South America, Peru, Jangyaraju, Cordillera Blanca

Publication Year: 1959.

Jangyaraju, Cordillera Blanca. On July 18 Steve Dzuranin, Ivan Jirak, and Joseph Muck, of the Explorers Club of Pittsburgh, made the first ascent of Jangyaraju (18,655 feet), which lies northwest of Ocshapalca and Ranrapalca. Base camp was on a small mountain lake at 15,000 feet, below the heavily crevassed snowfields on the north of the peak. An earlier attempt had been thwarted at 17,200 feet.