Pico Cristóbal Colón is possibly the highest mountain in Colombia, with a reported height of 5,775 metres (18,947 ft).

It is part of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta range, along with Pico Simón Bolívar, and was named after Christopher Columbus.

This mountain is the highest point in South America outside the Andes.

[4] Access to these mountains became very difficult after the early 1990s due to hostile locals, drug traffickers and FARC guerillas.

An expedition in 2015 led by John Biggar was one of the first to climb in the range for many years, and reached the summit of Pico Colón on 13 December.