Expedition Skills Seminar - Peru

Peru's Cordillera Blanca packs more 18,000- and 19,000-foot peaks into a single drainage than almost anywhere on earth — perfect ground for a skills-first program with three real summit objectives. RMI runs the seminar with a 2:1 climber-to-guide ratio out of a single Ishinca Valley base camp, with mule support on the approach so you carry a daypack to base. Built specifically to prepare climbers for Denali, Aconcagua, and the Himalaya.

Expedition double boots, two hybrid tools, a 0°F bag, and 100L duffels add up fast if you're buying. Our rental shop in Ashford stocks the heavy items maintained season after season by staff who fit RMI climbers every week. Fitted in person if you're in the Pacific Northwest, or shipped to you in time to break in.

This collection mirrors RMI's official equipment list for the Peru Skills Seminar. Every item — two hybrid ice tools, 12-point steel crampons, expedition double boots, transceiver, helmet — has been chosen for sustained instruction days on real glaciers and three summit pushes above 17,000 feet. The double-boot call is deliberate: nights at 14,400 are cold even in Andean winter.