Denali National Park and Preserve Mountaineering Summary, 1992. The 1992 climbing season on Mount McKinley was record setting in the number of climbers and mountaineering fatalities. This year marked the most intense period of rescue in the mounta...
P 5881, Munjan-Bashgal. The Americans Jack and Jeff Dozier on August 11 made the second ascent via the north ridge of P 5881 (19,295 feet), which had previously been climbed by the German Naturfreunde expedition.
Aguja Poincenot, Fitz Roy Group. An ascent of the northwest face of the Aguja Poincenot was made from December 17 to 21, 1970. This difficult 3000-foot face was climbed by the Argentines José Luis Fonrouge and A. Rosasco.
The Bear that Climbs. Russian climbers who made the first ascent of a 15,770-ft. peak in Russian Turkestan promptly named it, according to a midsummer dispatch from Tass, for the Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse Tung.Russian explorers have reporte...
Annapurna Dakshin Attempt, Ridge in South Face. Ken Andrasko, Jim Beall, Chris Bretherton and I as leader attempted the unclimbed ridge which splits the south face of Annapurna Dakshin (Annapurna South; 7219 meters, 23,683 feet). We climbed up the...
Thui I. An expedition from Waseda University was led by Jiro Kitaoka. Base Camp was established on the Kotalkash Glacier on August 20. They attacked the north ridge of Thui I (21,851 feet) and on September 16 reached 19,350 feet from Camp III at 1...
Mount Huggins, Royal Society Range, 1989. On December 19, 1989, Brenton Worley and I made the second ascent of Mount Huggins (3733 meters, 12,248 feet), the southernmost peak of the Royal Society Range in South Victoria Land. The first ascent had ...
Vinson Massif, West Face Ice Stream, repeat ascent. As reported above, on December 23 Luis Fraga, Miguel Angel Vidal, and I made a rare ascent of the 2,000-meter high West Face of Vinson (4,897m). We repeated the line first climbed in 1999 by Conr...
Paine Towers, East Face of the Torre Sur and West Face of the Torre Norte. After the arrival of Frenchman Vincent Sprungli and me at the foot of the Paine Towers on January 18, we started the very next day to take advantage of each period of calm ...
LIGHTNINGNorth Carolina, Hanging Rock State ParkOn March 18, 1989, Staff Sargeant Lynn Tiegdan was struck and killed by lightning on Moore’s Wall. The storm occurred just after 1400. Tiegdan was part of a group of climbers who sought shelter in wh...
Kennedy and Hubbard. Americans Susan B. Clark, Emma Lipton and Ned Corkran climbed Mount Kennedy via the Cathedral Glacier between April 18 and May 7. Americans Bob Kandiko, Jack and Constance Bennet, Joseph Garcia and Karen Neubauer climbed both ...
Der Weg zum Berg, by Alfred Gräber. 8vo., pp. 191. Same publisher.Two new volumes maintain the excellent standard of publications issued by this energetic group of Munich booklovers. Stöger-Ostin has arranged a new edition of his interesting biogr...
Wisconsin, Devel’s Lake Practice Bluffs—On October 16, 1955, the weekly Sunday rock climb of the Wisconsin Hoofer Mountaineers was attended by nine climbers and four leaders. Four rope teams commenced climbing the quartzite buttresses of the east ...
FALL ON ROCK, INADEQUATE PROTECTION, HANDHOLD FAILUREAlberta, Rocky Mountains, Kid Goat Buttress, “Keelhaul Wall”On July 24, Laura and Marty went to the Canadian Rockies for a climbing trip, hoping to do a few routes in the Bow Corridor. Starting ...
Menlungtse Attempt. Jim Wickwire, Jeff Duenwald, John Roskelley and I entered Tibet from Nepal, hoping to make the first ascent of the eastern and highest summit of Menlungtse (7181 meters, 23,560 feet). The lower western summit had been climbed b...
Kedar Dome, East Face, The Sunrise Pillar. It was reported that Polish climbers Janusz Golab and two friends repeated Martin Moran’s 1984 route The Sunrise Pillar on the east face of Kedar Dome. The team spent five days on the route before topping...
Ninashanca, Northwest Face, and Seria Sur, West Face. A Polish expedition from Gliwice made a dozen ascents in the Cordillera Huay-huash. On June 30 Janusz Baranek and Andrzej Czok climbed the 1000-foot west face of Seria Sur (5230 meters, 17,159 ...
Grand Traverse, Speed. During the summer of 2000, after finding out that arthritis had settled into my hips for good, I suffered a counter-reaction that drove me to run everywhere I could think of and destroy more cartilage as a way to avenge the ...
Stonehouse Buttress, Milky Way Chimney. In May, 1980 Eve Laeger and I climbed this A3 Beckey route free. IV, 5.10+ .Herb Laeger, Unaffiliated
Api and Nampa, New Routes, and Bobaye, First Ascent. A Slovenian team mounted an expedition to a remote mountain group in western Nepal during the post-monsoon season, establishing three new routes on still-unclimbed faces, including one virgin su...