Hotel Colomba Huaraz

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... has thirty three major peaks over 5,500 metres (18,040 ft) high in an area only 21 kilometres wide. To put that into perspective, Mount Cook in New Zealand is the highest point at 3,754 metres (12,320 ft), with only 16 other points in that range exceeding 3,000 metres in height. Translation: there are a hellava lot of huge mountains here!

And we planned on getting as close as we could to some of the more spectacular peaks. A trek that seemed good ...

... hot shower back at the hostel to wash off four days of dirt and sweat. And there was me thinking I'd got a tan!

That evening I met up with three of the French people for a celebratory dinner at a French restaurant. There they introduced me to the marvels of raclette... mmmmmmmm. It involves having a little fondue-type fire with little grill pans on the top in which you melt cheese and then dribble it all over potatoes, tomatoes and meat. It wasn't up to ...

... village of Catac and found the one hostel there but it had no parking available. We were told to go to this old lady's place and ask her to park in her yard, but communication with her was almost impossible and we decided it would just be easier to head out of town and find a place to throw the tent. I looked on the map and saw an ...

... and good dinner and we got up the next morning to get the tire fixed by a local vulcanizadoro - tire repair guy - who made the tire hold air again for a charge of about $5.

So now we will be heading to the hot springs near Chavin and then on to Lima....



Then we had some rough road to ride and we made it u

... I´ve always read about in mountaineering tales. In order to climb a mountain totally encapsulated in snow one must do alot of things that go against sane forms of thought. You have to set out in darkness in order to start your climb with crampons while the snow is still firm in order to avoid avalanche danger. Ice axes are a necesity to carry in case you slip and fall, or someone in your group does, you´re to fall on your axe and hang on for dear life in order not to ...

... at 2am that night after only 10 minutes. I was breathing like Darth Vader and my legs had lost all their strength - so i curled up in Stav´s -18C bag whilst the rest climbed Vallunaraju. The summit obviously wasn´t meant to be - i didn´t miss anything from a learning perspective and i think i made the right choice - but like in many sports, it was probably harder to turn back than just plod on and do it, but from a safety perspective that would have been stupid!

Upon ...

... und auf einen schoenen ruhigen Platz schaut. Einen Hacken sagt uns Luciana gleich. Ab morgen werden die Bauern hier streiken und fuer drei Tage kommt alles zum erliegen. Die sind sehr aggressiv und schiessen und werfen mit Steinen auf alles, was sich bewegt. Es werden keine Busse fahren und es wird Demos geben. Ach ja, jetzt schiesst gerade jemand draussen. ..
Wir gehen abend noch lecker essen trinken ein Cusquenja Cerveca.
Heute morgen weckt die Sonne ...

... tracks instead) for 6 hours to the pass. We actually thought we´d got there after 3 hours, hoisted the Aussie flag for the photo, snow caps in the background, only to see another pass above us, and then another above that, and..................you get the picture. We were so buggered when we got to the top by late afternoon, but so proud of our stamina - the air was so thin, we could just about put one foot in front of the other, but we´d just kept going and ...