Glacier training & Yanapaccha (5460m)

4 days we spent practising, freezing and heavily breathing on a glacier above 5000m before proper ice climbing our first technical peak: “Yanapaccha” (5460m, AD-, 60 degree ice) in the Cordillera Blanca. Zigeiner & Jason (a US rock climber I met @ my hostal in Huaraz) climbing the last pitches of the west face (normal [...]