Washington, Mt. Rainier National Park, Edith Creek Cornice. On 5 September Russ Montgomery (35) was practicing self-arrest with Guide Jim Ullin. Apparently he went off the cornice upside down and backward without checking to see if he had a safe r...
Gangapurna Attempt. The Tourism Ministry says that a lone Korean, Lee Suk-Woo, and his sirdar climbed to 7100 meters on January 31 and then gave up when they couldn’t find a route above that point.Elizabeth Hawley
Lone Pine Peak, South-Southeast Face. From the Stone House the south-southeast face of Lone Pine Peak presents the following features: a large couloir starts to the right of the lowest point of the face and ends very high beneath a steep step thro...
Lost Horse Buttress and Unnamed Tower, Bitterroot Mountains. Five separate attempts were made on this route before it was finally completed. Most were foiled by bad weather. Rod Sutherland began this route on the south face in July, putting up eig...
Mt. Audubon, 13,223 ft., was ascended on February 9, 1930, by Erl Ellis and John L. J. Hart, using skis.
Arizona Mountaineering Club. The 300+ members of the Arizona Mountaineering Club enjoyed another successful year of climbing-based activities. The AMC meets monthly and, in 1997, featured such nationally known speakers as Kitty Calhoun, Paul Piana...
P 6036 and P 6150, Miyar Nala, 1985. Scots from Edinburgh University, Peter Smith, leader, Fraser Alexander, Ulric Jessop, Teresa Lee, Alister Matthewson and Jonathan Whittaker, climbed these two peaks alpine-style in early September 1985. They cl...
Alaska Alpine Club. The club continued its weekly luncheon business meetings and monthly slide shows. We have added whitewater canoe and kayak skills into our activities, making it possible to get into some very remote spots. We hope to see a numb...
Fitz Roy, Linea di Eleganza, second ascent and first free ascent. In a single push from February 22 to 24, 2006, Tommy Caldwell, Topher Donahue, and Erik Roed made the first free and first alpine-style ascent (second overall) of Linea di Eleganza ...
CORNICE COLLAPSE, UNROPED, INATTENTIONAlberta, Rocky Mountains, Saddle MountainOn January 29, 1991, about 1500, Jacques and France had just completed a ski ascent of Saddle Mountain, with their dog accompanying them. They were walking along the co...
A Climber’s Guide to the Interior Ranges of British Columbia, by William Lowell Putnam. New York: American Alpine Club. 1971. 323 pages, 35 photos. $7.00 The new revision of this guide has been updated with a see-through plastic-cover similar to m...
Langtang Lirung Attempt. French led by Serge Bazin attempted to climb Langtang Lirung (7234 meters, 23,734 feet) by its southeast ridge but got no higher than 6100 meters on October 29.Elizabeth Hawley
Nandapal. This difficult virgin 20,690-foot peak, east of Tirsuli, was climbed by an Indo-Tibetan Border Police team on June 8 despite unfavorable weather. Deputy Leader Ramesh Chandra was one of the ten who reached the summit.Kamal K. Guha, Himal...
Cerro Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (Ansilta 7). Though this peak was first climbed in 1958 by the northwest ridge, it has rarely been visited. It is second in height in the Ansilta group, but the most difficult. Humberto Campodónico made the first a...
STRANDEDOregon, Mount JeffersonOn September 17, 1993, William Reeves (47), an experienced hiker, was on a four-day trip around the summit of the 10,497-foot peak when he became stranded away from his base camp during a snowstorm.Jefferson County s...
The Italian Expedition composed of Ardito Desio, conte Leonardo Bonzi, Gaetano Polvara, cav. Vittorio Ponti, and Paolo Righini which set out by airplane on July 26th, 1933. to explore the mountains west of Isfahan has returned after having accompl...
Zanser Kangri. Our joint Japanese-Tibetan expedition had Gonbu as Tibetan commander-in-chief and me as chief leader. It was a long way to Zanser Kangri which lies in northwest Tibet and we covered 3000 kilometers round-trip. We left Lhasa with sev...
Babulal Lamu Tamang and Alexandre Ulcakar from France are the first known party to have attempted Samdo since the peak was brought onto the permitted list in 2003. The peak lies northeast of Manaslu on the Tibetan border, south of the Lajyung La. ...
Washington, Olympics—The Brothers—On May 26, fifty-three persons on an Olympic College Basic Mountaineering Class climb reached the summit of The Brothers. The very warm sun penetrated through a light fog. Someone had climbed the mountain a week b...
FALL ON ROCK, EXCEEDED ABILITIES—Colorado, Mt. Evans. Brian Driscoll (29) and Jeff Feet (23) were “scrambling” on extremely loose rock below Crest House. Fell, slid some 600 feet down snow/rock couloir. Dead on arrival from massive internal and ce...