If there were a popularity contest amongst Bolivian mountains, Huayna Potosí just might win. Only 15 miles north of La Paz, the 6088-meter peak, whose name is said to be Aymaran for “Thunderous Youth,” receives more visits from climbers than any of its peers. Proximity to La Paz is one reason, while its perhaps speciously-earned epithet “the easiest 6000er in the world” is another.

So is it really all that easy to climb? The first recorded attempt at scaling Huayna Potosí was a group of six Germans in 1877, all of whom perished; a successful expedition wouldn’t be undertaken until 1919. The route most climbers use today entails an exposed ridge and sections of steep ice—all of which is to say that “the easiest 6000 in the world” might be a misnomer, based mostly on the fact that from trailhead to summit the elevation gain is less than 1400 meters; in other words, by the time you get there, you’re already almost 3/4s of the way up the mountain.