Aconcagua Attempt and Ascent. On December 14, Brian Asbury and Glen Frank started up from the normal route's 14,000 foot-basecamp in an attempt to make the second (?) ascent of the Estiban Escaiola route on the west face of Aconcagua. Day one asce...

PULLED OFF A LOOSE BLOCK – FALL ON ROCKWashington, Mount StuartI was climbing the West Ridge of Mount Stuart on September 7 when I pulled off a loose block and took a 60-foot fall. We were roped up,belaying the pitch. We had decent protection in, ...

P 12,266, Mount Hooker Region, Wind River Range. In August my brother Jonathan and I climbed the 1000-foot face of P 12,266, which is just north of Baptiste Lake. We started on steep, loose rock just right of a prominent arête. Halfway up, the roc...

Endicott Mountains. Peak 6800 is one of the most astonishing limestone walls in the Brooks Range. It stands above a beautiful canyon on the upper western fork of the Itkillik River, immediately east of the Cocked Hat Glacier. Approaching from Anak...

Alpine Club of Canada Camp at Elk Lake. Approximately 170 people attended the Elk Lake Camp, held in the French Military Group south of the Kananaskis Lakes, a new area for the Annual Camp. The following peaks were climbed as first ascents: Aosta,...

FALL ON ROCK, FAILURE OF RAPPEL—KNOT CAME UNDONE,NO HARD HATWest Virginia, Seneca RocksOn October 12, 1994, Imtiaz Lalvi (32) and David Lue-Chee-Lip (26) had just finished climbing Candy Corner to Skyline Traverse. When they arrived at Lower Broad...

Pico Colón, Pico Bolívar and other peaks. An expedition of our club, made up by H. Frank, J. L. Moreno and me, placed Base Camp near lake Usugaca. A very large group of German trekkers also camped nearby. On December 25, our group climbed Pico Tai...

West Temple, Southeast Face, Full Steam Ahead. From February 11-24, Ammon McNeely soloed the route Full Steam Ahead (VI 5.10 A4) on the southeast face of West Temple. Gabe McNeely belayed him on the first pitch. The first and sixth pitches have de...

A.A.C., Oregon Section. The Oregon Section is continuing the testing of ice screws on Mount Hood under Jack Baldwin’s able direction. This program will continue through early spring, with a full report to follow the completion of the testing. As u...

FALL ON ROCK, INADEQUATE PROTECTION Oregon, Columbia River Gorge, Broughton BluffOn May 28, Kurt Gierlich (42) fell 60 feet to the ground from a route on Broughton Bluff. Someone with a portable phone called 911, and a rescue followed. Twelve resc...

Aconcagua—Quaderns d’Alpinisme N° 4. Carles Capellas, Editor. Servei General d’Informació de Muntanya, Centre de Documentació Alpina, Apartat de Correus 330, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain, 1993. 32 pages, photographs, maps, diagrams, route sketches. ...

Mount Chamberlin, West Pillar. The 1400-foot vertical granite face of this peak is not fully visible from any road or major trail, and thus it escaped the recent heavy pressure of Sierra rock climbing until July when Mike Farrell and I made the ro...

A Guide to Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, by Ansel F. Hall, chief naturalist of the National Park Service. Illustrated by Donald G. Kelly. National Parks Publishing House, Berkeley, California. 1931).This attractive little book should b...

DAVID AMBLER SOWLES1933–1963David Ambler Sowles was born on October 16, 1933, and was killed in a tragic climbing accident on August 4, 1963 during an electrical storm while descending the north ridge of the Weisshorn after a successful ascent of ...

Colorado, Long’s Peak—On April 19, Prince D. Willmon (23) (Leader),David L. Jones (18), Jane R. Bendixen (18) and James Greig, left Long’s Peak campground early to climb the east face of Long’s Peak. They reached the base of Alexander’s Chimney ab...

West Virginia, Nelson Rocks. On April 22 George Farrow, Jerry Frederick, and Beverly Frederick were doing practice climbs on the cliffs. The day was sunny and the rock was dry. They had finished their climbing and decided to rappel down. They had ...

Mount Logan, Northwest Ridge. So ends my fascination this year with remote Mt. Logan. My first solo foray led to the fastest ascent to date: just over 24 hours car-to-car. That was a long day in July. On October 1 I found my own little version of ...

FAILURE TO FOLLOW ROUTE, PARTY SEPARATED, STRANDED, FROSTBITEBritish Columbia, Rocky Mountains, Mount AssiniboineOn August 2, 1981, a party of two from the eastern United States climbed Mount Assiniboine from the hut. On the descent they separated...

The North Central Cascades. A painted pictorial relief map in oblique aerial view. Copyrighted by George W. Martin and Richard A. Pargeter. Price $2.25.The Cascade Range of Washington shows the intricacies of the structural and geomorphological st...

Mount Sir Donald, North Face, Selkirks. Almost since the time I began climbing I had heard about the appeal of the unclimbed north face of Sir Donald. This summer was the first time I had an opportunity to visit the beautiful Selkirk Range, and as...