Cartensz Pyramid Expidition

Carstensz North Face

Puncak Jaya, sometimes called Mount Carstensz or the Carstensz
Pyramid, is the highest mountain on the island of New Guinea, on the
Australia-New Guinea continent and in Oceania. It is the highest point
between the Himalaya and the Andes and the highest island peak in the
world. The peak is located in what is variously called the Sudirman
Range or the Dugunduguoo, in the western central highlands of Papua,
the Indonesian western half of the island, and is the highest peak in
the country.

HISTORY
Puncak Jaya was originally called 'Carstensz Pyramid', after Dutch
explorer Jan Carstensz who first sighted the glaciers on the peak of
the mountain on a rare clear day in 1623 (Carstensz was ridiculed in
Europe when he said he had seen snow near the equator). This name is
still used among mountaineers. Although the snowfield of Puncak Jaya
was reached as early as 1909 by a Dutch explorer, Hendrik A. Lorentz,
the peak was not climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (of Seven Years in Tibet fame)
with three friends, Temple, Kippax and Huizenga.

Base Camp 4,050 m

PERMIT AND ACCESS
As you visit Irian Jaya, you will be requested a police permit or in
bahasa "Surat Jalan / Travelling Permit". Please provide 2
photographs, 4 x 6 size, with red background and a copy of passport
when you register the expedition.

Our Expedition Trip offers two route options of the Carstensz Pyramid
Expedition program: first, trekking route cross rainforest from Sugapa/
Bilogai and second, by private helicopter from Nabire directly to Base
Camp Danau - Danau valley.

Price start from USD11.500 by helicopter and Start from USD7500 via
Sugafa Route,
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