Nanga Parbat, Rupal Face Attempt. Dr. Karl Herrligkoffer’s German expedition returned in the late winter to the face which had been reconnoitered in 1963. (A.A.J., 1964, 14:1, p. 232.) After their arrival on February 28, they had bad weather nearl...
Belvedere Peak, Northwest Ridge. This new route on this 7528-foot peak was completed on August 27 by Jim Parolini and Joe Munson. From the glacial valley north of Belvedere and Sundial they ascended to the low point in the Belvedere-Adelaide ridge...
Winter Climbing in the Snoqualmie Pass Area. Winter climbing has become quite popular on these small but rugged peaks. The area sports many excellent, short alpine climbs possible in one day from Seattle. The north face of Chair Peak and the south...
The Derbyshire Himalayan Expedition. Basil Poff and I reconnoitered the Pir Pinjal range in Kulu during June and July, 1958. We selected Indrasan (20,410 feet), an unclimbed peak at the head of the Malana glacier as a likely objective for a strong...
Kang Yisay. An Indian expedition set up Base Camp at 17,000 feet on August 20 and Camp I at 18,600 feet the following day. Naseer Ahmed Mir, Fayez Ahmed Bala and Showkat Hussain Mir left Camp I at 5:30 A.M. on August 22. They started up the northe...
Das Wallis, by Maurice Zermatten. Translated from the French by Hans Grossrieder. 16 pages of text and 80 full-page illustrations from photographs by Benedikt Rast. Lausanne: Verlag Jean Marguerat, 1941. Price, $4.50.
Cascades: Tumwater Firsts. On 2 May 1948 Fred Beckey, Ralph Widrig, Joe Hieb and Wesley Grande climbed the imposing Tumwater Tower on the S. side of the Wenatchee River’s Tumwater Canyon. They used numerous pitons in granite cracks. A 70-foot stre...
Miangul Sar. The Austrian Wolfgang Stefan, accompanied by N. Norris, made the first ascent of Miangul Sar (19,554 feet).
A New Map of Mount Everest. For nearly 50 years I have dreamt of making a very detailed map of the Mount Everest area, using all the most modem tools of photogrammetry. As time went by, aerial cameras, lenses and aircraft continually improved and ...
San Lorenzo. In the first days of December, 1971 Bill Stephenson and I flew by light aircraft from Coyhaique to the small village of Cochrane, a little west of Lago Cochrane and close to the junction of the Río Baker and Río Salto. We continued by...
Annapurna. A seven-man Spanish expedition led by Joaquín Colorado made the 21st ascent of Annapurna by the Dutch Rib on the north face. On October 3, Pablo Aldai and Juan Fernando Azcona reached the summit.Elizabeth Hawley
Yanamarey Sur, west ridge. On July 8 Chilean-North American Evelio Echevarría and Peruvian Alberto Murguía approached via the Queracocha Valley and climbed the west ridge of Yanamarey Sur (5,220m). This may be a new route and the second ascent of ...
Nanga Parbat. Sixteen Czechs, led by Ivan Galfy, made the fourth ascent of Nanga Parbat (26,660 feet) and the second by the Rakhiot route, which cost so many German and Sherpa lives before Hermann Buhl finally made his solo ascent in 1953. Hampere...
Aconcagua. The 23,036-foot summit of the Americas was climbed several times in the past year. The most notable was the French ascent of the South Face, which rises 10,000 feet above Puente del Inca in the Horcones Valley. The climbers compared it ...
Washington, Snoqualmie Pass area, Alta Mt. On 21 May a party of eleven led by Fred Wright left their cars at 0630 and hiked north, on the east side of Gold Creek, for about 2 hours, then headed up Rampart Ridgearriving at the scene of the accident...
FALL ON ROCK, NO HARD HATColorado, Boulder FallsDuring the afternoon on March 6, a person reported a fallen climber in the area behind Boulder Falls by flagging down a United States Forest Service employee, who in turn reported the incident by rad...
Gasherbrum I Attempt and Tragedy. Our international expedition had as members Americans Barbara Shelonzek, Errol Altay, German Gerhard Schnass, Italians Marco Bianchi, Paolo Bernascone, Giorgio Passino, Kurt Walde, Poles Mariusz Sprutta, Dr. Lech ...
Foraker’s Infinite SpurMark BebieWEATHER FOCUSES YOUR CHOICESin the mountains. Jim Nelson and I read many books during the three weeks we spend at the 14,000-foot camp on Denali. That, and a lot of skiing—the storms are dropping much dry powder. W...
Manirang, Saponang and Ghunsarang, Spiti. The second phase of the Indo-British expedition was equally successful, with the third ascent of Manirang, the first ascents of Saponang and Ghunsarang and the crossing of the Manirang Pass. After four day...
EAST OF THE HIMALAYA "Overview" "Part I: East Tibet" "Part II: Three Rivers Gorges of The Hengduan Mountains" "Part III: West Sichuan Highland-Yangtze River Basin" Topographically, the area from the River of Golden Sand to wester...