Mount Fairweather, Attempt. The Chukyo (another name for Nagoya) Alpine Club sent Susumu Kosaka, leader, Yoshikazu Sakai, Kunio Kanno, Shuji Fukamizu and Kenji Nishi to Alaska. They were flown to Lituya Bay from Juneau on June 6. Two of the party ...
A Day at the Races—SnowbirdMichael Kennedy“YOU AMERICANS are selling out too easily,” an English friend told me on the eve of the finals at the International Sport Climbing Championship, held last June at Snowbird, Utah. He elaborated in earnest o...
Royal Tower, Spam and Legs. Memories of fear and exhilaration lingered as I waited out the storm. What a climb our new route was! For 26 hours of continuous climbing, the ice, rock, and snow of the Royal Tower demanded our concentrated energy. My ...
New Routes on the Aiguille du Plan and the Cardinal, Rassemblement International d’Alpinistes, Chamonix. Memories of Chamonix: vin rouge, bad weather, talking politics, great meals … But what of climbing? We had come, forty of us from twenty count...
Shrikanta. Our group consisted of Peter J. Fuhrmann, technical leader, Thomas Anderson, Claire S. Israelson, Scipio Merler, my wife Sharon Virk and me, organizational leader, all Canadians, and the Indians Rattan Singh and liaison officer Gurdeep ...
Great Gorge of Ruth Glacier is deeper than the Grand CanyonBradford WashburnWHAT MAY BE THE deepest gorge in North America was measured successfully for the first time in the summer of 1992 by scientists from the Geophysical Institute of the Unive...
Tales of a Western Mountaineer, by C. E. Rusk. With a portrait of C. E. Rusk by Darryl Lloyd. Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1978. Offset reprint of the original edition of 1924, including title page and 41 photographs, 309 pages, plus 14 pages of int...
Disappearing Dome, Disappearing in Plain Sight. In July Hunter Sibbald and I climbed a new route on Disappearing Dome, in the southern Yosemite area overlooking the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River. We called it Disappearing in Plain Sight (...
Cordilleras Yauyos and Central. Ekke Rubel, leader, Günther Bram, Peter Mirwald, Jochen Edrich, Hans Huber, Axel von Hillebrandt and I took the railroad from Lima to Huancayo, where we changed to a hired bus to get to Alis, north of the Yauyos. Th...
Sentinel, Northwest Couloir and Damon, North Face, Northern Selkirks. On July 11 Margaret Bland, Diane and Geoff Edmunds, A1 Ramanauskas, Joan Nester and I climbed this prominent couloir which can be seen from the Fairy Meadow Cabin. We climbed ov...
Eldred Valley, West Main Wall, Call of the Granite. Due west from Squamish, the Eldred Valley is the backyard of the small coastal mill town of Powell River. Large mountains, deep valleys, and inlets prevent direct road access to the peninsula, bu...
FALL ON SNOW, INADEQUATE EQUIPMENT, NO HARD HATWyoming, TetonsLoren Sheffer (age unknown) was descending from an attempt on the Grand Teton via the Exum Ridge, when he slipped on snow just above the Spalding Falls area of Garnet Canyon. Sheffer wa...
Tierra del Fuego Climbing and Kayaking. From January to March Paul de Mengel and I explored Tierra del Fuego. Starting at Puerto Hambre, a roadhead just south of Punta Arenas, we kayaked across the Magellan Straits, through the Acualisman Channel ...
Bonney’s Guide: Jackson’s Hole and Grand Teton National Park, written and published by Orrin H. Bonney and Lorraine G. Bonney, 1309 American Investors Building, Houston 2, Texas, 1961. 144 pages, illustrated, maps. Price $1.95.The Bonneys, who rec...
Kongur Reconnaissance, Sinkiang (Xinjiang), Western China. Mike Ward, A1 Rouse and I flew to Urumchi, accompanied by our liaison officer, Liu Da Yi. After a visit to the Heavenly Lake in the Tien Shan Mountains, we left Urumchi on June 7 and flew ...
One of the least-visited regions in the Karakoram is the northwestern part of the Batura Muztagh. After extensive investigation in Alpine and Himalayan journals, we decided on the Karambar Glacier area where there are a lot of interesting 6000-met...
Middle Peak of Liberty Bell. On the Memorial Day week end in 1950, Dick Widrig, Wesley Grande and I trudged through snow over most of the 16 miles of the Early Winter Creek Trail to Washington Pass, which is a few miles N. of Lake Chelan in the Ca...
War Comes to the AlpsUrsula CorningON the 24th of August, 1939, the streets of Chamonix are as full as ever, but it is a strangely different crowd which surges up and down the way to the station. Gone are the familiar figures with sack and axe, ru...
The Peak Experience, by Carroll Seghers II. New York: Bobbs-Merrill,1979.Although The Peak Experience is informative in parts and easy reading, this is not the book I would recommend you give your sister, wife, girl friend or daughter who has neve...
Central Puscanturpa, Insumision. Spanish climber David Rodriquez Lopez opened a route, Insumision, on Central Puscanturpa (5442m), a beautiful mountain. The route ascends an oblique couloir that goes almost directly to the summit. The 450-meter ro...