The move south

With continued bad weather forecast and climbers reporting woeful conditions on Ishinca (5530m) yesterday, we have decided to move to southern Peru to the Cordillera Occidental. The high plains generally have more stable conditions and current weather forecasts are not predicting precipitation of any sort. The new base will be Arequipa and the plan will be to attempt Nevado Coropuna (6425m). The move will be by bus and will be from Huaraz to Lima, then Lima to Arequipa with an expected arrival on Tuesday 13 May 14. From Arequipa we will plan the mountain phase (likely to be a 4/5 day expedition).
So more to follow and hopefully the move south will bring better weather and more luck!

Huascaran forecast - snow!

Coropuna forecast - no snow and wind reducing.