Exploration and various descents. The original premise of Brad Barlage’s and my trip, from mid-April to mid-May, was to traverse from Pond Inlet, near the northern tip of Baffin Island, to Clyde River, 200 miles to the south. The idea was to use s...
SLIP ON SNOW, FATIGUE, INADEQUATE PROTECTIONWashington, Mount AndersonOn July 27, 1982, Dr. Robert Thompson (40) and Dr. Robert Oaks (40) were injured in a fall on Mount Anderson in Olympic National Park. Ranger George Bowen was given the followin...
CLIMBING ALONE AND UNROPED–FALL INTO CREVASSE, INADEQUATE CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENTWashington, Glacier Peak, Sitkum GlacierMy climbing group, which included Jason Cass, Janie Cogen, Jon Hayes, and Yoav Bar-Ness, left camp in Boulder Basin about 4:00 ...
Illimani Peak Names. By far the best map of Illimani is Cordillera Real Süd Illimani, published by the Deutschen Alpenverein in 1990. It contains far more information than the Bolivian Instituto Geográfico Militar maps and has relief shading. It i...
The Wolf’s Fang11 days on the northwest wall of Ulvetannaby IVAR ERIK TOLLEFSENtranslated by ROLAND HUNTFORDAntarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world, an island east of the sun, west of the moon and south of everything else. It is cov...
La Espada, East Face, Under the Knife. During the months of January and February, Jimmy Haden, Sean Leary, and I completed the first ascent of the 900-meter east face of the Sword (La Espada) in the Bader Valley. This wall had seen two previous at...
Ngojumba Kang II. The members of our expedition were Edin Alikalfic, Zdenko Anic, Mario Bago, Nives Boršic, Davor Butkovic, Željko Gobec, Jerko Kirigin, Boris Kovacevic, Branko Ognancevic, Branko Puzak, Mario Rodeš, Branko Šeparovic, Vojislav Vusi...
FALL ON ROCK–HANDHOLD CAME OFF, CLIMBING ALONE, LEFT NO INFORMATION ON WHEREABOUTSCalifornia, Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne PeakOn July 15, at 4:30 p.m. I (Jeff Moore, 27) was injured when I dislodged a large rock while climbing a short Class 3...
The Story of Everest, by W. H. Murray. 195 pages, 24 photographs, 14 maps and diagrams. English edition: London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1953. Price, 15/—. American edition: New York, Dutton, 1954. Price, $3.75.Murray’s book is opportune, not only ...
How could it possibly have happened? Only moments before there had been the tranquil joy of the summit. Traversing downward on hard snow, my back was turned when the sound of a fall caused me to spin around. Through the midnight dusk, I first saw ...
Huntington's East FaceRoger Mear, Alpine Climbing GroupON MAY 3 Steve Bell and I waved goodbye to Hudson and his Cessna. We erected our mini box tent on the Ruth Glacier below the north face of Mount Huntington. For training we repeated the Japane...
OVERDUE, VARIOUS FALLS ON ROCK, INADEQUATE EQUIPMENT, PARTY SEPARATED, INEXPERIENCECalifornia, Mount Shasta, Mud Creek CanyonOn June 24 at 1800, the Siskiyou County SAR was notified of a missing 25- year-old female. She had left her partner at 13,...
Cololo (5,915m); Chaupi Orco northern summit (6,000m); Katantica Central (5,610m); new routes and repeats. During July resident French guide Alain Mesili and visiting Brazilian guide Waldemar Niclevicz spent almost two weeks climbing several route...
South Face of Pilot Peak, Absoroka Range, Montana. Knowing only Pilot Peak’s name, its location and the fact that Phil Smith had climbed it previously, on July 31, 1955, Bill Buckingham, my wife Jean, and I followed Fox Creek as far as the limesto...
Paine Group, Patagonia. An Italian expedition, sponsored by Padre Alberto de Agostini and led by Dr. Guido Monzino, made several first ascents of severe difficulty in the Paine group. Although plagued by the bad weather typical of the region, on D...
Spiti. The Cambridge University Expedition to Spiti comprised Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Lamb, Dr. R. W. Hey, geologist,and me. We left Manali on August 10, 1955, and crossed the Rohtang Pass (13,050 feet) to the Chandra valley ...
IndiaGarhwalNilkanth, West Ridge, New Route. Between May 28 and June 3, a guided British expeditionled by Martin Moran made the first ascent of the west ridge of Nilkanth. This ice spire rising directly above Badrinath Temple is one of the most be...
Zaalayskiy Range, Kurumdy East, north rib. Our team of 11 Czech and Slovak climbers approached the Eastern Zaalayskiy Range by six-wheel-drive from the settlement of Sary Tash, on the rough Osh-Kashgar road near the Tajik border. When we could dri...
ROBERT LINDLEY MURRAY UNDERHILL1889-1983With Robert Underhill’s death on May 11, 1983, after a short illness, America lost one of its pioneers in the advancement of technical climbing. A quiet and unassuming person, he never advertised his exploit...
Mt. McKinley Map, Second ascent of Mt. Brooks, second and third ascents of Scotts Peak, Alaska Range. During the summer of 1953, the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and Boston’s Museum of Science completed a long series of field observations which...