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Hike · Llámac

Cordillera Huayhuash Circuit

Distance
61.3 mi
Vertical
16,145 ft
Summit
16,483 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

The Cordillera Huayhuash Circuit is regularly called one of the finest mountain treks on earth — a remote, high loop around a compact, savagely beautiful range south of the Cordillera Blanca, the range made famous by Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void. Most parties take eight to…

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Dawn sets the Huayhuash summits ablaze above a mirror-still tarn
Dibumartinez23 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Turquoise glacial lakes pool beneath the ice wall at Jahuacocha
Rafael Roque Chirinos · CC BY-SA 4.0
The fluted south face of Yerupajá, the range's crowning summit
Jeremyfrimer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nevado Carnicero rides a sea of cloud in the thin morning air
Jeremyfrimer · CC BY-SA 3.0

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