Climbing Iztaccihuatl guided tours
Full expeditions from Puebla or Mexico City
Mountain guides, transport, accommodation… all you need
Iztaccihutal, also known as Izta or Mujer Dormida (sleeping lady), with its 5220m (17,130 ft) is the third highest mountain in Mexico. It consists of six craters what make it difficult to realize that you are on a huge volcano while climbing it. Nevertheless, its peculiar forms and the proximity of the imposing Popocatepetl volcano or Popo, which is active and always smoking, turns its climb into any photographer’s delight.
Our Service:
Local Agency: Cheaper, qualified guides with over 100 summits, and a real Mexican experience while with us.
Gear: Get all you need for the climb directly with us. All technical gear INCLUDED!! Please check the link below to find out gear requirements.
Iztaccihuatl Necessary gear
Transport: All ground transport from México or Puebla Cities to Pico de Orizaba
Accommodation: All accommodation during your climbing trip.
Meals: All food and purified water in the mountains.
Staff: Professional local and international guides, camp assistants, cook, etc.
Insurance: mountaineering insurance for summit days.
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The Climb
Climbing Iztaccihuatl can be split into two days or if you are in good conditions just in one. Also, the route, called “Los Portillos” has also two main sections:
The first section goes from the car park “La Joya” (3.900 m – 12.800 ft) to the hut named “de los Cien”. The way to the hut goes sort of edging from the Mexico state valley side to the Puebla state valley side and back to Mexico side and so on. Every time we go from one side to the other it’s called “Portillo”. The last one is the fourth Portillo just before a short descent to the hut.
The second section begins with the hardest part of the climb, from the hut to the “knees” at 5.000 m (16.400ft). After a while we reach the Paza Glacier (Belly) and not long after we find ourselves standing on the summit just above the “Pecho” Glacier (Breast)
To take into consideration
To summit Iztaccihuatl you must be in a good physical condition and your body acclimatization process must be properly carried out.
Depending on your experience, your acclimatization, your time, etc. we suggest the best program scheldule for you to maximeze your summit options.
Also, if you have doubts about your level of fitness, we can send a personalized training program designed to climb mexican volcanoes so that you don’t suffer from physical exhaustion on summit day.
We operate locally and with full time profesional guides, what means that prices are always lower than in your home country.
About our climbing team
We are a locally run business with both local and international guides, all resident in Mexico and therefore, we have climb this mountains hundreds of times. Of course when not working we enjoy travelling to other countries to challenge ourselves both in mountaineering and rock climbing, some of our experience has been forged in South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
In addition, in case our field experience is not enough, our guides have the following international backing in knowledge and practices in high mountains:
- Training in Mountaineering and Mountain Rescue techniques taught by instructors from the AGMP (Mountain Guides Association of Peru) belonging to and with UIAGM standards (International Union of Mountain Guides Associations)
- International First Aid Certification in remote places given by ECSI (Emergency Care & Safty Institue)
– We all speak English and Spanish. Some even Fench.
There is no official Mountaineering Certifications in Mexico, so we do our best to catch up with international standards.
