The latest dispatches relative to the International Kanchenjunga Expedition announce that the attack has been abandoned for this year. They will attack instead Jonsong Peak (24,300 ft.) from the Jonsong La, returning to civilization through Nepal ...
The Colorado Mountain Club. The year 1997 brought success and change to The Colorado Mountain Club. In January, John Juraschek became the CMC executive director and Chip Drumwright began his term as president. Their biggest challenge was finishing...
Climbs in Kashmir-Jammu. Nun (7135 meters, 23,400 feet) was climbed in July by six of the ten Spaniards who attempted it, including José María Jayme and Santiago Amibas. They were followed to the summit on October 1 and 3 by nine Japanese led by E...
Alpine Club of Canada. 1972 proved to be an active year for the Alpine Club of Canada, with membership steadily increasing and club activities becoming increasingly popular. The General Mountaineering Camp was held at Fryatt Creek in Jasper Nation...
Aguja Rafael Juarez, Blood on the Tracks; and Desmochada, The Sound and the Fury. In December, Taki Miyamoto (Japan), Freddie Wilkinson (New Hampshire), Paul Tureki (Alaska), and I (Maine) established a new route on Cerro Innominata (also known as...
FALL ON WATERFALL ICE, UNROPED, EXCEEDING ARILITIES, HASTEAlberta, Rocky Mountains, Mount Rundle, Professors GullyA group of experienced climbers had finished the first pitch of the Professors Falls, a popular waterfall route near Banff. The climb...
A Climber's Guide To Seneca Rocks, West Virginia. Edited by F. R. Robinson, Potomac Appalachian Trail Mountaineering Section, 1971. $2.50.Finally there is an accurate assemblage of the routes on this fine crag in the Potomac Highlands of West Virg...
Langtang Ri Attempt.Peter Konzert and two other Austrians tried to climb Langtang Ri (7205 meters, 23,638 feet) by the southwest ridge, on which they reached 6700 meters on October 20.Elizabeth Hawley
Balakun. This virgin peak of 21,430 feet northeast of Nilkanta was climbed on July 9 by a six-man team from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police led by Hukam Singh.Kamal K. Guha, Himalayan Club
Cordilleras de Agua Negra and Olivares, San Juan. In January Pablo and César Carlacchiani and I continued exploring this beautiful zone. On January 12, we got from Las Flores to Base Camp at Gendarmería Nacional (Border Police) post at Guardia Yie...
FALLS ON ROCK, RAPPELLED OFF END OF ROPEPennsylvania, Ralph Stover State ParkThere were three climbing accident reports from this area. One involved a belayer not being attentive to the climber as he fell, resulting in lacerations and bruises. Ano...
Mount Everest. The expedition of this last summer led by H. Ruttledge and composed of C. G. Crawford, Captain E. St. J. Birnie, Major Hugh Boustead, P. Wyn-Harris, Dr. C. R. Greene, Dr. W. W. McLean, J. L. Longland, E. E. Shipton, E. O. Sheb-beare...
Gurla Mandhata (Naimona’nyi). Our expedition consisted of Hansruedi Staub, Paul Tschanz, Diego Wellig and me as leader. After long negotiations, the Chinese government allowed us to travel to China with our own vehicles so long as we should leave ...
Yoshitaka Kameoka, Kohei Kotani, Daisuke Nakatsuka, Seiya Nakatsukasa, Hiroki Yamamoto, and I as leader, all from the student section of the Japanese Alpine Club, hoped to climb the virgin peaks of Samdo and Panpoche I (Pang Phunch I or Kutang Him...
Washington, Snoqualmie Pass—The Tooth—On Sunday, June 16, with fine weather, a group of four climbers made a successful ascent of the east face of The Tooth. They were descending from the east notch on easy third-class scrambling, and moved onto a...
CHOCK FAILURE—Colorado, Rocky Mountain National Park, Deer Mountain Buttress. On August 15, John Purvis (22) and Dennis Laird (24) were climbing a vertical technical route on the Deer Mountain Buttress. The route was mixed free and aid. Purvis was...
Northpeak, Deliverance. In August 1980, Jack Roberts and I climbed this route that ascends the narrow face between the 30° snow couloir and the F8 chimney. Nine pitches led to an unroping spot, a long way from the summit. Loose rock, dubious ancho...
OFF ROUTE, FALL ON SNOW—UNABLE TO SELF-ARREST, NO BELAY/ PROTECTIONAlaska, Mount McKinley, West ButtressAt 0800 on May 29, the “British Army Expedition” departed the 17,200 foot camp with three members: Dr. Martin Kitson, Paul Holmes, and expediti...
Search for old pilgrimage route to Takpa Siri. In remote and rarely visited Arunachal Pradesh, much remains to be explored. One unexplored place had been the Subansiri River valley, in the central part of the area. In November and December a team ...
Aguja Poincenot, Various Ascents. Several ascents were made of Poincenot in the 1995-1996 season, all by the classic 1962 Whillans-Cochrane Route. On January 13, during a brief spell of good weather, three teams crowded onto the route and summitte...