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Slideshow (38 photos)

Vilcanota (Peru) (map)
 

Simeon's "Peru 2000" page, including a day-by-day report of the trip

  Arapa Pass

Horses crossing the stream

  Auzangate
 

Martin's homemade anti-bot plates

 

Base camp for Auzangate

East Face: High camp on Auzangate (Copyright © Martin Villarica)

East Face: Dawn from above 6000m on Auzangate

East Face: Descending from the high point on Auzangate

 

East Face: High point on the ridge on Auzangate

 

East Face: Resting above the headwall

 

Loading the horses at base camp

 

East Face: Martin at the high point on Auzangate

 

East Face: Martin nearing the high point on Auzangate

East Face: Jim, rapping off the headwall on Auzangate (Copyright © Martin Villarica)

 

East Face: Simeon at the high point on Auzangate

 

East Face: Simeon and Eric crossing a snow bridge above 6000m

 

East Face: Eating soup at high camp

 

East Face: Topping out on the headwall

 

Lois perched on an island of moss on the way back to Tinqui

 

View from the top of the headwall at dawn, mountains labeled

  Campa

North Face: Summit of Campa

  Campa Pass

Closer to Campa Pass; looking at Ccapana, Pachanta, and Jatunhuma (in the distance)

 

Approaching Campa Pass, looking at Ccapana, Pachanta

 

Approaching Campa Pass with the mountains labeled

  Jampa
 

Passing through Jampa on our way to Auzangate base camp

  Laguna Pucacocha
 

Breakfast on the trek

 

Camp above the lake, drying out tents

  Mariposa
 

East Face: On the hike up to high camp on Mariposa

Mariposa from high up on Auzangate

 

Mariposa high camp

  Pachanta

Little girl wandered into base camp near Pachanta

 

Tres Amigos near Pachanta

 

Lois wearing a traditional hat

  Ticllacocha

View looking back at Campa Pass (on the left) and the lakes of Ticllacocha

 

Labeled view of the Ticllacocha area

  Tinqui
 

Alpaca

 

Simeon in need of a wash

Woman spinning wool

 

Apolinar and Martin (dressed as the president) at the hotel in Tinqui

 

Weighing the lamb for dinner