Large Siula

Siulá Grande is a Montagne in the Cordillère Huayhuash, in the the Peruvian Andes. It culminates at an altitude of 6.356 meters.

It is especially known for the rise and the painful descent that Joe Simpson realized in company of Simon Yates in 1985, the autobiographical novel suspended Death makes the account of it. The book was related to big screen, under the same title in 2003. Although it climbed the mountain by its Western face, becoming thus the first to carry out the rise by this way, they chose the northern face (gone down the first time in 1936 by a German forwarding) to go down again, which was practically impossible because of the extreme conditions in 1985. All the other mountaineers had chosen to go down again the face in recall (Source or reference???).

Here a list partial of the first rises, according to each way:

1936 Northern Face by two Germans
1985 Western Face by Joe Simpson and Simon Yates
1999 Peruvian Western Face: Suspended Death (new way) by Carlos Buhler. (The road of Buhler followed that Yates/Simpson road on most of the rise, and Buhler named this road " Suspendue" Death;)
July 17th 2001 Noches of " Juerga" , Western Face of Siulá Large
Northern July 3rd 2002 Face, way Los Rapidos by two Sloveniens - Marjan Kovac and Pavle Kozjek ()
August 2002 Tracks Mammoth , western face, by the Netherlanders Rogier van Rijn and Eva Oomen ()

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