COTOPAXI SUMMIT
Day 1.- We will review the equipment with your guide at the offices in Quito, 10:30 a.m. We will go south to the town of Machachi for lunch, then with our 4x4 vehicle we will arrive at the parking lot 4600m (15091.86 feet), here we put most of the equipment so that you do not carry everything to the refuge, we walk 45min to the José Rivas Refuge at 4800m (15748.03 feet), in the afternoon we will have a talk and glacier school to handle equipment, depending on the weather, dinner and rest.
Day 2.- In the early hours of the second day 00:30 am, we will have a cup of tea and our suitcases with the necessary and we will go to the summit attempt between 7 to 8 hours walking on ice, very slowly, to reach the sunrise between 6 to 7 am return to the refuge, breakfast, return to Quito at 14:00 p.m.
We work in ropes of 2 hikers 1 guide, if one of the hikers makes the decision to go down without reaching the summit for whatever reason, the entire group returns and if the group is larger and we have more guides, a guide goes down and the others continue to climb.
