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 ...

Already a boys' own classic, Kevin MacDonald's award-winning doc about two foolhardy Brit mountaineers scaling the 21,000ft Andean peak of Peru's Siula Grande is almost hideously gripping. Brilliantly ...

Stills from Touching the Void:Clockwise from left, Actor Brendan Mackey as Simpson trapped in the crevasse; a moment of hope after the improbable escape; Siula Grande. The 44-year-old British ...

The story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' return to the mountain of Siula Grande for the making of the film 'Touching The Void'.

If you watched “Touching the Void” without knowing anything about the film, you might easily mistake it for straightforward documentary about two youths poking a sharp stick in the eye of fate by ...

The award-winning designer is moving mountains with her recreation of the Peruvian peak Siula Grande for Touching the Void. She tells Heather Marks about creating an enormous land mass out of kinetic ...

OPENS DECEMBER 12, CERT 15, 106 MINS In 1985, British mountaineers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates made a bold assault on the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. They became the first (and so ...

Ted shares a book detailing a climber's survival following a disastrous fall in the Andes in 1985. A tale of survival-- In 1985 Joe Simpson and his partner Simon Yates attempted the unclimbed West ...