around ausangate Photo Gallery by geniza at pbase.com

around ausangate

these are pictures of an 80 km trek around the ausangate massif, the highest peak in the vilcanota range of southern peru at 6372m. the trek around ausangate took us five days, of which the first three had lots of clouds and some precipitation. finally, after a thunderous snow storm on the night of the third, we woke up to blue skies and sunshine, and ausangate itself.

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huts beyond tinqui (3800m) at the start of the trek	kids on the trail	huts, corrals, animals near upis (4400m)	approaching ausangate near our first camp
climbing to the arapa pass (4850m)	07-36.jpg	lake jatunpuqacocha	08-11.jpg
08-16.jpg	08-24.jpg	08-28.jpg	towards the palomani pass (5200m)
view on the other side of palomani as storm clouds gather	09-12.JPG	09-13.JPG	09-18.JPG
09-19.JPG	landscape of the altiplano on the southern side of ausangate	09-25.JPG	alpacas and nevado tres picos (6093m)
huts and a corral under the shadow of tres picos (6093m)	09-33.JPG	09-34.JPG	trekking below nevado tres picos (6093m)
approaching the q'ampa pass (5065m)	panorama from the q'ampa pass (5065m) - nevado puca punta (~5500m) and tres picos (6093m)	nevado ausangate (6384m)	alpacas and the cordillera vilcabamba in the distance
herds of alpacas under ausangate (6384m)