{"id":3355,"date":"2024-03-15T08:35:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T08:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2024-03-15T08:41:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T08:41:22","slug":"cual-volcan-es-mas-duro-el-iztaccihuatl-o-el-pico-de-orizaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/2024\/03\/15\/cual-volcan-es-mas-duro-el-iztaccihuatl-o-el-pico-de-orizaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Which volcano is harder, Iztaccihuatl or Pico de Orizaba?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let's start with the basic measurements. In both cases we will base ourselves on the normal route; the Portillos route on Iztaccihuatl and the north face route on Pico de Orizaba.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Iztacc\u00edhuatl<\/strong> measures 5,220 meters, and is usually climbed from approximately 3,970 meters from La Joyita, where the main parking lot is located. The vertical drop is, therefore, about 1,250 vertical meters.<\/strong> The estimated distance is fourteen kilometers, seven uphill and seven downhill.<\/p>

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The Pico de Orizaba<\/strong> measures 5,636 meters; the ascent usually starts from the Refugio de Piedra Grande, at 4,240 meters. La ganancia vertical es de unos 1,396metros.<\/strong> The vertical gain is about 1,396 meters. The total distance covered is also about fourteen kilometers.<\/p>

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The Pico de Orizaba<\/strong> Orizaba is objectively harder,<\/strong>as it requires overcoming a greater vertical gain at a higher altitude. In addition, the last five hundred meters of the Jamapa Glacier are inevitably uphill.<\/strong> As veteran Joaqu\u00edn Canchola of Tlachichuca rightly says, \"'El Pico is a madriza!\" (climbing Pico is like taking a beating!).<\/p>

However, to assess the overall difficulty or hardness, another fundamental factor arises: which descent is harder? After all, every mountain must be descended,<\/strong> once the summit has been reached.<\/p>

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On the other, on Iztaccihuatl, one must traverse the Ayoloco Glacier on a combination<\/strong> of ascending, descending, and even horizontal terrain (the well-known \"Belly\" of the glacier).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The answer is debatable, but many of us maintain that Pico de Orizaba is easier to descend than Iztaccihuatl.<\/strong> Why? Because the descent is a steady downhill, over relatively easy terrain, while Iztaccihuatl requires several partial ascents, such as Monte de Venus or La Rodilla, and semi-technical terrain around the Cruz de Guadalajara (4,900 meters). In general, the descent of Pico was faster and less strenuous<\/strong> than that of Mujer Blanca.<\/p>

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In addition, there are other factors to take into account. For example, the beginning of the Portillos route route is less steep<\/strong> than its equivalent on the Pico, which allows us to dose the effort. The state of the terrain,<\/strong> depending on the weather, is another factor that can make the ascent and descent of El Laberinto tremendously easy or highly complicated.<\/p>

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And you, fellow mountaineer, what do you think? Which is harder for you, Iztaccihuatl or Pico de Orizaba?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vamos a comenzar por las mediciones b\u00e1sicas. En ambos casos nos basaremos en la ruta normal; la de los Portillos, en el Iztacc\u00edhuatl, y la de la cara norte, en el Pico de Orizaba. El Iztacc\u00edhuatl mide 5,220 metros, y se asciende habitualmente desde los aproximadamente 3,970 metros de La Joyita, donde se encuentra el […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,33,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consejos","category-expediciones","category-pico-de-orizaba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advenculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}