Yosemite Valley, various activity. While it has not been on the free-climbing cutting edge for decades, Yosemite still ranks as the world’s premier big-wall arena. With new lines a rarity, this lately has meant hard free-climbing on the massive wa...
Himalchuli Attempt. An 11-man Japanese expedition from Gaku- shuin University, led by Hideo Nishigori, failed to climb Himalchuli by its south ridge, which would have been a new route. They placed five camps on the mountain. On May 4 they reached ...
FALL ON ROCK – RAPPELLED OFF END OF ROPESNorth Carolina, Grandfather Mountain, ShiprockOkie McCornis (28) and his partner spent July 17 climbing on Shiprock, a popular climbing area located on Grandfather Mountain’s East Side. After ascending B.O....
“Snake-Bit” in the Alaska RangeJack TackleTHE EAST FACE OF MOUNT BARRILLE is the size of Half Dome and yet it is dwarfed by its neighbor, Mount Dickey. The center of the face had only one route, that done by Austrians in 1988 (AAJ, 1989, pages 74-...
American Mount McKinley Expedition. Since the study of recent aerial photos before leaving home had raised serious doubts as to whether the condition of the Muldrow Glacier would allow us to reach the base of Pioneer Ridge, we had chosen the south...
Miscellaneous Information Numbers Refer to Number of Persons Involved1951-621959-621963U.S.CAN.U.S.CAN.TerrainRock3654567Snow21722172River2000Unknown0000Ascent or Descent(River crossing not included)Ascent 26816365Descent 2729354Unknown 43120Imme...
FALL ON ROCKCalifornia, Yosemite ValleyOn May 17, 1982, Warren Lee (24) and a partner had just finished a technical climb of the Washington Column and were traversing third-class terrain toward the descent gully. Lee attempted to cross a low-angle...
Nevado PucahircaHARVEY N. PLATTSThe Cordillera Blanca of Peru was the objective of our expedition in the summer of 1955. This great range, lying almost on the equator, contains the highest mountains in the world in the tropical zone. It is difficu...
TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK (TIA)Colorado, Rocky Mountain National Park, Glacier GorgeAt 12:15 pm on August 5, I (43) suffered a transient ischemic attack (TIA) four pitches up The Barb on Spearhead.As I belayed Kelli’s (my climbing partner) lead of...
Japanese Himalayan ExpeditionsI. HIMALCHULI, 1960Jiro YamadaIn commemoration of the centenary anniversary of Keio University, an expedition to the Himalayas was programmed, and this was the earnest desire of our club since before the war. In no ti...
New Hampshire, Mt. Washington. On 14 March Craig M. Merrihue (31) and Daniel E. Doody (32) were climbing the fourth pitch of Pinnacle Gully in Huntington Ravine, a steep and difficult ice climb on water ice. Dan Doody was presumably in the lead wh...
AVALANCHEAlberta, Rocky Mountains, Mount DeltaformOn March 31, 1984, two climbers (in their 30s) planned an early-season ascent of the difficult couloir route on the north face of Mount Deltaform. They skied to Moraine Lake, bivouacked, and began ...
FROSTBITE, AMSAlaska, Mount McKinley, West ButtressIn the early morning of May 14, the team New River George contacted NPS personnel stationed at the 14,200-foot camp and alerted them about a climbing party called Team Homer Company. The former ha...
Bugaboos, Snowpatch Spire, Johnston-Kruk. My time in the Bugs was running slim when my friend Crosby Johnston showed up, training for an ACMG exam. Crosby is a totally undercover brother and a glissading champion; I was psyched to rope up with him...
DURING the recent war, the fliers of the Army Air Forces constantly performed routine combat and reconnaissance missions which forced them to face the most severe climatic extremes ever encountered by man.It was not unusual for our fliers, whether...
The West Face of MakaluFinding a solution to one of the Himalaya’s great problemsby Sergei EfimovTRANSLATED BY SERGEI NEKHAIOn March 15, nine mountaineers from Ekaterinburg, Russia—Salavat Habibulin (the team leader), Alexei Bolotov, Nikolai Zhili...
LETTER FROM HOMER A. ROGERS TO J. MONROE THORINGTONGreetings to a former member of the Mazamas from a former member of the American Alpine Club.Your letter to the Mazamas asking if one Homer A. Rogers is still alive was forwarded to me on the theo...
One dark, drunken February night, I cleared off the beer cans from Andrew Boyd’s kitchen table to show him a photo I’d seen of the south face of the Turret, in the Adamants. Andrew, a longtime Squamish hardman, was game. We shook on it, and in e...
Edith Cavell, North Face Solo. Robert Cordery-Cotter soloed a route on the north face of Edith Cavell at the end of September previously climbed by Colin Grissom and Neil Sanford in 1987. He climbed ice runnels and steep mixed terrain from the Ang...
Acopán Tepui, north pillar, Purgatory. Victory in Venezuela: Stefan Glowacz endures “Purgatory” in Jungle Paradise. Folding canoes, machetes, and climbing shoes were the keys to success for a team led by Stefan Glowacz to the Gran Sabana rain fore...