Pallqarahu

Pallqarahu (Quechua pallqa, p'allqa, p'alqa forked, branched, fork,rahu snow, ice, mountain with snow, hispanicized spelling Palcaraju) is a mountain in the Andes mountain range located in the Ancash Region in northern Peru. At 6,274m, it is the eighth highest summit in the Cordillera Blanca. Summits of the mountain besides its main summit are:

Pallqarahu is part of the Chinchey massif, and the nearest summit above 6,000 m is Chinchey (6,309m) itself, 5 km away in an east-southeasterly direction.

The nearest town is Huaraz, 25 km in the southwest, situated in the Callejón de Huaylas. This town was struck by a mudslide in 1941, descending from the lake Pallqaqucha, 1,700 m below the summit of Pallqarahu.

In July 2012, two American climbers, Ben Horne and Gil Weiss, died on the way back down, after scaling the south face of Pallqarahu W.

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