Numbur Attempt. Five Norwegians, led by Arne Naess, attempted to climb Numbur (22,815 feet) by its southwest ridge. The expedition was delayed when Aeroflot took over three weeks to fly their equipment from Oslo to Kathmandu. All members got to 19...
Annapurna III Tragedy. A Japanese expedition of eleven was led by Tsukasa Nakase. They attempted the north face of Annapurna III (7555 meters, 24,787 feet), hoping to repeat the Indian route of 1961. On April 24 Masayoshi Okabe was killed by an av...
Kanjiroba Himal. In the spring of 1969, following the lifting of the ban on climbing in Nepal, the undersigned took a further expedition to explore the northern side of the Kanjiroba Himal, much of which we had mapped on previous expeditions for p...
Lumpy Ridge. Just right of the first pitch of the Route of All Evil on the Pear, on June 21 Robert Anderson and I climbed Sweet Sabina (5.9+) up a clean slab past two bolts before swinging over the middle of the prominent horizontal ceiling above,...
Serrania Avalancha is a huge, east-facing, granite wall situated eight hours, through the Valdivian forest, west of the tiny village of Puerto Cardenas, at the northern end of Lago Yelcho. The approach requires a machete and a crossing of two wild...
Canwell-Gakona Traverse and Climbs, 1993. In April, 1993, Ian McRae and I ascended the Canwell Glacier. We climbed a new direct mixed route on the north face of Institute Peak (8000 feet, 1 mile west of Minya Peak). The protection was always poor ...
Gangapurna Northwest Face Attempt. Our expedition tried to make the second ascent of the 1989 Yugoslav route on the northwest face of Gangapurna. Jacques Neyret, Bruno Béatrix, Eric Deslandres and I set up Base Camp and Camp I at 4900 and 5400 met...
Brammah, Southeast Ridge, Kishtwar Himal. During August Chris Bonington and I were lucky enough to join a climbing course of the Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering. Base Camp was at the head of the Kibur Nallah, the southernmost valley ...
Kongma Tse, P 5886, Kusum Känguru and Attempt on Kwangde, 1991. Between October 16 and November 14, 1991,I visited the Khumbu area, joined for the first 15 days by Ed Pope and Betty Roberts. We established Base Camp at 4900 meters below the west s...
San Valentín and traverse of the Northern Patagonian Icecap, 1995. From January 4 to 29, Chileans Claudio Seebach and Sven Bruchfeld traversed the Northern Patagonian Icecap and climbed San Valentín. Further details are not available at this time....
Pik Lenina Tragedy and Attempt. Ken Nolan, Jean Aschenbrenner, Dan Smith, Canadian Ian McLagen and I attempted to climb Pik Lenina by the standard northwest ridge in July. We were participating in the Soviet International Mountaineering Camp in th...
Shishapangma (Xixabangma), attempt in winter and first winter ascent of the southwest face. Our aim was the southwest face and main peak (8,012m) of Xixabangma in winter. For our attempt we chose the Spanish Route toward the right side of the face...
JOSEPH E. JOHNSON1906-1990Joseph E. Johnson, President Emeritus of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a former State Department official and special United Nations representative, died on October 24 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was bom ...
Barrill and Dr. CookDR. FREDERICK A. COOK in 1906 claimed that he and Edward Barrill, a horse packer from Darby, Montana, had made the first ascent of Mount McKinley. This claim has been hotly disputed over the years. A great many books and articl...
With a Camera in My Hands: William O. Field, Pioneer Glaciologist. William O. Field, as told to Suzanne Brown. Anchorage: University of Alaska Press, 2004. 350 black and white photos, 46 maps, including LINEWORK AND SHADED-RELIEF LANDFORMS. 208 PA...
The Chinese Tien ShanNew routes and great potential in a seldom-visited range.Anatoliy DjuliyThe central Tien Shan range in China, south and east of the borders with Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, is a little-known region with many unclimbed peaks fro...
Illustrated Guidebooks. Jan Kielkowski. Potsdamer Strasse 45, 4000 Düsseldorf 13, Germany. Paperback booklets.Jan Kielkowski continues to put out guidebooks to some of the high-mountain areas of the world. The mountains in various regions are give...
FALL ON SNOW, FAILURE TO SELF-ARRESTWashington, Columbia PeakOn July 13, Lee Giroux (50) and five other members of the Seattle Mountaineers attempted to reach the summit of Columbia Peak. The party left their camp at 6:00 a.m. that morning. Each p...
Changping Valley, first ascents of Chiwen, “The Little Prince,” and Chibu. On September 11 Katy Holm, Aidan Oloman, and I left Vancouver for Rilong, a growing mountain town and access point for the Siguniang Shan National Reserve. From there we ma...
Ascents in the Cathedral SpiresMichael Graber, Buff Climbing ClubON June 26, Cliff Hudson flew Hoo- man Aprin, David Black and me from Camp Creek to the Tatina Glacier in the Kichatna Mountains. We were surprised and slightly disappointed to find ...