Carstensz Pyramid

Flight Information

The total num­ber of days for your trip includes all trav­el to and from your des­ti­na­tion, with some excep­tions. Please call our office to con­firm that your flight itin­er­ary is cor­rect. For this trip you will need to arrive in Den­pasar, Bali in Indone­sia. The cap­i­tal city, Den­pasar, is locat­ed on the east coast of the Island of Bali and is known for its white sandy beach­es and offers a great stopover on the way to Carsten­sz or on your return home. From Den­pasar you will fly to Timika.

This trip neces­si­tates an overnight flight from the U.S. begin­ning on day 1 of the itin­er­ary. You will cross the date­line in mid-flight to Asia thus los­ing a day. Don’t wor­ry, you’ll make it up on the way home. Your return flight will take 2 days to arrive back home. Book your return flight to leave Timi­ka to Den­pasar, Indone­sia on day 17 and on to your home city. 

Please con­tact our office for any help need­ed with flight schedule.

Carstensz Pyramid Day by Day

Day 1

TRAV­EL

Trav­el to Den­pasar, Bali.

Day 2

DEN­PASAR

Moun­tain Mad­ness staff will meet you at the air­port. You will trans­fer to your hotel

Day 3

DEN­PASAR

We will spend Day 3 hav­ing a team meet­ings and doing equip­ment checks in prepa­ra­tion for our ear­ly morn­ing flight to Papua. We wrap up last minute paper­work and secure our per­mit with the Indone­sian gov­ern­ment. Wel­come din­ner with the team.

Day 4

PAPUA

We fly to West Papua and trans­fer to our hotel. Flights are gen­er­al­ly ear­ly morn­ing which gives us the rest of the day to pre­pare for our morn­ing heli­copter flight to base camp.

Day 5

CARSTEN­SZ BASE CAMP

We’ll get an ear­ly start, depend­ing on weath­er, for the heli­copter flight to base camp.

Day 6

CARSTEN­SZ BASE CAMP

Acclima­ti­za­tion. Spend the day at base camp accli­ma­tiz­ing to the alti­tude and prepar­ing for the sum­mit climb.

Day 7

SUM­MIT PUSH

We’re off to the sum­mit! The route is rel­a­tive­ly straight­for­ward and fol­lows a line up the north face. After scram­bling approx­i­mate­ly 1,640 feet / 500 meters over most­ly sol­id rock we will break out on the sum­mit ridge where lines will be fixed in prepa­ra­tion for our descent. Our route here fol­lows the ridge crest with grand expo­sure along the way. We pass four small notch­es as we rap­pel and use ascen­ders to nego­ti­ate these tricky sec­tions. Our descent entails mul­ti­ple rap­pels and scram­bling. We will be on good, clean rock that pro­vides excel­lent fric­tion even in wet weath­er. This will be a long, dif­fi­cult day of 12 – 18 hours roundtrip.

Day 8-10

EXTRA WEATH­ER DAYS

These extra days are to allow for a bet­ter weath­er win­dow or extra days for acclima­ti­za­tion if needed.

Day 11

TIMI­KA

Carsten­sz base­camp to Timi­ka. Morn­ing heli­copter flight to Timi­ka. Hotel in Timika

Day 12

DEN­PASAR

We fly back to Den­pasar, Bali and our hotel where we will cel­e­brate our expedition. 

Day 13

FLY HOME

Heli­copter flights are sub­ject to weath­er delays, some­times last­ing sev­er­al days. We allow con­tin­gency days to accom­mo­date delays. It is strong­ly advised that you allow a delay of up to one week should an extend­ed delay occur.

Note on Itin­er­ary: Although we do our very best to fol­low the sched­ule list­ed, this itin­er­ary is sub­ject to change due to inclement weath­er, unsafe route con­di­tions, or oth­er rea­sons beyond our con­trol and in the guide’s best judgement.