California, Mt. San Jacinto—On February 27, a church group camping at Camp Tahquitz went for a short hike on the Devils Slide Trail. When the group re-assembled at the camp for lunch, it was noticed that Paul E. Walker (68) was missing. Walker had...

Chimborazo and lliniza Norte. From January 3 to 7, my wife Grace and I were pinned down in our tiny tent near 18,000 feet on a northern ridge of Chimborazo between Whymper’s two routes. Twice we tied off portions of the tent as it started to rip. ...

A.A.C., Sierra Nevada Section. The section held four meetings in 1962. On February 9 Richard Hechtel showed spectacular slides of the Cordillera Blanca in Peru. His expedition the previous summer climbed Chopicalqui by a new route, made the first ...

Papoose Rock, Hallucination Route. This 450-foot route on the west face is the most difficult yet done on Papoose. It follows several non-continuous crack lines just left of the middle of the face and turns a major ceiling and then a prominent yel...

Nilgiri South. Our Shinshu University Expedition was composed of Taichi Fujimatsu, Hideki Yoshida, Nobuhito Morota, Seiji Tanaka, Yoshiaki Kato and me as leader. We left Pokhara on September 5 and got to Base Camp at 13,300 feet beside the Miristi...

Cerro Torre, Compressor Route, and Fitz Roy, West Face, Attempt. On February 11, British legal alien Kevin Thaw and I climbed the Compressor route from the Norwegian Camp, making the trip in 27 hours. Earlier, we had attempted a new route on the w...

McKinley, East Buttress. On May 29, Don Lee flew Scott Hartle, Joe Terravecchia and me to 7700 feet on the northwest fork of the Ruth Glacier. For the next week during unstable weather, we ascended the 1963 ramp to Thayer Basin. Rather than to att...

Alberta, Rockies, Mt. Athabaska. On 29 July D. Caldwell (27), L. Swanson (27), and S. Imber (30) were on the usual (Thorington’s 2) route on Mt. Athabaska. Miss Imber stayed on the false summit while the two men went out the long snow ridge to the...

Cutthroat Peak, East-Face Couloir. In April Tim Wilson and I made the first ascent of the prominent gully system that splits the east face of Cutthroat Peak. It was five pitches of enjoyable snow and ice with one long steep pitch of ice at the bot...

South Staunings Alps. In July and August a Scottish expedition was in the South Staunings Alps, a little known region of Scoresby Land in central East Greenland. It was sponsored by the Junior Mountaineering Club of Scotland and led by James Clark...

Manaslu, South Ridge Attempt. A nine-man expedition from Wroclaw, Poland, led by Janusz Ferenski, attempted Makalu by its south ridge from the Pungen Glacier to the col between Peak 29 (Dunapurna) and Manaslu. The route had never before been attem...

Stonehouse Pinnacle, Stonehouse Peak, Trinity Alps. During the late spring, Frank Yager, Bill Griffin, and I hiked seven miles up to Lower Canyon Creek Lake in the Trinity Alps to climb a 1000-foot pinnacle on Stonehouse Peak. Our route followed t...

Manaslu Attempt. An Italian expedition led by Lorenzo Massarotto attempted the east ridge of Manaslu (26,760 feet), which had unsuccessfully been tried by the French in 1977. They set up Base Camp on April 7 at 12,700 feet. Terrin Elvio and Vittor...

First American Ascent of the Grépon. Additional information corrects the note in A.A.J., 1944, 5:2, p. 309. An undated ascent in the period 1900-03 by Charles Robert Cross (A.A.C.). In 1907, Homer A. Rogers (A.A.J., 1959, 11:2, p. 271). In 1909, J...

Tilicho. A Nepalese Royal Army expedition led by Lieutenant Colonel Gopal Singh Bhora climbed Tilicho (7132 meters, 23,400 feet) via the northeast ridge. They pitched Camp I at 17,975 feet on April 21. Seven members reached the summit on April 30 ...

University Peak, south face skiing. Shortly after the above ascent and ski descent, on April 18, Brad Barlage and Dave Hanning climbed high on the south face and descended on skis. Barlage turned around about 1,000 feet from the summit and skied t...

Mount Sanford Attempt. The Alaska Methodist University Mount Sanford Expedition was led by me and composed of James Abbott, Jake Burkett, Franz Froehlicher and Mitch Henning. We spent a week on the mountain in mid-May with camps at 6500, 9500 and ...

Appalachian Mountain Club. Participation in all phases of the club’s activities was never greater than in 1965. It has occasioned increased leadership training for all of our outdoor programming in all seasons during recent years. Highlighting thi...

Rurec and Other Ascents. Our expedition of the National Polytechnical School, Quito, took place between July 13 and 27. Our primary objective was Huantsán by the Rajucolta valley, but the unfavorable snow conditions of the season of 1984 forced us...

Loinbo Kangri, Ascent, and Qungmo Kangri, Ascent. It was reported that a joint Chinese-Korean expedition managed to make the first ascent of Qungmo Kangri (7048m) in the Trans Himalaya north of the Manaslu-Annapurna region of Nepal. On October 7, ...