While the mountaineering community has recently been focusing its attention on the high mountains of Pakistan, three top European climbers have achieved an alpinistic masterpiece in the Peruvian Andes.
Alexander Huber (54, the younger of the two Huber brothers) from Germany, Dani Arnold (41) from Switzerland, and Simon Gietl (40) from South Tyrol opened a new route on the 6,094-meter-high Jirishanca. Their line runs 1,030 meters up the challenging East Face and ends at the East Summit at 6,028 meters.
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