Mount Logan. Dan Dobbins and Bob Carlson climbed the main peak of Mount Logan on July 5 while Chris Hoepker and Colin Fuller climbed the west peak. They ascended via King Col.
Ulamertorssuaq, Moby Dick. We were seven climbers (Ben Masterson, Didi Langen, H.M. Gotz, Walter Obergolser, Heli Gargitter, Stefan Glowacz and myself). We started the climbing on July 3 and arrived on top July 20. We had fixed ropes all the way t...
EXCEEDING ABILITIES, ASCENDING TOO SLOWLY, EXPOSURE, HYPOTHERMIA, FROSTBITE, WEATHERWashington, Mount Rainier, Liberty RidgeAbout 2000 on May 1, 1992, the park received a message from the emergency radio located at Camp Muir from the summit. The c...
FALL ON SNOW – FALLING ICE SHEET KNOCKED CLIMBER OFF, CLIMBING UNROPEDOregon, Mount Hood, SouthsideOn June 9, Meredith Jacques (30) was ascending the Southside Route with 11 others. They were at the 10,000-foot level near the summit rocks when a “...
Appalachian Mountain Club. The AMC continued its program of training in rock climbing and mountaineering. However, both large chapters (Boston and New York) made efforts to limit the participants in an effort to slow the influx of people into tech...
P 6120, Near the Devils Thumb, Southeastern Alaska. On May 18 Curt Olson and I climbed P 6120, one of the prominent peaks east of the junction of the Baird Glacier and the Witch’s Cauldron near the Devils Thumb. The climb involved about 3000 feet ...
Moro Rock, El Niño. Grant Gardner, Jody Pennycook and I completed a new route on the east face of Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park during an extended Veteran’s Day weekend. Three and a half days were spent on El Niño (V 5.10 A3+). This nine-pitc...
Peak 10552, Cathedral Rock, The Snaz. This route ascends the west face of Cathedral Rock in the large dihedral cutting up the center of the face. Yvon Chouinard and Mort Hemple on August 4 pioneered this excellent IV, F9 route. After a steep step ...
FALL ON ROCK, FALLING OBJECT (THE CLIMBER), CLIMBING UNROPED, PLACED NO PROTECTION, POOR POSITION, EXCEEDING ABILITIES Colorado, Rocky Mountain National Park, Hallett PeakOn June 25, 1994, at 1015, John Baise (21) was attempting to lead, unroped, ...
Mount Kennedy, North Ridge, Second Ascent. On May 12 Terry Boley, Jack Lewis, Alan Millar, David Stevenson and I left the Alaska Highway and arrived at the base of Kennedy’s north side after seven days of travel. There we located our food and equi...
California, Sierra Nevada, Clyde Minaret—In the early afternoon of September 3, Dick Scheible, Jay Holliday, Marcia Lightbody, and Charles Finnila (21) of the University of California Hiking Club reached a point on Clyde Minaret where they decided...
Tos-Tichu Himal. Ernest Peterson and I spent three weeks of July in the Punjab Himalaya. From Kulu valley, about 350 miles north of New Delhi, we first drove and then hiked 30 miles eastward, up the valley of the Parbati River to the last village,...
FALL ON SNOW, UNABLE TO PLACE PROTECTION, POOR POSITION Colorado, Mount Powell, Northwest CouloirOn July 6, W. H. (m. 26) and K. D. (f. 30) decided to climb unroped because of lack of available protection and soft snow unable to hold snow flukes o...
Colorado, Turkey Creek Canyon (1)—On July 4, Daniel McGill (15) fell while climbing with a group of friends in the Turkey Creek Canyon area. Details of the accident are unknown. The boy suffered a possible broken shoulder and other injuries.Source...
AVALANCHEBritish Columbia, Purcell MountainsA group of ten skiers led by Rudi Gertsch had been taken by helicopter to an unnamed 9,000-foot peak near the junction of McMurdo Creek and the Spillimacheen River in the Purcell Mountains on 14 February...
Mount Challenger, Southeast Face. On July 27 Martin Epp, Ernst von Allmen and I climbed this route above Luna Creek, starting from the col between the face and the prominent gendarme. We followed the yellow dièdre until close to the overhanging se...
Singuchuli, East Face. Until our visit, the east face of Singuchuli remained unclimbed. The face is 1450 meters high with an average angle of approximately 65°, and characterized by narrow couloirs, especially in upper part of the face. Over the e...
West Greenland and Mount Raleigh, Baffin Island. The objective for Mischief’s second voyage to Davis Strait was Mount Raleigh in Exeter Sound on the east coast of Baffin Island. This mountain was so named by the great seaman-explorer John Davis in...
Nez Perce, Lemon Crack. This new route (III, F9, A3), climbed on August 1, 1969, by Peter Cleveland and Michael Yokell, is on the same cliff as the “Big Bluff’ route which was established some ten years ago. The route starts in a cave below a whit...
Salcantay, East Ridge. On July 27 we pitched Base Camp at 14,275 feet below the east ridge of Salcantay. We placed camps at 16,250, 17,400 and 19,300 feet. On August 4 and 5 Dr. Mario Quattrini, Giorgio Marconi, Antonio Mangononi, Consuelo Bonaldi...