Do not include: personal equipment (sleeping bag for -25Cº, very warm clothes like Goretex, polar, plastic shoes, crampons, sticks, etc.) special trips, insurances, Admission tax to Ojos del Salado.

Reservation must be done with at least a month in advance and paying the 30% of the value. Balance must be paid at the beginning of the expe. The price don't change if you get the summit or not. If you can't participate in an expedition reserved, the 30% will be used as reservation for another expedition afterwards.

For the “Summit Day”:

•1st 2nd y 3rd layers, ideal feather anorak for -30ºC.

•Gloves 3 layers (insulation, warming and wind stopper).

•Plastic shoes.

•Crampons.

•Termic Bottle (“Thermo”) for unless a liter.

•Sticks or marching axe.

For acclimatization hikes:

•1^st and 2nd layers, optional 3rd coat.

•Trekking shoes.

•Resting (or “refuge”) shoes.

•Solar protection, hat, sun creams, UV lenses.

•Sticks or axe.

•Equipment supplied by Aventurismo expediciones:

•Camp common equipment: Tables, chairs, dishes, silverware (knife, spoon, fork, tea spoon), glasses for hot and cold drinks, lamps, dinning tent for 8 to 10 people.

•First Aid box, mobile oxygen equipment.

•2 Radios HF (to communicate with camps), by every 4 climbers

•Mountain tents for 2 people , with “duroaluminium” sticks, model Ferrino Stardust, Lafuma Camp2, The North Face VE-25 or similar.

•During camps with vehicle, we use stoves with butane gas of 5 kgs.

•During high altitude camps we use small butane-propane stoves 80/20 or 70/30.

•4 WD vehicles for 4 climbers each. If necessary, we use without 4WD Vans for approaching trips.

•We provide 1 Mountain Guide with experience in the zone by every 4 climbers and camp assistants and conductors or cookers when necessary for more than 4 climbers expeditions.

Food:

Aventurismo expediciones provide breakfast, lunch, dinner and summit food during our expeditions.

Breakfast:: Coffee or tea, oak, cornflakes, long life bread, marmalade, low cream milk, butter, jam, cheese, eggs 2 times during the expe.

Lunch and dinner: spaghetti, soups, rice, cow meat, chicken meat, fresh salads the first days, Canned goods the next days, canned green salads (summit days), canned fish , etc, milk desserts , fresh fruits when possible and then canned fruits. Chilean Wines, coffee, tea or herb water.

Summit food: Chocolates, candies, dryer fruits, peanuts, raisins, almond, isotonic juices, water.

Water:

We recommend to drink unless 3 liters a day by each climber. We supply all the water necessary.

Emergency food:

We supply extra food for 3 more days apart from that of the expedition program.

Brief description of AVENTURISMO expediciones:

Maximiliano Martinez Espinoza is the leader of this company, he was an instructor of the National Mountaineering School (ENAM) and he was Patrol Chief of the Mountain Search and Rescue group (CSA), as operating chief is Sebastian Martinez Illanes, Mountain Guide and Mountain Instructor ENAM. By the time Aventurismo Expediciones gives their services to more than 150 mountain climbers every season. Our Guides are bilingual and they are all very good climbers. They are between 25 and 35 being most of them University Professionals. Our clients come from all over the world and our enterprise or their owners are much known through climber’s handbooks of several countries.

Guide functions

A Mountain Guide is a Professional of the mountain tourism and the principal chief of the expedition. His aim is to guide the group by the best route and with the best weather conditions to the summit and to the camps again. Personal security of the climbers is one of the most important duties, so his decisions can’t be discussed by any climber. Our programs can be changed in some of their parts and, if necessary, you can talk with the Guide before about it.

(i.e.- To change an acclimatization day for a summit day). Assistants are to serve people and they receive orders only from the guide.

Duties of the expedition members:

To Obey the Guide’s instructions.

To participate actively in the group in order to get the aims. To have good will and cooperation. To help a partner in difficulties. None may remain alone in the mountain. To Inform the Guide as soon as possible, when a trouble may become a problem.

Amount of climbers by group.

We can give service from 1 (one), up to 20 (twenty) climbers by expedition.

The best number by expedition is 7.

The climbing season goes from November to March and the best time is December, January and the beginning of March.

Our Prices:

·The price is the same if you get the summit or not. In all cases payment must be done before begining the expedition: 30% to confirm your reservation, and at least with a month in advance, and the balance at the begining of the expe.

·If you can’t participate in an expedition you reserved, you can use that value (30%) for another expedition in another date.

Security and rescue:

In Atacama Región there is a system of rescue in the mountain formed by Carabineros (Polices) and the Army. They decided thay any emergency below 4.000m. will be done by Carabineros and above that altitude by the Army Patrols.

Mountains in Atacama Region don’t have rock climbing problems and the principal health problems are related with bad acclimatization and the very low temperatures that sometimes go below the -30ºC.

Most of these problem are related with climbers that climb alone or with guides with poor experience.

Our enterprise has a system of swift evacuation. It consists in to have in every moment a vehicle and its conductor for transpot the climber with these problems to a hospital in Copiapó (260 kmts. From Ojos del Salado) and 3 to 5 hours of travel. This service has a cost of US$­­250 by trip.

In Copiapó there are hospitals (public and private) that can assist any health problem during the 24 hours.and most of them accept Credit Cards.

No Helicopter services in the Region but the airport has unless 2 flights a day to Santiago.