Mountain description
Artesonraju is a 6,025-metre snow-and-ice pyramid in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru, within Huascaran National Park. Its near-perfect symmetrical summit is widely believed to have inspired the Paramount Pictures logo. It is a serious mountaineering objective reached from the village of Cashapampa, while trekkers admire it from the Santa Cruz and Alpamayo circuits. The dry climbing season runs from May to September.
Key facts
Artesonraju (6,025m) is in Áncash Department, in the Cordillera Blanca.
- Region
- Áncash Department
- Mountain range
- Cordillera Blanca
- Prominence
- 549m
- Nearest higher peak
- Chacraraju · 6,108m, 5.1km
- Nearest hut
- Refugio Perú · 4,660m, 8.6km, staffed
- Lakes nearby
- Laguna Arteson Bajo (1.9km), Laguna Artesoncocha (2.6km), Laguna Raju (2.6km)
- Trailhead
- 2.5km
- Nearest village
- Cashapampa · 16km
