Jirishanca is a mountain of the of the Cordillera Huayhuash

Cordillera Huayhuash

The Cordillera Huayhuash is a mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the boundaries of the Ancash Region, Lima Region, y Huanuco Region...

 in west central Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

, part of the Andes

Andes

The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about long, about to wide , and of an average height of about .Along its length, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated...

. At 6,126 m m/24,118 ft (other sources: 6,094 m/23,992 ft) it is the tenth highest in Peru and the third in the Cordillera Huayhuash (after Yerupajá and Siula Grande). The mountain's local name means "Hummingbird Beak of Ice".
First climbed in July 1956 by 1950 by Toni Egger and Siegfried Jungmeir, the mountain is notoriously difficult and has been very few successful ascents. It is on average climbed less than once per year.

The easier rout to the summit is quoted TD but other difficult routes exist, many on them on vertical ice and with overhanging section of mixed terrain.