Hatun Machay

Wonderful days spent in Hatun Machay, doing what we love to do 🧗‍♀️and being where we love to be 🌄⛰️😌
Apart from many rock, 🐄 & 🐑 (very interesting for Leki) the only thing you can find there is a refuge for climbers.
It was nice to meet some other climbers, share our passion and have some tea together in the cold evenings. While everybody was freezing in a tent or the cold refuge we where happy to spend the night in warm Vanbora. Even though our van was very cozy and we were tired from climbing we didn't sleep well these nights. Sleeping quality at 4300m is just not great. Especially Vini was having troubles breathing while sleeping (strange thing, because during the day he felt great and had no troubles with altitude).
Climbing at this altitude felt hard (even harder than in Ecuador at 3800m 😅) but we didn't care too much. Just happy to be climbing at such a magical place and touching good rock.
On the last day we climbed at an other place, only 30min away from Hatun Machay, on to the road to Lima. There was a small but well organized camping for free where we spent the night. Short session in the morning before it got too hot (full sun & no shade). Normally in Europe at 4000m it's cold but here in Peru at this altitude it can get pretty warm with 20°.Read more