Buttress 5,650m, first ascent, via west face (Million Indian Stars); Pt 5,750m (“Grandfather Enzo Peak”), south face-southeast ridge. In August an Italian expedition led by Massimo Marcheggiani, and which included Nadia Benedettini, Mariano Fabriz...
Mahindra, middle summit, Ashoka’s Pillar; Peak 5,960m; Orange Tower. After long and crazy travel days, including a ride from a fellow named Happy, Freddie Wilkinson, Pat Goodman, and I thankfully found the end of the road in the small Himalayan vi...
Chacraraju, West Peak. It was reported that Spaniards Simon Elias and Luis Angel Rojo repeated the Bouchard Route on the south face of the west peak (1000 meters, 85°). They also ascended the Pirámid Garcilaso by its southwest face (900 meters, 85...
AAC, Alaska Section. The Alaska Section got a jolt of energy from the AAC Board Meeting in Anchorage in April 2001.I was chosen as the new chair just before the board meeting. During the rest of the year, I worked to renew interest in the Club and...
Turret Peak and Mt. Warren. Some variations may have been added to the established routes which start from the saddle connecting these peaks. An ascent of Turret from the saddle (Elsie Col) was made during a severe snow squall by John Speck, Paul ...
Mt. Hood, South Face. A new route was put up on Mt. Hood in Oregon on September 19. Two separate lines in the same general area were climbed, as my partner, Kendall Dewey, and I elected to climb solo, but within close proximity of one another. Fro...
FALL ON ROCK, CLIMBING UNROPED, PARTY SEPARATED, EXCEEDING ABILITIES, NO HARD HATWyoming, Grand Teton National Park, Cascade CanyonOn September 23, at 2230 Grand Teton dispatch received a call from Mike Shaw (23) reporting his partner, Keith Berli...
Los Gemelos, South Face and Other New Routes. In the previous climbing season, running from December 1980 to March 1981, local climbers made the following new routes worth reporting: Mesón Alto (5281 meters, 17,327 feet) south face direct, G. Macc...
The Purcell Range of British Columbia, by J. Monroe Thorington.8vo. x+; 150 pages, with 79 illustrations and 9 maps. New York: The American Alpine Club, 1946. $2.00.This is the first book dealing solely with the Purcell Range in terms of its histo...
FalerTower, Southwest Side, Wind River Range. On July 15, my father Jim and I climbed what we believe to have been a new route up P 12,607 (213w in Bonney guide, noted as Faler Tower). From our camp at the small lake on the southwest side of Islan...
Peak 4,764m, first ascent, southeast pillar, Xie Xie route. Giovanni Moretti, Riccardo Redaelli, Silvestro Stucchi, and I arrived from Italy and set up base camp at the head of the Changping Valley, between great nameless, unclimbed mountains that...
Kwangde Shar, North Face. The French team of Samuel Beaugey, Christophe Profit, Andre Rhem and Jerome Ruby made an alpine-style ascent of the north face of Kwangde Shar (6093 m) from November 27-December 1. The 1300-meter, 38-pitch route, Extra Bl...
Washington, Cascades, Lundin Peak. On 18 May James Barnett, Robert Rasar, Ann Antonich and George Aspman left the highway at Snoqualmie Pass at 7:30 A.M. to climb Lundin Peak. The day was clear and warm. They observed avalanche activity on adjacen...
The Watchman, Cradle to Grave. In May Dave Jones and I climbed a new 10-pitch route on the northwest face of The Watchman. Our route, Cradle to Grave (V 5.1la C2), starts about 150' left of Hue & Cry. We started in a dark, somewhat hidden, lef...
AVALANCHEAlaska, Mount McKinleyOn May 18, 1982, Don Plumb set off an avalanche on the West Rib of Mount McKinley. Plumb was traversing from the first ice dome at 4100 meters to the second ice dome at 4300 meters on the morning of May 18. As he lef...
Colorado National Monument. Details of routes in Colorado National Monument are available in the new Desert Rock Climbing Guide published in 1987 by the Chockstone Press of Denver. In February, a new route was established on the Oliver Perry-Smith...
Thalay Sagar Attempt. This year P. Minks, C. Rowland, P. Trower, C. Graham, K. Hoppen and I managed to hit the worst spell of Himalayan weather I have ever experienced—avalanches killed 15 people in the area. We didn’t get to within 100 feet of ou...
“Peak 747,” Kuriositeten. Between April 7 and May 3 Eiliv Ruud and I had a great time in the Ruth Gorge. Though bad ice and long sections of vertical or overhanging snow turned us back from four new route attempts, we climbed several outstanding c...
PAUL VICTOR STRUMIA1928-1994Paul V. Strumia of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, a member of the American Alpine Club since 1950, died after a brief illness on July 4, 1994. Born in Philadelphia, he grew up in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor...
The Aiguille Kismet (13,650 ft.) was ascended from camp in Blaine Basin, to the north of Sneffels, via Dike Col and the east ridge to the southeastern base of the final pinnacle. The climb (not difficult) was finished directly from this point to t...