The Abominable Snowman, by Ralph Izzard. 250 pages, 26 photographs. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1955. Price $4.00.The Abominable Snowman (Yeti) has a warm place in my heart because of a story my son told me. Some years ago he and some Sherpa po...

Alaska Alpine Club. The 1960 climbing season began in February with a three-man party reaching the summit of Institute Peak (8000 feet) in the Alaska Range. In April, 20 people participated in a Castner Glacier trip, with eight climbers making the...

FALLING ROCKCalifornia, Yosemite Valley, Leaning TowerOn July 5, 1992, I spoke with Brad Young (32) at the Yosemite Medical Clinic about a climbing accident that he and his climbing partner Doug Burton (age not noted) were involved in on the Leani...

P 6100, Choktoi Glacier. Spaniards Jon Lazcano and Javier Mugarra made the first ascent of a very difficult 6100-meters (29,013-foot) spire which rises above the Choktoi Glacier to the right of Baintha Brakk. They got to Base Camp on June 24. They...

Sickle Moon. A 26-man team from the Indian Army, led by Lieutenant Colonel D.N. Thanka, commandant of the High Altitude Warfare School, left Kishtwar on August 30. Havildar Major Tsering Norbu and Naik Nim Dorje climbed this virgin peak, Sickle Mo...

Cordillera Carabaya. Dr. G. H. Francis and Dr. Alan T. Charig of the British Museum of Natural History, London, arrived in Peru to investigate what had been reported as possibly the world’s largest deposit of nepheline syenite, a rare rock rich in...

New Mexico, Peñasco Springs—On May 20, 1956 a fatal accident occurred on a private party trip to Peñasco Springs, New Mexico. The party consisted of Charles M. Williams (24), Sherman Marsh (21), Robert Lee (31) and Isaac Winograd (25). The group h...

Pamir Alai. A French group led by Pierre Faivre was composed of talented young alpinists: Frédéric Gentet, Robin Givet and Zébulon Roche. They made some excellent new rock routes, particularly on P 4240 and P 3850. They gave up their attempt on Pi...

P 8233, Ruth Gorge and Other Peaks. Stacy Taniguchi, Grant Henke, Dick Wheaton and I had a successful two weeks on the Ruth Glacier. We made the first ascent of P 8233, which lies south of Mount Dickey and west of Glacier Point. We first climbed a...

Everest, 2004 summary. During spring 2003, in the 50th anniversary season of Everest’s first ascent, a record number of men and women had turned up to climb to its summit, and it was assumed that the numbers would decrease after that. Wrong assump...

BENJAMIN SAYRE COMSTOCK1859-1941Benjamin Sayre Comstock, the son of Lydia Sayre and George Wells Comstock, was born in New York City in 1859, in a house which stood at Broadway and 34th Street, the present site of Macy’s. Educated by tutors as a b...

Panbari Himal, first ascent. The unclimbed Panbari Himal, a remotely situated 6,905m snow peak, was only opened to foreign expeditions in 2002. The mountain lies immediately north of the Larkya La (5,135m), a relatively spectacular pass that forms...

Kilimanjaro. Drew Sparn, age 11, reached the summit of Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro and shares the title as the youngest person ever to reach that 19,340 foot summit. He summitted via the Machame route.Cameron Burns

Grand Central Tower, Peshastin Pinnacles. The entirely overhanging southeast face was climbed in two sessions of largely artificial climbing, which involved the use of pitons from knife-blades to giant wooden blocks. A few bolts were needed, and a...

Volkserbe der Schweiz. Six volumes in a series under this general title. Basel: Urs Graf Verlag, 1943-46. Price, $4.50 each.Each of these six volumes deals with a separate canton. They are finely illustrated and, though they are not of the same se...

Darrington Walls. Although the Washington Cascades are not exactly known for having an oversupply of good granite, it was not until two years ago that climbers became aware of the beautiful and challenging walls and outcrops along the waters of Sq...

P C. 4000, Pangnirtung Fiord. In August Brian Carey, Nancy Van Deren and I made the first ascent of a 4000-foot peak five miles south of Overlord Peak and two miles from the east shore of Pangnirtung Fiord. We climbed a snow-filled couloir on the ...

Illimani and Huayna Potosí, Cordillera Real. On August 21 the Americans David and Leslie Kallgren and I climbed Illimani. On August 26 I soloed Huayna Potosí by the normal route.José Miguel Cuevas, Universidad de Madrid

Peaks near the Freshfield Icefield. In August, I spent 16 days alone in the region just west and south of the Freshfield Icefield. Approaching from the east, I hiked for two days to Bush Pass, descended into the headwaters of the Valenciennes Rive...

Tiquimani, by Margaret Griffin. Stellenbosch, South Africa: Kosmo Publishers, 1965. 164 pages; 1 color frontispiece, 21 photographs and 2 sketch-maps on inside covers.This is the story of the first South African expedition to the Andes. Since in t...