Andes Website : Climbing, Skiing, Trekking and Guidebooks in South America

CLIMBING, SKIING AND TREKKING HOLIDAYS IN THE ANDES & GUIDEBOOKS

Site last updated on Friday 16th May 2008.  Our early booking discount of £100 per person on our winter 2009 trips expires on the  31st May 2008. 

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  We are highly recommended by past customers. Have a look at our latest Customer Satisfaction survey for further details.

Off-piste snowboarding at Chillan, southern Chile.

Off-piste snowboarding at Chillan, southern Chile. Our Chilean Skiing Self-drive holidays can include this resort. Prices for a car rental package and pre-paid hotel accommodation start from £595 per person. Flights to Santiago cost from £700.  These holidays can be as along or as short as you want them to be and visit up to five different resorts in Chile.

The line of the rock route "K2" on the Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The line of the rock route "K2" on the Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sign up for one of the last few spaces on our Brazilian Climber and Scrambler and you can see the sights in Rio, spend time on the beach, climb K2 and surprise some Japanese tourists all in one day..!

We are highly recommended by past customers. Have a look at our latest Customer Satisfaction survey for further details.

Treks, Holidays and Expeditions

This site has information about our expeditions, skiing holidays and guidebooks and also lots of free information about the Andes mountains. 

We are highly recommended by past customers. Have a look at our Customer Satisfaction page for further details. Not surprisingly we have very high repeat booking rates and referral booking rates and run a lot of private itineraries. That's why we don't advertise much.

For general information about who we are, why our trips are different to the rest, where we are based and what we do see our general information page.


Holiday and Expedition Calendar A full calendar of all our scheduled expeditions.

Expeditions & Explorations

Scheduled expeditions to more remote areas, first ascents etc. We specialise in these more interesting trips that no other companies run.
Skiing Holidays and Expeditions Scheduled ski touring expeditions and downhill ski or snowboard holidays.
Rock Climbing Holidays and expeditions on the rock. 
Tailor Made & Private Itineraries   Treks and expeditions that are not currently scheduled but which we can run for private groups etc.
Merchandise Items available for purchase including kit-bags and T-shirts
Booking Information on how to book a holiday or expedition, plus our booking form

General information about 'Andes'    

General information about our adventure holiday business.  Private itineraries, accommodation, customer satisfaction, equipment, financial security, leaders, booking, etc.

We are highly recommended by past customers. Have a look at our latest Customer Satisfaction survey for further details.

Free Information Files

Factfile on the Andes This link takes you to the index page for a large factfile of information on travel, trekking, skiing and climbing in the Andes.
Ski Information A big and expanded file of information about skiing in the Andes.
Rock Climbing in South America A new file of rock climbing information.
Peaks of the Andes A complete list in alphabetical order of the 300+ peaks of the Andes featured on this website, with photos and information about each and every peak 
6000m peak list    A complete list of the one hundred and two 6000m peaks of the Andes, with photos and information about each and every peak  Revised and extended January 2005
5000m peak list     A complete list of the 753  5000-5999m peaks of the Andes. Photos and information for many of these peaks.
Patagonian Peaks An extensive list of the main peaks of the Patagonian Andes.
Photo Galleries Revised and improved - bigger pictures
Links Page Links to other sites of interest.

We are highly recommended by past customers. Have a look at our latest Customer Satisfaction survey for further details.

Guidebooks, Maps & Photos

Andes Guidebooks   Details of the guidebooks we publish - 'The Andes - A Guide for Climbers' and 'The Andes - A Trekking Guide' and their French editions. The English edition of "A Guide for Climbers" was updated in 2005.  New French and Spanish editions of the climbing guidebook  were published in  2007.

Guidebook and Map Library    Information about our extensive guidebook and map library

The Andes - A Guide for Climbers - 3rd Edition

Los Andes - Guia para Escaladores

The Andes - A Trekking Guide. 2001


We are highly recommended by past customers. Have a look at our latest Customer Satisfaction survey for further details.

Contact Details

For further details of our treks and expeditions, more information on the mountains of South America or to purchase our guidebook please contact us at

 john@andes.org.uk

or by phone 01556 503929 from the UK,  00 44 1556 503929  from elsewhere

or you are welcome to write or visit us at

Andes, 37a St. Andrew Street, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, DG7 1EN, SCOTLAND

Our office is located in the middle of the town of Castle Douglas, which lies in Galloway about half-way between the towns of Kirkcudbright and Dumfries.

If you experience any problems with this website please let us know using our e-mail address.

If you experience any problems with this website (even if it's just a missing picture or missing link) or with the e-mail address please let us know using the above numbers or the alternate email address.

This is a picture of our email address  (to avoid the spammers running robots to detect it).

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This website, including all photos (unless otherwise credited), maps, lists, diagrams and text © 1997-2008 John Biggar/Andes.  Unauthorised reproduction prohibited. If you wish to use any material from this site please contact us for permission first, it will usually be granted for non-commercial use providing you give full credit and link directly back to our site.

Our 2008 sidebar is a schematic map of the Andes.

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