{"id":12579,"date":"2026-09-03T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sakwinetravel.com\/?p=12579"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:37:45","slug":"how-hard-is-it-to-climb-aconcagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakwinetravel.com\/es\/blog\/how-hard-is-it-to-climb-aconcagua\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 tan dif\u00edcil es escalar el Aconcagua? Los seis niveles, clasificados"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The honest answer is that “climbing Aconcagua” describes six different trips, and they are not equally hard. One of them is a day walk. One of them takes three weeks and asks for prior experience above 4,500 metres. Almost everything written about the difficulty of this mountain answers only for the last one, because almost everyone writing about it only sells that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here is the graded version: what each level of the mountain actually demands, how high it takes you, and where Aconcagua sits against the peaks people compare it to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The six levels of Aconcagua, graded<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What you are doing<\/th>Type<\/th>How long<\/th>Level<\/th>Summit attempt<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Viewpoint from the road<\/td>Excursion<\/td>1 day<\/td>Easy<\/strong><\/td>No<\/td><\/tr>
Confluencia base camp hike<\/td>Day trek<\/td>1 day<\/td>Easy \/ Moderate<\/strong><\/td>No<\/td><\/tr>
Plaza Francia and the South Wall<\/td>Trekking<\/td>3 days<\/td>Moderate<\/strong><\/td>No<\/td><\/tr>
Plaza Francia + Plaza de Mulas<\/td>Trekking<\/td>7 days<\/td>Intermediate<\/strong><\/td>No \u2014 5,000 m maximum<\/td><\/tr>
Summit by the Normal Route<\/td>Expedition<\/td>21 days<\/td>Advanced<\/strong><\/td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>
Summit by the 360 circuit<\/td>Expedition<\/td>By arrangement<\/td>Advanced<\/strong><\/td>Yes<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
The grading is our own, from the programmes we run. Every level below the summit is a walk rather than a climb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The jump that matters is between the seven-day trek and the summit expedition. Everything up to 5,000 metres is a question of fitness and patience. Above that it becomes a question of how your body handles altitude, and that is not something you can train into certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n

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