Ausangate Qampa Climbing Tour: Easy 2-Day Mountaineering Experience in Cusco with Panoramic Views
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Cusco

Qampa, also spelled Campa and Qampa, is the easiest, most popular mountain in Cusco and may be climbed without experience in mountaineering. It requires a glacier hike and sometimes a small rock climbing pass depending on the season. The summit offers a panoramic view that reaches to Salkantay over 200km to the NW.

Duration: 2 days
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

pacchanta baja - Your tour guide will collect you from your hotel in Cusco at 6:00 a.m.Afterwards, we drive towards Tinki, a small town located on the highway called Inter Oceanica, after 2,30 hours of driving. Here we have 30 minutes to stop to explore, take a breakfast, or buy some stuff that you could need on this tour. Then, we continue our drive to reach Pacchanta village at 4,060 m.Is this where we start our trek? 2 hours hike to Azulccocha, where we have lunch with stunning views of the snowcapped mountains around, and then continue our hike to reach our base camp at 4,680 meters above sea level. Once we arrive there, our tents will already be set up. We will have dinner and spend the first night there.

What's Included
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
What's Not Included
  • Water
  • Tips
Location
Cusco
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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941angelan
Sep 20, 2022
Jampa Mountain climb - Excellent service, really professional and friendly. I really enjoyed the climbing with the crew of Vidal Expeditions. Flavio our mountain guide was incredible leading inexperienced people to the summit of Qampa mountain 5,520 meters. This was our first ascents over this altitude and we did not have lot of experience. However Flavio made the best job ever to got the summit even we were really slow on the last part. Vidal Expeditions team were awesome, very helpful and happy to share things with us, Miguel our cook was excellent always providing 3 dishe on each meal. Angel and Mario were nice too taking care all our luggages. We really appreciate what they did for us on these two day climbing. I definitely recommend Vidal Expeditions and Flavio.
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Giulianag623
May 5, 2022
Fantastic Days - Qampa climb!! We had 2 incredible days hiking and climbing Qampa mountain around the Ausangate, we were only 2 people who decide to climb this mountain with 5,520m and took the service of Vidal Expeditions. They were great answering our emails and Vidal the owner provide us every details of this trip, our mountain guide was Urbano (Aka Chino) who made even better this two days trip, we hike and visited the 7 lakes on the first day, and he took incredible photos. The second day we woke up super early in order to reach the summit early morning to see the sunrise, after a few hours hike and climb we finally got the summit and got incredible views. Whole team were great for this adventure and I definitely recomment this climb for everyone who wants to experience climbing a mountain over 5,500m. and ask for Chino then you will thanks me later.
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Karin
Apr 27, 2022
Qampa Climbing with VE - We have climbed the Qampa mountain in Ausangate, we were only two people in the excursion and had 5 workers with us, (1 tour guide, 1 chef, 2 horse drivers and 1 chef assitant) they made great job in this 2 days trip. Our guide Vinerson was a native guy from the Andes who climbed a several times this Qampa mountain, the first day was nice because we visited the seven lakes. Thar was great and happy this is included in our tour. Incredible turquoise lakes with Ausangate mountain in the background made outstanding this trip. We hike for 5 hours exploring this such a nice place and Vinerson guided us to each of these even we had chance to see more lakes around our campsite. The second day was the most challenging of this trip because we have to woke up super early in order to reach the Qampa summit for the sunrise, have a breakfast and we have begun the walk to reach the moraine and start hiking on the glacier and fanlly climb the mountain to get the summit. They organized very well this trip, good climbing gears, camping equipment, meals was great, and the team were very professional. We definitely recommend VE and Vinerson for this climb. They will make sure you get the summit and have unforgettable experience.
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Victorious54
Jan 16, 2022
Qampa Climbing experience - We were two friends who decided to try Qampa summit. After searching on the google we found Vidal Expeditions and contacted them to see if we could go for this mountain. However they were kind of friendly helping us to organize our climbing tour. It was raining season so no way to reach the summit. Our guide was Chino a very professional man from the Peruvian Andes who was really enthusiastic about the weather and he motivated us to climb the next weekend. So we decided to book a tour tour for that dates. They prepared everything for us(Food, camping gears, team and entire transportation) we just took our bags and necessary equipment and began our adventure. The first day was a long drive about 3 hours until Pacchanta village where we start our hike for 2 hours until our lunch spot located on side of the lake, after explored this nice places we kept hiking to our base camp over 4680m. Our guide Chino provide us the instructions for the climbing after a short rest he took us to see a lake with brown color located a few minutos of hike from our campsite. Day 2, woke up super early 3:00am we have wonderful breakfast made by our cook Angel who is from this surrounded areas. And about 4:00am we left our campsite and hike to Qampa mountain, 1 hour hike we arrive to the moraine where we wear our climbing gears(crampons, rope, harness, helmet, carabiners, etc.) Chino prepared us very well for this experience. Then we climb on the snow for another hour to reach the summit 5.520m where we had an extraordinary view of the sunrise we did not expect to have this awesome view because we were on the rain season. However it was the best moment of my life to see such amazing views. Chino was right when he told us if we have positive mind everything will be fine even we could have nice weather, and that was true even with the difficulty to reach the summit we were super motivated what Chino told us with and we didn’t give us, and the price was this incredible view. We had enough time to enjoy our box lunch at the summit and descend to our campsite then have lunch and hike back to Pacchanta where we enjoy the hot spring to finally return to Cusco. Honestly is was my best experience in my whole life climbing for a first time a mountain over 5.520m. And Chino made incredible job to motivated us about it. If you are thinking to try any mountain in Cusco as your first time look for Chino and Vidal Expeditions they will organize everything for sure and believe me they have the enough experience to put your life in their hands. Thank you Chino and Vidal Expeditions I am sure u will return to Cusco to climb the Apu Ausangate.
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C3517xfrominap
Sep 20, 2021
Qampa Mountain Climb - Just returned from climbing Qampa mountain with Julian, who made a great job...We had all included in the package, it means transport, all meals (breakfast on the first day you need to pay by your own) The guide Vinersson was really friendly and knowledgeable, thanks to him we got the summit early morning to enjoy the sunrise, the coca tea at the peak help u to feel better once we got 5520 meters. It is good option to be away of the crowd and Vidal Expeditions do the right to preserve the environment with they proyect "Ausangate not trash" and very helpful for our earth. Good quality climbing gears and professional team.
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Thomasgg726fs
Sep 7, 2021
Qampa & Machu Picchu Adventures - I have been enjoying the adventures with Vidal Expeditions, I just finished a climbing tour around Ausangate mountain in Cusco, my guide was Chino who was very professional since beginning to the end. It was an adventure trip with my wife and me who decided to climb Qampa mountain after our trek to Machu Picchu by the Inca Trail, Our adventure began since I contacted to Vidal and they organized every details of this journey to Peru, since the pick up from the airport in Lima, transfer to our hotel, flight to Cusco, acclimatizations stay there for our Inca Trail, Vidal team was tailored perfectly to our travel desires, Our guide was Jhonatan who was exceptional along the trek, the porters, chef and whole team were incredible doing a hard job for us, I really appreciate everything from them. Machu Picchu at the end of of hike was phenomenal. The things we like most about Vidal Excpeditions is that they can organize a local experience tailored to your needs, They support the local community and people directly, they work closely with local families to create trek through areas that are not permitted by other agencies. I highly recommend them for your adventure in Cusco and also recommend them for technical climbing as well, Specially to Jhonatan and Chino both are incredible tour and climbing guides.
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Killian
Aug 13, 2021
Qampa Climb in Ausangate - Had such a great days traveling to Peru, i decided to spend extra days in Cusco after to do the trek of Salkantay, i contacted to Vidal Expeditions for my last trip in Cusco. Thank you Raul for a wonderful Qampa climbing 2 days. We went to Ausangate which was a outstanding area perfect place for beginners and novices. I have climbed lots snow hills in Canada, however it was my first time climbing a mountain over 5,520 meters and Raul was very good at guiding me whilst I was on the mountain, whilst challenging my technique and my confidence over 3000 meters! I'm currently learning Spanish and Raul was super patient he spoke perfect English but he encouraged my Spanish as well. Very professional, good conversation and beautiful place (stunning view over the whole of the Andes) to climb. Qampa has grades from 4a's for beginners all the way up to 7a's. We climbed for the regular route with various grades. 100% recommended for everyone who loves to try outdoor activities.
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875emmyg
Jun 7, 2021
Qampa Climbing 2 Days - Qampa mountain climb in Ausangate was one of my best experience i have done during my life, and Vidal Expeditions made of it possible with a great climbing team! Angel was our high mountain guide who led us to the summit 5,532 meters, (first time on this kind of elevation) They were very professional providing a great service taking care about every small details during the trip since the information we got a day before our departure from our guide who explained to us the itinerary of 2 days. The first day they come early to pick up and drive towards Pacchanta village where we start our trek after a hike of 5 hours betweend gorgeous lakes and views we arrived to the base camp 4,760m. The second day we woke up early to start climbing with all our gears on, after a few hours climbing we got the summit over 5,532m at 6:18am in time for sunrise that was the highlight in this trip and Ángel made excellent job along the tour. The whole trip was very well organized meals, climbing gears, camping stuff and the team(Chef, horse driver and guide) Highly recommend!
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Gt2019g
Feb 8, 2020
Qampa clambing - We had to climbed the Qampa mountain which was 5560 meters, our guide was Flavio who was really professional he was leading the group of 2 people we didn't have any problem to get the summit, all Vidal Expeditions team work hard to get lifetime experience, i would to recommend Flavio and VE team to climb this mountain.
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Lara8t
Sep 17, 2019
BEST EXPERIENCE - I did the Qampa Climbing 2 days 1 night with Vidal Expeditions it was one of my best experience in whole my life, Vidal is really professional, they provide me all the gear which were safe, the organiztion was excellent food and professional people (cook and horse driver) it was difficult 5,560meters but it was worth it, with amazing views of the andes.
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