The cordillera blanca Located in the department of Ancash, the Mountain range Blanca is considered the Peruvian capital of the andinismo, it's located to the oriental side of the valley of the river Santa, in the Alley of Huaylas.
The Mountain range Blanca this fully included inside the Huascaran National Park and it counts with 50 mountains that it has more than enough they pass the 5,700m, too with 269 lagoons and 41 Rivers, that means that it has the abundance snowed bigger of summits and with the highest and beautiful in the country..
Among their more famous summits they are: Huascarán (6.768 msnm); Huandoy, with three summits, all on the 6.000 msnm; Chopicalqui (6.354 msnm); Chacraraju (6.112 msnm); Alpamayo (5.947 msnm) and Copa (6.118 msnm).
Among the advantages that it offers this mountain range they figure the climate (ideal for the escalade between May and October) and the marked accessibility of their mountains that allows to culminate the ascension of several summits at one time short.
There is a quantity of mountains to climb - from as more simple as option for acclimatization for climbs in the valley of the Ishinca - Urus (5495m), Ishinca (5530m) Tocllaraju (6,034m) until the face South of the Huascaran (6769m) and the North (6654m), until the mountains of technical ascension as the Alpamayo (5947m) and chacraraju (6112m).