to search for data and create a register with the best places for explore, the promotion and difution of mountain activities as rock and ice climbing, climb wall, boulder, canyoning, rappell or abseil. with a constant register of maps locations of rock climbing cusco routes and around the area. we also organize excurtions , tours, expeditions and travels, we invite you to participate and enjoy our new alternatives in tourism
Enjoy these amazing places thanks for your visit .
Information: elefrenlp64@gmail.com with Efren.