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Huaraz & the Cordilleras
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Why Go?
Ground zero for outdoor adventure worship in Peru, the Cordilleras are one of the pre-em-
inent hiking, trekking and backpacking spots in South America. Every which way you
throw your gaze, perennially glaciered white peaks razor their way through expansive
mantles of lime-green valleys. In the recesses of these prodigious giants huddle scores of
pristine jade lakes, ice caves and torrid springs. The Cordillera Blanca is the highest moun-
tain range in the world outside the Himalayas, and its 18 ostentatious summits of more than
6000m will not let you forget it for a second.
