Friday Mountain Video

If it's Friday and it comprehensively is, then it must be time for this week's Friday Matinee, our regular selection of outdoors streaming video to while away the hours before the weekend begins.

This week we thought we'd feature something beautiful in the form of the mountain that was voted the most beautiful in the world, Alpamayo in the Peruvian Andes, a stunning shark's fin of snow and ice in the Cordillera Blanca.

You can't see the full face from the valley camp, so it's only climbers and, erm, YouTube viewers who get the full impact. You'll probably recognise the mountain, even if you don't know its name...

To kick things off, here's a cracking sequence of an ascent of the mountain all the way from the valley base camp through to some stunning view from the top.


More stunning footage of the mountain with scary music thrown in, though actually the still photography is arguably more worth watching. Lovely.


Last but not least, the area also has some stunning trekking...


Blimety, that brought back some memories. We're off to buy an air ticket to Lima. Have a good one.