Sep 03 2025
Mammoth Mountain Mammoth Mountain is one of the best-known peaks of California’s Eastern Sierra, but it is very different geologically from many of the granite summits surrounding it. Rather than being primarily an uplifted granitic peak, Mammoth Mountain is a volcanic lava-dome complex built by repeated eruptions along the southwestern edge of the Long Valley …
Jul 16 2025
Mount Kaweah 🏔️ Overview Mount Kaweah is a remote high summit in California’s southern Sierra Nevada, rising deep within Sequoia National Park and the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness. It forms the southern end of the rugged Kaweah Peaks Ridge, a dramatic spur associated with the Great Western Divide. For generations, Mount Kaweah was generally regarded as …
Jun 24 2025
Cerro Paramillo 🏔️ Overview Cerro Paramillo is a prominent mountain in northwestern Colombia, rising within the rugged northern reaches of the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes. Located in Antioquia Department, the mountain forms part of the Nudo de Paramillo, or Paramillo Massif, an important highland region where Colombia’s Western Cordillera begins to branch toward the …
Jun 21 2025
Mount Keith 🏔️ Overview Mount Keith is a high and relatively remote summit on the crest of California’s Sierra Nevada, rising to approximately 13,983 feet (4,262 meters). Although it falls only about 17 feet short of the 14,000-foot mark, the mountain receives considerably less attention than nearby California fourteeners such as Mount Williamson and Mount …
Jun 08 2025
Rasac is a glacier-covered 6,000-meter peak in Peru’s spectacular Cordillera Huayhuash. Rising immediately west of the much larger Yerupajá massif, Rasac has a broad profile that can appear comparatively modest when viewed beside the highest mountains of the range. In reality, it is a serious high-altitude mountaineering objective with steep snow, ice, glacier travel, exposed …
Jun 08 2025
Yerupaja Chico 🏔️ Overview Yerupaja Chico, also spelled Yerupajá Chico and historically known as El Toro, is a spectacular glaciated mountain in Peru’s Cordillera Huayhuash, one of the most rugged sections of the Andes. The mountain rises immediately north of the much larger Yerupajá, the highest mountain in the Cordillera Huayhuash and the second-highest mountain …
Jun 05 2025
Jirishanca Jirishanca is one of the most striking and technically formidable mountains in the Peruvian Andes. Rising sharply from the northern part of the Cordillera Huayhuash, its steep rock walls, hanging glaciers, narrow ridges, and distinctive pointed summit have made it one of the range’s most recognizable peaks. The mountain reaches an elevation of 6,094 …
Jun 05 2025
Sarapo Sarapo, also known as Nevado Sarapo, is one of the great high peaks of Peru’s Cordillera Huayhuash, a compact but exceptionally rugged mountain range in the central Andes. Rising to approximately 6,131 meters (20,114 feet) according to Peakbagger, Sarapo is the third-highest major summit in the Huayhuash after Yerupajá and Siula Grande. Despite standing …
Jun 03 2025
Pico SimĂłn BolĂvar Pico SimĂłn BolĂvar rises above northern Colombia in the extraordinary Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an isolated mountain massif that climbs abruptly from the Caribbean region to permanent ice and some of the highest elevations in the country. Long overshadowed in geographic references by neighboring Pico CristĂłbal ColĂłn, modern surveying now provides …
Jun 02 2025
Siula Grande 🏔️ Overview Siula Grande is one of the highest and most formidable mountains in Peru’s Cordillera Huayhuash, a compact but exceptionally rugged range in the central Peruvian Andes. The mountain rises to a commonly cited elevation of 6,344 meters (20,814 feet) and is generally considered the second-highest summit in the Huayhuash after nearby …
