Cayesh: The Calling

In June 2005 Steve House and Marko Prezelj climbed a new route on Cayesh, an 18,765-foot peak in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru. The new route on the west face was completed in 16 hours and 30 minutes roundtrip from the glacier. The climbing on this 11-pitch route was uncertain from start to summit: The initial 450 feet of an ice/snow couloir was followed by eleven steep pitches of mixed climbing (M7+), one pitch of pure rock (5.10 at 18,000 feet) and a last pitch of ice/snow that led to the corniced summit. Video shot by House and Prezelj.

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Sports

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• Steve
• House
• Marko
• Prezelj
• alpine
• climbing
• Cordillera
• Blanca
• Peru
• new
• route
• Cayesh
• Patagonia

[pikeflyfisherman]

haha Bimbo and Fanny ! What a great piece of footage from two world class alpinist's !

[PhotonSherades]

Mind blowing! Thanks for uploading this. Ive done alpine climbing but nothing ice or mixed. Perhaps it's time to move to Canmore and get in on some waterfall climbing!

[ohjolt2]

@icychap

The DAS parka is amazing, search around and find one on sale, if your an ice climber or a mountaineer you can't do better. Its light, very warm for how thick it is and works very well when its wet.

While your getting that you might wanna get an R1 Hoody, steve talks about all these in his clothing system for Nanga Parbat.

[rf7282]

great vid!!

[chemboy100]

Great video! Prezelj sounds like a character. He would be a great guy with witch to do a stressful climb-his sense of humor would keep things on the level, I would imagine.

I have heard so much about Steve, it is pretty cool to get to see him doing his stuff. I hope his recovery is going well!

[chemboy100]

Great video! Prezelj sounds like a character. He would be a great guy to do a stressful climb-his sense of humor would keep things on the level, I would imagine.

[kennychange]

killer movie!

[addity1981]

house is speaking slovene very fluid:)))

[dave23532]

WOW! All I can say is freakin' wow!

[lveraldi]

Sweet!