CARSTENSZ PYRAMID 4,884 metres / 16,023 feet  – as one of the world's seven summit become unreasonable to climb

Location        : West Papua Province, Indonesia
Range           : Sudirman Mountains
Coordinates  : 4° 5' 0" S, 137°11' 0" E

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.

CARSTENSZ PYRAMID CLIMB
Climb the highest peak in Oceania and one of the most exotic and challenging world's famous SEVEN SUMMITS; The Carstensz Pyramid 4.884 M at Irian Jaya, Indonesia. And opportunity to spend time in the central highland area visiting the famous Dani people, still very much living in the Stone Age to enjoy their amazing cultures and discover the beauty and wonders of Papua Island.

Carstensz Pyramid is a large limestone, we climb the mountain via its north face which joins the summit ridge before proceeding to the summit. Most of the climb is scrambling, but there are technical sections up to 5.8 in difficulty. We will fix ropes on much of the route to gain the summit ridge, which also direct us on the descent. The summit ridge is knife-edged ridge with some really interesting climbing. You'll need to have some rock climbing experience prior to  coming to Carstensz Pyramid.

Further regarding the climb, there are 2 parts of the climb, first we will climb up thru the north face of Carstensz Wall thru normal route where we have fixed many ropes for the ascend and descend ways. The  climb on the north wall of CP is about 500 M where required jummaring up. Free climb is not recommended in term of safety and using a jummar  is an obligatory. Once we are moving onward on summit ridge, we will once crossing the huge gap on tyrolean to speeds up the ascent to the summit of Carstensz Pyramid (4,884 M).

PERMITS AND ACCESS
Regarding the permits, as you might have noticed that to run the LEGAL Carstensz Pyramid Expedition, there are numbers of different permit we have to gain  through long and complicated procedures; the Reference letter from State Tourism Dept, Security Clearance from ARMY Intelegence, Travelling Permit from POLICE HQ and some other papers. Not only to complete the procedure but these are all we need to ensure if things happen during our expedition from point of security, our government will take full resposibilities.

INDONESIA TREKKING  offers three options of the Carstensz Pyramid Expedition program: trekking from Bilogai Village at Sugapa Region, trekking from Ilaga Village, and by private helicopter from Nabire directly to Danau – Danau Valley Base Camp.

TO BOOK CARSTENSZ PYRAMID CLIMB
The procedure to gain all required permits takes at least 6 weeks. For the application we need every participants' copy passport and photographs 4 x 6 cm size (passport size) with red background, that you can simply send them via email. For the further information, you could inform us your booking  by sending us an email. To confirm your reservation, DEPOSIT PAYMENT OF 2.000 USD / PAX is required to be received by 6 week before departure. The deposit payment is required to secure all permit and as guarantee. While the remaining balance of the expedition cost to be paid lately 2 weeks prior to the trip departure. Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   for the expedition cost.

"Carstensz Peak, March 27th '09. 08:30 AM Papua Local Time (GMT+9)"
Congratulation for :
Simon Jeremy Hall, Rajiv Joshi, James Edward Lancashire,
and Gordon Mackay Clark from United Kingdom ... !!!

"Carstensz Peak, April 25th '09. 06.10 AM Papua Local Time (GMT+9)"
Congratulation for :
Stefano Biffi - Italy : world's seven summits mission accomplished,
Francois Matter - France, and Karel Umlauf - Czech Republic 

 CARSTENSZ NEWS: 

Congratulations for 5 climbers from 'Adventure Peaks', conducted by Diahanne Gilbert; David John Woodman, John Maldon Bates, Peter Ellis, Philip Stuart Long from United Kingdom. For their success on reaching the summit of Carstensz Pyramid, ...yesterday, September 15,  2009 at 07.30 am Papua local time GMT +9. (Sept 16, 2009)

Congratulation for eight climbers from 'Adventure Consultants' conducted by David Hamilton - UK: Russell Brown - UK, Leonardo McLean - Argentina, Tony Hampson - NZ, Pierre Godart - France, Suzanna Derby, Damias Benegas & John Collinson from USA. (August 20, 2009) !!! 

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 CARSTENSZ EXPEDITION SCHEDULE 2010 :

CARSTENSZ PYRAMID EXPEDITION
Duration: 19 DAYS / 18 NIGHTS
START/FINISH: JAKARTA
Grade: VERY CHALLENGING

TREKKING ROUTE  FROM SUGAPA VILLAGE

CARSTENSZ PYRAMID EXPEDITION
Duration: 19 DAYS / 18 NIGHTS
START/FINISH: JAKARTA
Grade: VERY CHALLENGING

TREKKING ROUTE  FROM ILAGA VILLAGE

PROGRAM:
DAY 01 : JAKARTA ARRIVAL
DAY 02 : JAKARTA - TIMIKA
DAY 03 : TIMIKA - ILAGA - TREKKING TO PINAPA VILLAGE  
DAY 04 – 09 : TREKKING DAYS TO CARSTENSZ PYRAMID BASE CAMP
DAY 10 : ACCLIMATIZATION
DAY 11 – 12 : SUMMIT DAYS
DAY 13 – 16 : TREKKING BACK TO ILAGA VILLAGE
DAY 17 : ILAGA - TIMIKA
DAY 18 : TIMIKA - JAKARTA
DAY 19 : JAKARTA DEPARTURE

CARSTENSZ PYRAMID EXPEDITION
Duration: 11 DAYS / 10 NIGHTS
START/FINISH: JAKARTA
Grade: VERY CHALLENGING 

PRIVATE CHARTER HELICOPTER

PROGRAM:
DAY 01 : ARRIVAL IN JAKARTA
DAY 02 : JAKARTA TO BIAK
DAY 03 : BIAK - NABIRE
DAY 04 : NABIRE - DANAU DANAU VALLEY BASE CAMP, 4,4330 M ASL  by Helicopter Transfer
DAY 05 : BASE CAMP, ACLIMATIZATION DAY
DAY 06 – 07 : SUMMIT DAYS
DAY 08 : DANAU DANAU VALLEY BASE CAMP - NABIRE by Helicopter Transfer
DAY 09 : NABIRE - BIAK
DAY 10 : BIAK - JAKARTA
DAY 11 : JAKARTA DEPARTURE

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Leo is Program Director and the man behind the scene for all of Indonesia Trekking Carstensz Pyramid expedition’s success stories. He handle all the permits for example permit from State Tourism Dept, security slearance from ARMY Intelligence, traveling permit from POLICE HQ and others department permits. He also handles all accommodation and assured all transportation like regular flight as well as chartered flight, including helicopter. Leo and his team by turns will join the expedition team and document expedition route while along the way tightened relationship with local governments, head of tribes and porters. Besides the areas in Sudirman Mountains such as Yellow Valley, Danau-Danau Valley, Discovery Lake, Larson Lake and New Zealand Pass, Leo is also familiar with several Papua hinterland areas such as Asmat tribe and Korowai tribe residence. On June, 2009, he lead an expedition from United Kingdom team to Asmat and Korowai area and constructed a helipad for team’s helicopter to landed in the middle of the rainforest.

Ripto Mulyono

He started his career on 1992 and hold more than 25 times summit record. Ripto also the one who guided Rob Hall and Colin Monteath (Adventure Consultant); Tood Burleson and Peter Athans (AAI); Junko Tabei (the first Seven Summiter Woman), Ramon Portilla (the first Seven Summiter from Spain), Dolly Lafeyer (Seven Summiter Woman from USA), Carla Wheelock (the first Latin Seven Summiter Woman); etc. Guiding WWF research program to Ngga Pulu on 1993; guiding TV Climbing documentation "Ice Capped in The Junggle” with Aspire Film Australia on 1993. He reached Aconcagua summit (6.969 m) and Ameghino summit (6.123 m) at Andes Mountains Argentina on 1993. He reached Paldor summit (5.981 m) at Ganesh Himal North-West and Imja Tse/Island Peak (6.189 m) at Khumbu Nepal on 1997. In the same year, Ripto became a member of Indonesia Everest Team 1997 through Northern route, but they were discontinued at Geneva Spurs (7.852 m) because of bad weather.

He has been active in various outdoor activities such as rock climbing and whitewater rafting since he was in college. He had opportunity to become professional whitewater rafting guide in one of local operator in Jakarta before he finally back to engage with rock climbing and mountaineering world. Jemmy who becomes one of rock climbing instructor in his club then started his career in Carstensz Pyramid Expedition on the last 3 year as support team and guide assistant for expedition by helicopter and trekking. The latest record, he had reached Carstensz summit for six times, and he is already entrusted as one of the Carstensz Pyramid main guide.