A.A.C., Southern California Section. This Section met in November 1975 for the first time in two years. Pete White was elected the new Chairman; Mike Sherrick was re-elected Secretary-Treasurer. The Section voted to contribute modest monetary assi...
Fairweather Starvation Expedition. Six climbers from the State of Washington, John H. Olson*, Jerome Eberharter, Steve Doty, Gregg Foster, Reese Martin and Steve Pollock, had hoped in June to do some difficult new routes in the Fairweather Range. ...
Over three days in September, Dave Nettle and I established a new route on Bubbs Creek Wall in Kings Canyon. Samurai Warrior (V 5.11 A1) follows the first pitch and a half of Crystal Bonzai before taking an independent line to the right. All but t...
Peak 10552, Cathedral Rock, Pillar of Death. On July 19 Rick Medrick and David Dornan climbed the prominent buttress on the right (east) side of Cathedral Rock, which is the last formation encountered on the right (north) as one proceeds up the De...
FALLS ON ROCK, PROTECTION PULLED OUT, NO HARD HAT Colorado, Eldorado State Park, The BastilleOn June 18 and 29, 1994, respectively, two climbers (33 and 40) took falls, had protection pull out, and turn upside down. In the first instance, the vict...
Mount Steele. In the summer of 1977 the weather seems to have been particularly bad and after one expensive, abortive attempt to fly to the southeast side of Lucania and Steele, we changed our objective to the east ridge of Steele and hoped to tra...
California, near Bishop, Unnamed 12,000 foot peak in Sierra Nevada— Whit Inman and his father were members of a group of 130 persons on a two-week pack trip in the High Sierra conducted by the Sierra Club in August. The boy was one of ten ascendin...
Hanuman Tibba. The third ascent of this peak was made on June 11 by four instructors and seven lady students of the Himalayan Institute of Mountaineering, Manali. The original objective of climbing Mukerbey was abandoned when one of the instructor...
FALL ON ROCK, INADEQUATE (NO) BELAY, MISCOMMUNICATION Colorado, Eldorado Canyon State Park, Wind TowerOn June 30, a climber (16) fell 15 feet onto a rock ledge on Wind Tower. She thought she was being protected by the top rope. The rope went from ...
Colorado, Clear Creek Canyon—On May 3, a party of five went to Clear Creek Canyon, west of Denver, to practice rock climbing. The party apparently climbed the face of a rock cliff using conventional methods. They then returned to the base of the c...
FALL ON ROCK, CLIMBING ALONE Alberta, Rocky Mountains, Mt. TempleBill Walker set out to scramble up the easy route on Mt. Temple on 15 September 1979. He failed to return and a search was begun. Another climber found his body near the 10,000 foot ...
Swiss Peak, via Central Pillar on Northeast Face. Swiss Peak (c. 7840 feet) is situated between Mount Fury and Phantom Peak above the headwaters of Luna Creek. We were elated on the summit to find no cairn or evidence of prior ascents. On July 28 ...
Annapurna I Attempt. Jean-Christophe Lafaille went back to the south face of Annapurna I where he had been with Pierre Beghin three years ago when Beghin fell to his death and Lafaille had an extremely difficult descent alone. Now he was on the Bo...
Unnamed Peak South of Mount Robson. To the south of Mount Robson and south and east of the railroad lies a handsome peak, the type about which you say, “My, that’s a worthy looking peak; we shall have to climb it sometime.” But you concentrate you...
Storm Point, Trinity Buttress. This series of three buttresses, one above the other, lies directly to the left of the southwest ridge. Yvon Chouinard and TM Herbert on August 1 made the first ascent of this route (III, F8) by keeping more or less ...
Salcantay, Repeats of Yugoslavian Route. Our Basque expedition had hoped to climb the virgin west ridge of Salcantay but approach problems forced us to the other side of the mountain. Our muleteers left us at the foot of the Incacheriasca Pass and...
Dunagiri, East Ridge Attempt. A Japanese attempt on the east ridge of Dunagiri failed some 800 feet below the summit. The leader was Yoshihiro Oga.
Cayangate I, East-Southeast Ridge. Cayangate I was climbed from the south by Germans in 1957 and by English and New Zealanders in 1974 by the northeast ridge. We believe ours was a new route. From Laguna Pitita at the north-northeast foot of Cayan...
A Crossing of Bylot Island. Our objective in the summer of 1963 was Bylot Island in N. Lat. 73° at the entrance to Lancaster Sound. From Upernivik, West Greenland, we crossed Baffin Bay on the parallel of 75° N. with the ice of the Middle Pack all...
Cuerno Principal del Paine. Nelson Rivera, Francisco Medina, Eduardo Párvex and I made the second ascent of the Chilean route and third ascent of the mountain on the Cuerno Principal (Main Horn) del Paine. On January 1 we climbed for four hours to...