Alpamayo ´´the Most Beautiful Mountain in the World´´

Caraz, Ancash, Peru

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The Alpamayo (Quechua name: Shuyturahu) is a snowy mountain in the Andes mountain range that reaches an altitude of 5,947 meters above sea level.

The nevado got its current name from the village of Alpamayo (Quechua Allpamayu: allpa = land; mayu = river), while its local name in Ancashino Quechua is Shuyturahu (shuytu = thin and long, pyramid; rahu = nevado). [







Access is from the city of Caraz at 2,250m above sea level (467km from Lima), at the northern end of Callejón de Huaylas (Huaylas, Ancash), via a 28km affirmed road, to the town of Cashapampa 2900m. From here, it is 22km along the Quebrada Santa Cruz, to the Quisuarpampa sector 4,000 meters above sea level, where you take the detour to the north, ascending through the Quebrada Arhuaycocha, to the Base Camp 4,300 meters above sea level.







It is one of the most striking peaks of the Cordillera Blanca in the Peruvian Andes and was declared by the magazine Alpinismus (May 1966) as ´´The Most Beautiful Mountain in the World´´, during the Munich Scenic Photography Contest in 1966.
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