Torre del Parón and La Esfinge. The granite formations of the Parón Valley offer the best granite climbing of the Cordillera Blanca but have suffered from misinformation in the past. An article earlier in this journal gives an overview of their hi...
Harvard Mountaineering Club. The summer of 1964 saw H.M.C. members mountaineering in a dozen ranges in at least three continents. Undergraduates took part in five different expeditions in the Western Hemisphere. One of them, Hank Abrons, joined Gr...
The World’s Great Mountains: Not the Height You ThinkTerris MooreIt has been little noted, except perhaps by geophysicists and mountaineers, that Mount Everest is not, if absolute methods of measurement are used, the highest mountain in the world....
Nanga Parbat, Diamir Face. Another expedition led by Dr. Karl M. Herrligkoffer returned to and climbed the 13,000-foot-high Diamir (northwest) face of Nanga Parbat (26,600 feet), where they had made a brilliant reconnaissance to 23,450 feet in 196...
Twice as NiceThe all~free ascent of two El Capitan routes in a single day.Tommy CaldwellSunday, October 30, 2005I’m strolling nervously to the base of the Nose with Beth and her dad, who will carry my shoes and empty water bottle back to the car. ...
Louise Boyd Land, Various Activity. Team Members Helen Bostock, Andrew Bostock, Matt Tinsley, Dave Mills and Neal Hockley were in the field (centered on 73°30' N, 28°00' W) from July 2-August 26. The majority of the climbing was done during July, ...
New England Section. On March 6 the Section hosted its first “Old Timers Day” on the ice and in the rain at Willey’s Slide at Crawford Notch, New Hampshire, displaying and using ancient garb and ice gear from the 1970s and earlier: 10-point crampo...
1951-19971998Geographical DistrictsNumber of AccidentsDeathsTotal Persons InvolvedNumber of AccidentsDeathsTotal Persons InvolvedCanadaAlberta38311284213128British Columbia260103579409Yukon Territory332673000Ontario33861000Quebec29862000East Arcti...
Mt. Stuart is a Cascades icon, featuring 3,000' climbs on excellent stone or dependable ice. I’d assumed its major faces and ridges had been completed, until I saw photos of an unclimbed 1,000' buttress towering over the glacier, between Stuart Pa...
The Last Hero: Bill Tilman. Tim Madge. The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1995. Cloth, 288 pages. $24.95.Bill Tilman’s books are durable steerages through the most remote tempests on the planet. His two anthologies, The Seven Mountain Travel Books and The...
Mt. Bradley, East Ridge, attempt. Jay Rowe and I went into the Ruth Gorge during the last week in June 2002. We first repeated the Orgler route on the west face of Hüttenturm, a fantastic moderate 12-pitch climb done in T-shirts under blue skies. ...
Dhaulagiri II. An Austrian expedition, led by Egbert Eidher, took over a month traveling from Butwal to establish Base Camp near Mukut on April 20. During reconnaissance north and west of Dhaulagiri II (25,429 feet), the leader climbed an 18,000-f...
Manaslu. We were Aldo Bonino, Christine Chapoutot, Marc Ferrari, Jacques Granjean, Jacques Sananes, Monique Vidaillac, Jacques Vuillemin, my wife Gilberte and I as leader. We were on the mountain from September 24 to October 14. We had camps at 17...
(The month of December was one of the coldest on record in North Carolina. The below-freezing temperatures created a variety of great ice climbing opportunities throughout the western part of the state.)Around 3:00 p.m., my partner TS and I were f...
The Everlasting Hills, by J. Waller. 8 vo.; 190 pages, with 64 plates and 4 sketch-maps. London: Blackwood & Sons, 1939. Price 15s.“I have become a great believer in luck ; it seems to me that the mountains are kinder to those who cannot be ex...
Laila Peak, First Ascent. Our German team of five made the first ascent of Laila Peak (5971m) in the Rupal Valley. (This peak should not be confused with the famous Laila Peak in Hushe Valley.) The peak is situated at the right end of the Rupal Va...
Mountaineering : A Solace to Sedate Old AgeJOHN H. STRONGTHERE are more mountaineers, actual and potential, scattered over the country than most of us realize. They are popping up continually. Most of these feel frustrated as they see youth vanish...
Alpinisme Anecciotique, by Charles Gos. 8 vo., pp. 320. Neuchatel: Attinger, 1934. Price Fr. 3.50.Here is a volume that should prove a welcome addition to the library of every mountain lover, whether or not he has ever set foot upon the Alps. Here...
Kichatna Spire, Black Crystal Arête. Chad Kellogg and I completed a new route (to the summit) on Kichatna Spire (8,985') in the remote Kichatna Mountains. The Black Crystal Arête (3,000', 5.10 A2) climbs the striking south ridge of the spire, and ...
At 4 a.m. on September 30, I (Tom Randall—22) started up Eagle’s Way, VI 5.8 A3, on El Cap, in an attempt to break the solo record. I had checked the weather with the rangers at the Wilderness Center and was given, “...sunny for the next two days,...