The Catalan climbers Bru Busom and Marc Toralles have made a coveted first ascent of Siula Grande's (20,485 feet) East Face in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. Their route, Anima de corall (5.12a A3 AI ...

The East Face of Siula Grande (6344m) in Peru is one of the most repulsive faces in the South American Andes and despite numerous attempts, it had never been breached in its entirety. In 2016 French ...

American mountaineer Nathan Heald reports about Peruana Supreme (1000m, TD, AI4), a new route climbed alpine style up the South Face of Siula Grande in Peru with Peruvians Luis Crispin and Thomas ...

For Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, climbing the Siula Grande, an intimidating peak in the nosebleed section of the Peruvian Andes, was surprisingly easy, not to mention spectacular and exhilarating. But ...

Severing a tenuous link to life in the Peruvian Andes In June 1985, 21-year-old Simon Yates and 25-year-old Joe Simpson set out to ascend Siula Grande, a peak in the Peruvian Andes whose west face had ...

The climber Joe Simpson faced an apparently insurmountable challenge: getting down from Peru’s Siula Grande, in ice and snow, with a smashed and useless leg. He lived to tell the tale — in the ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: With the sleep-paralysis documentary The Nightmare opening in select theaters, we look ...

Something of a tour de force, this adaptation of Joe Simpson’s nonfiction book about his climbing the 21,000-foot Siula Grande mountain in Peru, breaking a leg, and eventually making it back alive is ...

New Zealand adventurer Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became first men to climb Mount Everest 60 years ago today. Six decades later, more than 3,000 people have reached ...