DETAILS:
- 5 Days/5 Nights
- 3 Nights in tent and 2
nights Hotel in Santiago
- Transfers from/to airport
or Hotel in Santiago, Chile
El Plomo
summit 17,815 ft. (5.430
mts.), is the highest
mountain viewed from
Santiago. Climbers goes to
El Plomo as a
acclimatization trip before
Aconcagua
expedition.
Formerly visited by the
Incas to make his rituals,
it is an incomparable
beauty. Technical routes
(with ice and snow climbing
passages) and non technical
route we can do to reach
this top. Normal route does
not require important
mountain experience, only
good physical condition and
good personal equipment for
cold temperatures.
Near the
summit we will appreciate
the place where a Inca
mummy was found.
The Plomo Mummy (La Momia
del Cerro El Plomo in
Spanish) is the well
preserved remains of an
Incan child found on Cerro
El Plomo in 1954, It was the
first frozen mummy discovery
of high-altitude human
sacrifice by the Incas.
The mummy
is curated by the National
Museum of Natural History in
Santiago, Chile and it has a
replica of the mummy on
public display.
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