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Japanese climbers Saki Terada and Chiaki Inada got caught in whiteout fog descending Nevado Huascarán's 6,768-metre summit in June 2025. One made it…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 28, 2026
Saki Terada and Chiaki Inada summited Nevado Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain, together on June 23, 2025. By the early hours of the next morning, descending through fog so thick they could barely see each other, Inada had stopped moving. Terada made it home…
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Huascarán is the tallest peak in Peru and one of the highest in the Americas, and its south-face Escudo route is a serious technical objective, not a walk-up. Terada and Inada, both experienced alpinists, climbed it well enough to reach the top — this wasn't…
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What this means for trekkers Huascarán is a technical peak, not a trekking objective, but the pattern that nearly killed both climbers shows up everywhere in high-altitude climbing, including on the Himalayan peaks we guide: the summit is rarely the dangerous…
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