Parva del Inca
- Lieu : Au-dessus de Laguna del Inca
- Orientation : Sud-Est
- Hauteur : 1780m
- Matériel : Probably mandatory year-round to bring your ice climbing kit and a way to protect / rappel the bottleneck if you can't jump.
- Posé : The whole valley is a good LZ. Typical Andean high winds as the day progresses.
- Première : Trevor Bockstahler, 20.01.24
Acces: 12h+
Exit Coordonnées GPS: -32.762739, -70.168037
Access via Hwy-60. I parked at the top of this dirt road in poor condition: -32.8577206, -70.1732209 Note: If coming from Chile, you can tell the toll gate officer you're going to Andean Juncal and you don't have to pay the fee.
To base camp: The hiking route is more or less on FatMap. But start on hikers right of the river and stay there (ignore The Andes Handbook in this regard). Horses walk the trail, so there are at times many paths that lead in the same direction. This took me a very mellow 6hrs to get roughly here: -32.7760405, -70.1678706
To the summit: It took 2hrs for the first half to the first climbing section, and took 5hrs to get through the glacier snow field penitentes.
https://www.andeshandbook.org/montanismo/cerro/289/Parva_del_Inca/descripcion The route follows this until the bottleneck.
The ridge to get out to the exit is a knife edge, and there very is little room to rig up. I left a 6mm rope with butterflies to hang on to and clip into for safety.
| Deniv | Avancée | Commentaire |
|---|---|---|
| 90m | 15m | |
| 98m | 21m | |
| 118m | 33m | |
| 128m | 40m | |
| 136m | 52m | |
| 427m | 163m |
