The Temptress, Ascent, Previously Unreported. In April, 1998, while exploring one of Zion’s many backcountry canyons, Andrew Nichols and I stumbled onto a gem of a wall. “The Temptress” is 800 feet tall, sleek, sheer, and straight as a rail. From ...
FALL ON ROCK, INEXPERIENCE New York, Shawangunks, Shockley’s CeilingOn September 6, 1996, Robyn Williams (19) and I—Sean Hartman (21)—were climbing the classic climb Shockley’s Ceiling (5.6) at the Gunks. I had been climbing for about six months, ...
Goldenhorn, Northeast Arête. August 8 Jim Walseth and I climbed this buttress. From Snowy Lakes the arête was gained by descending one of the many couloirs which exist on the Goldenhorn-Tower barrier. Following the obvious line of the ridge, eithe...
FALL ON ROCK, CLIMBING UNROPED California, Yosemite ValleyOn June 19, Jeff Drinkard (18) and Steve Larson (19) were climbing the Royal Arches route. On the 15th pitch, they unroped for a 4th class section. When they came to the last pitch, a 5.4 f...
Pilot Knob, South Face. This rounded but steep 600-foot dome at the northwest end of Grave Lake rises at the edge of the trail: one can literally rope there. In 1966 Jerry Fuller and I climbed to the final ledge on the south face, using 52 pitons ...
Grand Teton, West Face of the Enclosure. For those acquainted with the esoterica of the Grand Teton, one of the most interesting regions lies west and north of the Enclosure, the high point west of the Upper Saddle. Two features had attracted my e...
TABLE IVComparison of Injury Rates in Selected Sports Rates Are Per 1000 Contact PeriodsInjury ratesInjury ratesSkiing (1)5.90WinterMountaineeringIce Hockey6.811955 Report0.98Track1.761958-62 National Parks† 2.70Basketball1.31College Sports (2)Swi...
FALL ON ROCK, NO BELAY, INEXPERIENCEAlberta, Rocky Mountains, Thompson Creek AreaOn August 14, 1981, a party of four backpackers were climbing through steep cliff bands when one member of the party experienced difficulty in climbing a section of r...
Makalu. On May 21 I succeeded in climbing Makalu* (27,825 feet) with Nawang Tenzing, one of our Sherpa expedition members. Our Austrian-German-Nepalese expedition had three Sherpas as full members but no high-altitude Sherpa porters. Already on Ma...
Talkeetna Range. On October 1 my wife Grace and I made the first ascent of “Hoary Peak” (6057 feet), an important landmark mountain, highest in the Willow Creek drainages. We had walked in ten miles from the Craigie Creek road the day before and m...
Biale, Baltoro Karakoram. Our expedition consisted of Fumiyoshi Shigematsu, Tokiyoshi Kimura, Chitose Okada, Mikio Hamada, Tadanori Ochiai and me as leader. Base Camp was on the right bank of the Baltoro Glacier near the junction of the Mustagh Gl...
Pisco West, Southwest Face. Gustavo Montalvo and Alejandro Pérez Rayon (México) made a possible first ascent on the southwest face of Pisco West. Pinches de Güey (TD, 90° mixed, 60-70° snow) involved six pitches with 50-meter ropes and was climbed...
Tiquimani. A South African expedition, led by D. Robert Reinecke and composed of Harold Hill, Dr. Robin Sandell, Nicholas Coetzee, Donald Good, Malcolm Griffin and the Chilean Germán H. Mills, climbed in the Cordillera Real. Their first objective ...
Shah Fuladi, Western Hindu Kush. After their try to climb Tirich Mir, (see above), the Tokai University group went to climb Fuladi Shah (16,862 feet), 90 miles west of Kabul. From Bamiyan they drove an hour by jeep up the Fuladi valley and continu...
Peaks at head of Pech Valley, Nuristan. After attempts to get permission to climb in Pakistan had failed, the Afghan embassy in Washington was approached about climbing in the Hindu Kush and they encouraged our plans. The expedition, which consist...
Skunk Canyon. On the east face of Square Rock, Christian Griffith led Yellow Christ (50 feet, 5.12a R), ascending a very overhanging wall via a layback crack and face above. The climb had been top-roped by the first ascentionist prior to leading. ...
Kluane National Park Reserve, mountaineering summary and statistics. During 2003 in Kluane National Park Reserve, 140 persons participated in 42 mountaineering expeditions. This accounted for 2,279 person-days in the Icefields of Kluane. This is s...
Muzcol Area, Various Ascents. It was reported that the British-based company, EWP, led two trips into the Muzcol, a group of high summits in the southeastern corner of the Pamir. The first took place in 1996, when a team made ascents of five uncli...
Atunraju and other peaks in the Chinchey group, Cordillera Blanca. Three climbers left Spain by boat with 30 cases of food and equipment weighing about two tons. The rest of us flew to Peru. We all gathered in Huaraz on June 6. Coming from the Bas...
Ulu Mountain, St. Elias Mountains. Organized as a special event of the Second Artic Winter Games, our party was made up of Martyn Williams, Scott Foster, Jim Boyde, Louis Lambert and me as leader. We all reached the 10,160-foot summit of our objec...