MT. PLATA EXPEDITION - SERVICES

Transfer Mendoza / Vallecitos / Mendoza
We will drive you over 100 kilometers, which separate Mendoza City from Vallecitos, in our own vehicles. You will have the possibility to see the most beautiful scenery on the journey.

 

Meals
Throughout the expedition you will enjoy all meals (B: breakfast / PL: packed-lunch / D: dinner), carefully planned by professionals to have a balanced diet during those days on the mountain.

Those meals mentioned in the itinerary are included.
If you are vegetarian or celiac, or if you need a special diet, please let us know in your Booking Form. It will be a pleasure for us to prepare a special menu for you. This service has an extra cost.

 

Mules
The ordinary equipment of expedition (kitchen sets, altitude food, fuel stoves and ropes) will be carried by mules from Vallecitos to Piedra Grande and from here to El Salto.

Mules from El Salto to Vallecitos at the returning are not included, which means that each one of the passengers must help to carry this equipment.

Each client has to carry his own personal equipment in each section.

 

Our Guides
Our mountain guides are qualified professionals of the AAGM (Argentinean Association of Mountain Guides) and the EPGAMT (School of High Mountain and Trekking Guides). The last qualification is the result of 3 years of study. We believe that to succeed in our expeditions, professionals with experience and the ability to offer security should guide our teams.
The expeditions are led by a mountain guide to every 3 clients. Their equipment includes: VHF radio, a first aid kit, complete with the appropriate medicines for altitude sickness, ropes, an altimeter, and professional clothing and equipment. All these will provide security and comfort.

 

Tents
We use The North Face and Mountain Hardwear products, which have proved to work well for our clients over the years. Usually two climbers will sleep in each tent, but if our guide considers it necessary, a maximum of three climbers may sleep in each tent. Remember that each passenger has to set up the tent with his partner. The guide will help you when necessary.

 

Extra Day
Our expedition includes one extra day in case of contingencies that may prevent the normal development of the itinerary.
Aymara takes the responsibility to develop the program as it has been described. However, sometimes conditions are out of our control, and our guides reserve the right to modify the schedule in response to the circumstances and safety of the group. If this situation arises, the client will not receive any sort of severance pay.

 

 

The transfer from the airport to the hotel at the beginning of the expedition, ant the transfer from the hotel to the airport at the end of the expedition, are not included.

 

The Hotel in Mendoza city is not included in the expedition program, but if you need some help with the hotel reservation, please inform us and we will be able to help you with this.

 

Drinks and other personal costs in Mendoza
Extra expenses like food or drinks separate from those described in the itinerary should be paid by you, as they are not included.

 

Expenses for giving up the expedition
In order to have better but cheaper services, the expedition is quoted taking into account the whole group. In any case that you give up the scheduled itinerary because of personal problems, mountain sickness, etc, you start taking private and individual services. (For example the transfer from Vallecitos to Mendoza city).

 

Sleeping bag and Personal Equipment
Neither the technical nor the mountain equipment are included services, so you would have to buy it or rent it. Take into account our guides if you need assistance. 
If you rent equipment, you will be responsible for it. Apart from that, you must give the equipment back to the mountain shop in time. Each person is responsible for his belongings and personal equipment.

 

Personal Insurance
Having a personal insurance is not a fundamental requirement to climb the Mt. Aconcagua. However, we suggest you to contact an insurance company if you wish to take insurance out, taking into account the risks involved in climbing a mountain.

 

Problems with your luggage (Loss or delay during the flight)
If your luggage is lost during your flight, or it arrives later than you do in other flight, you will have to work the problem out with the corresponding air line. Aymara is not responsible for such an event.
In the same way, if your luggage does not arrive in Mendoza in time for the departure date of the expedition group to Puente del Inca, the expedition will be carried out as initially planned, and you will be responsible for those extra expenses caused by this shortcoming.