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South America Tours - Degrees of Difficulty

Different levels of the tours in terms of their physical stress

 
 

Degrees of Difficulty

 

Level A:

Your priority in choosing your tour is getting to know the people and the country. You enjoy travelling on roads and paths that are in good condition and you are not fond of hiking in difficult heights. The time you have to physically prepare for your trip is very limited. Your sport activities are also very limited and you usually do not hike much or at all. Your focus while on a tour is to relax.

 


Level B:

You prefer travelling on roads and paths that are in good condition but you do not have a problem dealing with a few obstacles while travelling on a tour that is based on nature and cultural things. You furthermore do not have any problems with an eight hour day trip where you might hike 1.000 m. You do not mind longer trips on roads without proper pavement and travelling on roads that can be in bad condition. You furthermore have time to prepare for your trip and its demands.

 


Level C:

You do not mind hiking difficult routes which do not have proper pavement. You had enough time at home to prepare well for the physical challenge that you will face on such a tour. You are pysically and mentally in the right condition to deal with different terrains and hights up to 1.000 m when we take you on an eight hour day trip. This includes very steep ways up as well as down and you must not be afraid of heights.

 


Level D:

Challenging tours on routes with no pavement situated in more than 5.000 m height are exiting for you and you enjoy hiking on step ways up and down-in fact all this is thrilling to you!

 


Level E:

Their physical and psychological condition is very good, they practice regularly sport and have already sufficiently experience with every fastidious mountain migrations, which can include over 1.500 elevator meters as daily performance. Besides they are team able and it provides them fun to achieve the respective daily objective together with the other route users. Since they will possibly move in alpinem high mountains, they are familiar also with the use of the equipment necessary for it such as pickle, rope, ice screw as well as to the rise at the fixed rope already accustomed, in order to master these routes in the frontier.

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