FALL ON SNOW, UNABLE TO SELF-ARREST, INEXPERIENCE Washington, North Cascades National ParkOn August 11, 1988, Katrina Kretsinger (22) fractured her pelvis in a fall on Bear Mountain. She describes the accident on an AAC Accident Report Form.We wer...
The Fin, North Face. Dallas Kloke and I climbed this face (Kan- geroo Ridge) on June 23. NCCS II, F7.Bryce Simon, unaffiliated
Mount Neacola, North Face Attempt. On May 1 Kennan Harvey and I flew from Kenai to Lake Clark National Park with six weeks of supplies. On May 10 we did the first ascent of Mount Anklyosaur and skied a 1,500-foot couloir off its shoulder. Then we ...
FALL ON ROCK, NO SPOTTER California, Yosemite Valley, Swan SlabOn July 23, 1992, Michael Poulin fell about eight feet to the ground while bouldering in the Swan Slab area. He sustained a severely angulated right ankle fracture. (Source: C. Jacobi,...
FALL ON ROCK, FAILURE TO FOLLOW ROUTEColorado, Clear Creek CanyonAndy (28) and his partner Tamie (28) were climbing at Canal Zone during the evening of June 21. Andy had clipped the last bolt on Holiday Road (5.8) and was climbing to anchors on a ...
Lawa Brakk. A British Metropolitan Police expedition was led by Gordon A. Briggs. On July 29, after a seven-day climb, Arthur Collins, Lew Hardy, Steven Sands, Philip Solt, Peter Stapely and Paul Vardon reached the summit of Lawa Brakk or Snow Lak...
Peaks above the Biafo Glacier. After considerable trouble in getting to Skardu by air from Rawalpindi, we hired a jeep to take us and our gear to Dasso, the end of the road. We commenced the three-day walk to Askole, the last village. This section...
Wyoming, Grand Teton National Park (3)—On August 19, 1956, after having completed an ascent of the Grand Teton, a Sierra Club party was descending over some rather rough terrain above the “Lower Saddle.” Dr. Jean E. Michels (35) came to a ledge wh...
ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS, FATIGUE, DEHYDRATION Alaska, Mount McKinleyOn the evening of June 1, 1994, Bennett Austin (29) developed a severe case of acute mountain sickness while climbing between 19,000 and 19,400 feet on the West Rib route of Mount...
Sepu Kangri, first ascent. A seven-member team of mountaineers from the U.S. made the first ascent of Sepu Kangri in the Nyainchentanglha Range (previously attempted by Christian Bonington and Charles Clarke—see AAJ 1998, 1999). Mark Newcomb and C...
Peaks in the Endicott Mountains, Brooks Range. In late July I spent a few days at the headwaters of the Iniakuk River, six to eight miles north-northeast of Ernie Lake. The approach was up and through a series of unique canyons with stair-stepped ...
Staunings Alps, East Greenland. The Arctic Expedition of the German Institute for Foreign Exploration was led by Dr. Karl M. Herrligkoffer. As a preparation for the 1968 German North Pole Expedition, it had been hoped to send members both to the S...
FALLING ROCK, STRANDEDAlaska, Alaska Range, Coffee Glacier, EyetoothOn June 15, JJ Brooks (33) was hit by fragments from a large falling rock that had separated from the main rock face. The falling rock had also cut his climbing rope, stranding hi...
High Conquest: The Story of Mountaineering, by James Ramsey Ullman, 8 vo., 334 pp., illustrations and maps. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1941. Price $3.75.This is as good a popular history of mountaineering as any in the language. It is...
Indian Regulations Update. The UIAA was categorically assured by Mohamad Ashraf, Vice-President of the Indian Mountaineering Federation, at the Flagstaff, Arizona Council Meeting held the third week of May, 1996, that there is no policy to exclude...
Northern Pickets. A party of eight Mountaineers climbed in this area during mid-summer, hiking in by way of Hannegan Pass, Easy Ridge, and Perfect Pass to a base camp on Challenger Arm, the ridge running northeast from Mount Challenger. The first ...
Hausinschriften im Schweizerland, by Gilgian Maurer. 272 pages, with 350 illustrations, two in full color. Spiez: G. Maurer, 1951. Price, $4.20.In 1899 Walter Larden, a member of the Alpine Club, began to collect house inscriptions, chiefly of the...
Mount Torment, North Ridge. Jim Pritchard and I made this fairly easy but very enjoyable alpine climb in mid-July, 1969. Camp was made in Boston Basin. To get to the north ridge we crossed over the south ridge and the west ridge of Torment. We the...
Ellesmere-Bowman Island. Bowman Island, with its striking 1870- foot rock tower, lies in the middle of Makinson Inlet, a large fiord in the east coast of Ellesmere Island, roughly 800 miles from the North Pole. My previous expedition in August 197...
Mt. Fairweather From the Sea. Last April our team of five left Port Townsend, Washington on an odyssey to sail to and climb Mt. Fairweather (15,320') without any assistance. We all worked for the Pacific Crest Outward Bound School (which helped us...