Death in Misti volcano

Death in Misti volcano!

Tour guide Cristian Enriquez Garcia was let to die by Travel Agency QUECHUA EXPLORING HIGH MOUNTAINS SRL.

Ivan Jimenez Guzmán and Norma Jimenez Guzmán are responsible of the death of tour guide!

Informality is the main problem in Arequipa. The Colca Specialist denounced the presence of informal mountainclimbing guides and authorities do nothing in order to solve the problem.

Cristian Enriquez Garcia was a profesional tour guide who two months ago before his death he finished his studies and he graduated as an oficial tour guide in San Agustin University in Arequipa.

Cristian comes from a family with limited economical resources so since he was a young boy he worked very hard doing different things in order to collect some money for his studies.

Her had a strong passion for the mountains and nature and he worked several times as a porter for mountainclimbing groups in Arequipa.

Quechua Exploring High Mountains SRL is a travel agency dedicated to mountainclimbing and outdoors activities in Arequipa. Its owner is TEMISTOCLES IVAN JIMENEZ GUZMAN who is a profesional mountainclimbing guide in Arequipa.

Quechua Exploring High Mountains Travel Agency is very well known because it has the monopoly of mountainclimbing in Arequipa and it has turned into the main mountainclimbing operator in our city.

The owner of this travel agency offers strong commisions to all the travel agencies that endorse their clients to his travel agency and their clients are travel agencies like Colonial Tours, Acuarius Travel among others.

Because of this situation and because of the free market the prices of the mountainclimbing tours are very low so the owners of different travel agencies like QUECHUA EXPLORING HEIGHTS SRL don´t hire profesional mountainclimbing guides but youngsters who are trying to make it in this society. These corrupted travel agencies hire students who are easy to exploit the way they want without insurance without a salary,people who cannot complain ,people who work in very poor conditions because they need the money in order to survive.

Travel agencies like this don´t hire profesional mountainclimbers because they are expensive for them. How can be possible that a bottle of good pisco is more expensive than a mountainclimbing tour to Misti volcano? These unconciouss travel agencies don´t care about the safety of their clients.

Quechua Exploring High Mountains  SRL according to the investigations done by the police they had several accidents on Misti Volcano and this time the situation became worst because the guide they hired died on the mountain.

Cristian Enriquez according to the investigations was a profesional conventional tour guide but he was not a profesional mountainclimbing guide. Quechua Exploring high mountains sent him to the volcano by force because according to the Cristian´s mom he received a phone call of the travel agency and he was told he head to climb the volcano with 2 spanish tourists.

Cristian told them they couldn´t go because he had a a problem with the leg ligaments and Norma Jimenez sister of Ivan Jimenez said If you don´t go you are fired! And now we see the results.

According to the reports Cristian was found by ROY ROMERO PORTUGAL another person WHO IS NOT A PROFESSIONAL MOUNTAINCLIMBING GUIDE. He was guiding other two spanish tourists on Misti volcano,tourists who bought the tour with EDU TRAVEL whose owner is EDUARDO FERMIN RIVAS VARGAS who is very well known in Arequipa as the “jewish” because of his crappy 100% poor quality tours WITH INFORMAL TOUR GUIDES.

On 27 of November at 06:15 pm aprox. According to the reports of the clients they heard a voice asking for help. They left their tents and they found their “guide” next to the body of Cristian who was still alive. The “fake guide mountainclimbing guide ” Roy Romero Portugal took the agonizing guide with the help of the clients and he was taken to the base camp number 1 where they were camping.

ROY ROMERO PORTUGAL didn´t call the police but the travel agency QUECHUA EXPLORING HIGH MOUNTAINS . The travel agency organized a rescue team integrated by his own workers and they arrived to the base campament 4 hours after when the guide Cristian died.

The authorities of tourism are trying to cover the death of the student paying money to the press but there are several good periodists who are investigating the situation.

RESPONSABILITIES

According to the law THE TRAVEL AGENCY QUECHUA EXPLORING HIGH MOUNTAINS is the main responsable for hiring STUDENTS AND NOT PROFESSIONAL MOUNTAINCLIMBING GUIDES WHICH PUTS IN DANGER THE LIFE OF THE TOURISTS AND THE LIFE OF THE PERSON WHO IS WORKING AS A GUIDE.

The other respoonsible is ROY ROMERO PORTUGAL who is not a profesional mountainclimbing guide along with the travel agency EDU TRAVEL.

ROY ROMERO PORTUGAL is responsable because he didn´t call the police and he didn´t help Cristian to survive because he had to take agonizing guide down from base campament. He didn´t do it BECAUSE HE IS NOT A PROFESSIONAL MOUNTAINCLIMBING GUIDE AND BECAUSE HE DOESN´T KNOW THE RULES OF MOUNTAINCLIMBING GUIDES IN PERU which say very clear that the mountainclimbing guide in case of accident he should leave the clients in the base camp and he has to organize the rescue of the affected tourists or person inmediately.