Question by Ishbel_anne: How about the Huascaran National Park, can you help me?
My brother will soon be traveling to Peru and he is much into Mountain Climbing, he wants this to be in Huaraz, Peru. Any info you may provide as to how to get there, where to hire the services, which are the highest mountains, daily living cost and lodging. He also requires info on White Waters kayaking with high difficulty as he is well experienced.
Your help will be highly appreciated.

Thank you

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Answer by reggae_music_lover
The Huascaran National Park was established on July, 1st 1975, through Law (D.S.) N 0622-75-AG. UNESCO recognized it as Natural Inheritance of the Humanity in 1985 and as a center of the Reserve of Biosphere in 1977. This park includes the Cordillera Blanca, the highest Tropical chain of mountains in the world, and is located in the department of Ancash, provinces of Huaylas, Yungay, Carhuaz, Huaraz, Recuay, Bolognesi, Pomabamba, Huari, Mariscal Luzuriaga and Asunción. It has a surface of 340,000 hectares.

Dry season is April to November.

The highest snow-covered mountain is here (whose name is also Huascarán and is 6,768 meters tall).

CORDILLERA BLANCA
Natural Heritage of Peru
Established in 1975, the Parque Nacional Huascarán contains all the Cordillera Blanca (with the exception of the distant Nevado Champará in its extreme north), the highest range of the Peruvian Andes and the highest range in the world’s tropical zone. Its total area is approximately 1300 square miles (340,000 hectares), roughly 110 miles (180 km) north-south, and an average of only 12 miles (20 kin) east-west. Within its boundaries are thirty mountains above 6000 meters (19686 ft) above sea level (fifteen are above 20,000 feet, 6096 meters), crowned by Nevado Huascarán itself at 22205 feet (6768 m). (“Nevado” means snow-covered peak.) There are another thirty peaks above 18500 feet (5640 in), as well as hundreds of glacial lakes, rivers, and waterfalls, and an abundance of flora and fauna.

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