More than fifty years of mountaineering in one family. Today we operate both Aconcagua valleys with our own structure: 130 mules, base camps in Horcones and Vacas, high-altitude domes and a team that comes back every season.
Our best legacy is welcoming you to the mountain as if it were your home.
You climb with our guides, sleep in our camps and eat our food. Small groups, progressive acclimatisation and a programme that adjusts to how each person responds at altitude.
You climb with your own guide, with your group or on your own. We handle the operation on the mountain: mules, base camp, domes in the high camps and permit management. No climbing guide, and nobody explaining how you have to climb your mountain.
There is no cart and no automatic booking, and it isn't for lack of technology: an Aconcagua expedition is not bought like a plane ticket. Tell us what you have in mind and we'll put the proposal together by hand. We answer the same day.
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Our expeditions and treks
Every departure runs on the same structure: our camps, our mules, our people.
Entry via the Horcones · Base camp Plaza de Mulas, 4.350 m · Plaza Canadá, Nido de Cóndores, Berlín / Cólera
The classic line to the roof of the Americas through the Horcones Valley, with the best acclimatization profile and all the infrastructure on the mountain.
Entry via the Vacas · Base camp Plaza Argentina, 4.190 m · Exit via Horcones
The complete traverse: in through the Vacas Valley, summit via the Polish traverse and out through Horcones. The whole mountain in a single trip.
Entry via the Vacas · Base camp Plaza Argentina, 4.190 m · Glaciar de los Polacos
Polish Direct and False Polish Glacier: private, tailor-made trips for rope teams with technical experience looking for a quieter line.
Entry via the Horcones · Base camp Plaza Francia, 4.200 m · Al pie de la Pared Sur
Three days up the Horcones Valley to the viewpoint at the foot of the South Face, one of the most imposing rock and ice walls on the planet.
Entry via the Horcones · Base camp Plaza de Mulas, 4.350 m · Dos noches en domo
Five days to Aconcagua's base camp, by way of the South Face viewpoint.
Cordillera de Malargüe · Sitio del accidente del Fairchild uruguayo, 1972
Three days in the Malargüe range to the site where the Uruguayan Fairchild crashed in 1972. A mountain trek carrying enormous historical weight.
Agencies and mountain guides who build their Aconcagua expeditions on our logistics in the valley and at the camps.
For agencies, companies and guides
You bring the group and the guide. We put up the mountain: mules for the cargo, base camp with full board, high-altitude domes, portering and the permit handled. One supplier, one contact, zero friction.
Every package states exactly what it includes. No grey areas, no fine print, no reinterpretations halfway through the season. We'd rather you know in advance what you are paying for than sell you flexibility and charge you for it later, at base camp, when you can no longer choose.
You don't pay for what you won't use. Mules, base camp with full board, toilets, WiFi and permit management. For self-sufficient teams that handle themselves in the city and in the high camps.
Acclimatisation starts before the Park gate. Everything in Basic plus private transfers, pre-expedition hotel, a night at altitude and showers at base camp.
The weather doesn't charge you by the day. Everything in Full plus a shared dome in the high camps with unlimited nights: the group stays up as long as the window demands.
How we work
The opposite of how it's done now. First we ask about your dates, your experience and how your group is doing; only then do we send numbers. You are answered by the person who will coordinate your expedition from Mendoza, not by a form.
We pick you up at the airport and drop you at the Park gate. Your gear stays in our depot at Puente del Inca, less than 2 km from the entrance, where it is made up into loads and goes up by mule to base camp. That depot is the hinge between the Mendoza office and the mountain: everything going up and everything coming down passes through it.
Our own infrastructure at Confluencia, Plaza de Mulas and Plaza Argentina, and portering between camps to spread the loads and reach summit day in one piece. If the mountain forces a change of plan, the plan changes.
Our network links Mendoza, Puente del Inca, the base camps and the high-altitude domes. Daily weather report, immediate response and a closing report on the way down. In twenty-five seasons we have never lost track of where one of our groups is.
Base camp
Nancy runs it, one of the people with the most seasons at Plaza de Mulas: fresh bread in the morning, pasta and stews at night, dessert always, and menus for vegetarians, vegans and coeliacs. On an eighteen-day expedition, the quality of the rest and the food is what separates enduring from recovering. That's why we don't outsource the kitchen.
It is a house that also has what the mountain demands: our own domes with beds and dining room, toilets, hot showers, WiFi, generators, a radio network to Mendoza, health protocol and waste management to Park regulations. Both things at once.
Since 2001
In 2001 Eduardo Raggio opened the first bar on Aconcagua at Plaza de Mulas. Twenty-five seasons later it is still a compulsory stop for anyone climbing the Normal Route.
You arrive tired and you sit down. From there on, the mountain gets talked about.
In numbers
We are not middlemen. Every mule, every dome and every person you'll see on the mountain works for us.
Responsible operation
Muleteers, porters and camp staff hired on formal terms, with gear provided and loads within established limits. Much of our team comes back season after season.
Everything that goes in comes out: waste carried down by mule, effluent managed to Park protocol and camps struck without leaving a trace.
We work with suppliers from Mendoza, Uspallata and Penitentes. The expedition has to leave value in the valley, not only in the city.
Controlled loads per mule, rest respected between trips and veterinary checks on all 130. Luis, our head muleteer, runs it, with one of the best animal welfare records in the Park. The oldest trade on Aconcagua, applied to the care of the animal and not only to the load.
What they say
Verified reviews from climbers who went up with us.
“It was truly a pleasure to meet the Pared Sur TEAM. The warmth with which they look after you, the delicacies they prepare. Everything EXCELLENT! See you soon, but via Plaza Argentina. Thanks for EVERYTHING!”
“An incredible place: the great attitude of Nancy and the guys who do the porter work, the best service you can find on Aconcagua, and the quality of its people!”
“Everything excellent: they make the hardships of the adventure much easier to get through. I want to highlight the excellent care at “La Yeya” and Tincho’s camps at Confluencia, and from Lucas (total genius) and Nancy at Plaza de Mulas. Super happy and grateful!”
“Very good hospitality at the refuges in Plaza de Mulas and Confluencia. Thanks to Nancy, Yeya and all the staff. The domes at Nido and Berlin were very useful. There is always room for improvement, but I recommend it.”
“Excellent all around, from handling the Aconcagua Park entry permit to sorting out any question or problem. Also excellent was the attention from Román in the city and from Luis at Puente del Inca.”
“Excellent service both at Confluencia and at Plaza de Mulas 🙌”
“We worked with Pared Sur two years in a row. Last year we climbed Aconcagua from Plaza Argentina and this year from Plaza de Mulas. On both occasions we were very satisfied with the company’s services.”
“We used Pared Sur's services for the third time and they always provide great service. This year we summited as a group. At the end of the expedition they arranged the mules and private transport for the next day, very convenient.”
Before you start
Certifications and endorsements
Asociación Argentina de Guías de Montaña
Union of International Mountain Leader Associations
Subcomisión de Nivología · AAGMHow we work, in four words.
Let's start
Tell us when you plan to enter the Park and who you're coming with. We answer the same day, with a concrete proposal and a person with a name on the other end. The way it used to be done, and the way we still do it.
