Keyword: Jirishanca

With »Kolibri«, Dani Arnold, Alexander Huber and Simon Gietl achieved a first alpine ascent of the east face of Jirishanca (6094 m) in the Cordillera Huayhuash – one of the steepest and most impressive walls in the Peruvian Andes.

Steep, fearsome and offering technical climbing in every genre, Jirishanca is the epitome of a mountaineering mountain. But as global warming causes ice and snow to melt...