Steep, terrifying and offering technical climbing in every genre, Jirishanca is the epitome of a mountaineering mountain. But with global warming shifting ice and snow at an alarming rate, two middle-aged fathers face a difficult decision: when does the risk outweigh the reward of hard work at altitude?
Josh Wharton is the most successful mountaineer you've probably never heard of. But while he's quietly achieved ambitious goals with little to no fanfare, fatherhood and warming weather have begun to reshape the world he knew.
When Wharton and his climbing partner Vince Anderson attempted to reach the summit of Jirishanca in Peru via the Italian route in 2003, they had to calculate the risk like never before.
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