Annapurna III Attempt. Four Spaniards led by César Gregorio attempted to climb Annapurna III by its southwest face. They had to turn back at 5400 meters on October 6.Elizabeth Hawley
Thunder Mountain, South Face, New Route. In June, Jim Donini and John Bragg reunited after 25 years (the pair had not climbed together since the first ascent of Torre Egger in 1976) to climb a new route on Thunder Mountain’s south face. The centra...
WASPNew York, ShawangunksOn June 22, while leading Direct Erection, a male climber (47) was bitten by a wasp. He went into shock but no fall occurred. He was treated by his doctor. (Source: Brad Snyder)AnalysisThis is the first climbing report inv...
Brammah II. Guus Lambregts, Johan Taks, Gilles Boerlage, Lout Brandt, Ruud Zwart and I arrived a week late, on July 19, at our 12,000-foot Base Camp. It took one week to transport 275 kgs up the glacier, establishing Camps I and II, the latter at ...
Langtang Lirung Attempt. Steve Tenney, Chris Wood, Chris Reveley and I were unsuccessful in an alpine-style attempt on the south ridge of Langtang Lirung (7234 meters, 23,734 feet). Advanced Base Camp at 16,000 feet was abandoned in late April aft...
Thamserku and Lhotse Attempts and Imjatse. Our expedition consisted of Michel Fauquet, Nathalie LeCable, Marie-Odile Martine, Frédéric Potie and me. We climbed from the beginning of September to November. Our first objective was the north face of ...
Ganesh V. The first autumn attempt on Ganesh V was successful when Koji Shibuya and Yasuhiro Matsuda and Sherpas Kusang Lama and his brother Dorje reached the top (6986 meters, 22,919 feet) on October 4 by a previously untried route, the south rid...
An Ascent of Mont Blanc Forty Years Ago. Mr. John Vernou Bouvier (Columbia, 1886; LL.B., 1888), of New York, who completed his ascent of Mont Blanc by climbing the flagpole of the edicule, has kindly sent us the following notes:Parlous are the per...
Marcus Baker, North Summit. Mark Fouts, Ward Warren and I approached by the winding, 30-mile Matanuska Glacier. On June 11 we placed Base Camp at the bottom of Marcus Baker’s north ridge. The next three days were spent threading our way up the nor...
FALL ON ROCK, INADEQUATE BELAY New York, ShawangunksOn May 24, and again on July 12,1986, there were leader falls (both men, ages 26 and 37) from the crux pitch on Ken’s Crack (5.7). Both went all the way to the ground and both suffered fractures....
Traverse of Antarctica via the South Pole, 1990-1. Four Norwegians, Ralph Hoibakk, leader, Herman Mehrem, Simen Mordre and Sjur Mordre, traversed the Antarctic Continent, setting out from the Ronne Ice Shelf in October, 1990, with dogs but without...
Everest Tragedy. On March 13 José Manuel Casimiro, Juanjo Navarro, Antxon Zamarbide and I reached Base Camp at 5200 meters on the Rongbuk Glacier. On March 20 we carried gear with the help of six yaks to 6500 meters. We spent the next days supplyi...
Huantsán, Attempt on East Ridge. Our attempt on Huantsán (20,981 feet) failed on the summit rock band at about 20,500 feet. We arrived at Base Camp in the Quebrada Huantsán with six climbers: Bill Lahr, Chris Chandler, Craig McKibben, Malcolm Moor...
Pasto Salado and other peaks. In different trips to the mountains located some 15 miles west of Vicuña, Coquimbo province, northern Chile, youths of the Colegio Inglés of the town of La Serena made the first recorded ascents in late 1974 of Diablo...
Masherbrum Attempt. A British expedition led by David Hamilton attempted to climb Masherbrum but apparently was unsuccessful. Details are still missing.
Noshaq. I reached the summit of Noshaq on August 25. My companion, Gerry Martens, turned back only 200 feet below the main summit because of bad weather.*Brian R. Gregory, Free-lance Alpine Research Team* The Americans had joined forces with three...
Apostelens Tommelfinger, Suikarsuak, South Greenland. The French Alpine Club’s expedition was led by Marceau Agier and composed of M. and Mme Bernézat, C. Bourleaux, B. Clouet, S. Jouty, J. Michaud, Y. Morin, Dr. H. Muler, F. Pelatan, B. Renard, G...
Zermatt im Winter und Sommer, by Walter Schmidt, vest-pocket size, 120 pages, 84 illustrations, and index, published in Bern, Switzerland, 1958 (in German).This little jewel of a guide book to the Zermatt area, adapted primarily for an individual ...
Bear Creek Spire, South Face, British Chimney Route. On July 5, I took Nigel Gifford, a veteran of British Army expeditions to Nuptse and Everest, on a day climb in the gentle wilderness of the High Sierra. While I hoped to introduce him to a chal...
P c. 8500, Near Jankowski. On August 6 Jim Hilton and I made the first ascent of an unnamed peak of about 8500 feet near the Granduc Mine, two miles south-southwest of Jankowski and three miles north of Mitre Mountain. We ascended from the pass ju...