Nevado de Cocuy. Six Colombian students, Santiago Péerez, Pancho and Sergio Gaviria, Juan Manuel Diaz, Andrés Uribe and Pepe Luis Moreno, climbed Ritacuba Blanco (17,926. feet) on March 25. Moreno and S. Gaviria also made the first Colombian ascen...

Annapurna Dakshin, Southeast Ridge Attempt. On October 14, only four days out from Kathmandu, Susan Diprima, Jim Jennings, John Lapkass, Geoff Radford, Dave Sullivan and I as leader reached Base Camp at 13,500 feet in the Annapurna Sanctuary. The ...

Reed Pinnacle Area, Old 5.10, Yosemite. Pat and Paula Ament and I climbed the knobby wall left of Lunatic Fringe in June. This short but demanding climb is protected by three bolts and involves several F10 sections. NCCS I, F10.Tom Higgins

Teram Kangri. The Shizuoka University Alpine Club expedition was led by Hajime Katayama and had 17 other members. They left Khapalu on June 1 and traveled via Goma, Ali Bransa, the Bilafond La, Lolofond and Siachen Glaciers to reach Base Camp at 1...

Slick Yeti Expedition. Another expedition sponsored by Tom Slick and led by Peter Byrne spent several months in Nepal fruitlessly searching for Yeti.

The Needles, Warlock Needle, Imaginary Voyage. In August Dick Leversee and I made an ascent of this five-pitch route up the east face of Warlock Needle. The first lead starts in a long, left-slanting jam- crack on the right-hand portion of the eas...

Caullaraju. The Edelweiss Club’s all-women’s expedition successfully climbed Caullaraju ( 18,655 feet; first ascent on July 14, 1962 by Domingos Giobbi, Emilio and Macario Angeles). From a camp at 16,750 feet the climb was made on May 22 by Ryuko ...

FALLING ROCKAlberta, Rocky Mountains, Mount FayOn August 2, a party of three were climbing the center ice bulge on the North Face Ice routes when one of the climbers was hit by rockfall, sustaining a lower leg fracture. The party lowered the injur...

Shivling Ascents. It was reported that the husband-and-wife team of Stevie Haston and Laurence Gouault ascended the Original Route of Shivling in one and a half days from basecamp. Other ascensionists were Ed Douglas, Tom Prentice, and three Czech...

Huascarán on Two Artificial Legs. In early August the Englishman, Norman Croucher, who has two artificial legs, climbed to the summits of both Huascarán and Pisco. He was accompanied by Terry Tullis and his wife Julie, Dennis Kemp, Mike Welham, M...

Attempts on Tirsuli and Nanda Devi East, Garhwal. Our seven-man team left Delhi on April 15, and with seven Sherpas and over 100 porters reached the Tirsuli Base Camp, at Rugus, whence the Poles had made their attempt in 1939. Strong winds and hea...

For those interested in South American mountaineering, the May-June number of Andina contains an article on an attempt on Tupungato and the ascent of Tupungatito (both of which were ascended by the well-known Fitzgerald expedition in 1897) accompa...

Tehipite Dome, Wall of Ages. Last summer John Fehrman, Bryan Sweeney, and I completed a route (Wall of Ages V-VI 5.11+ A0) up the main south face of this magnificent dome in Kings Canyon National Park. This three-year project had involved Richard ...

Cordillera Huayhuash. Kwansai University’s expedition was led by Dr. Hirohito Sugihara and consisted of Akira Kozuki, Kunio Hisano, Yoshihiko Kondo, Tsutomu Nakano, Toshimi Yonekawa, Yoshihiro Ikeuchi, Shin-ichi Hibi and Yuichi Hasegawa. Leaving L...

FALL ON ROCK, FAILURE OF RAPPELLER, CLIMBING UNROPEDNorth Carolina, Crowders MountainIn April 1981, a person was rappelling from Crowders Mountain when he knocked off an unroped climber. (Source: T. C. P. Zimmermann)AnalysisWhile there are no furt...

Amphitheater Mountain, Sunday Morning Buttress. On July 27 Don Monk and I did a short climb on this buttress located one mile northeast of the summit. It is prominent from Cathedral Pass. The route begins on the left of a 50-foot pillar and contin...

P 8300, Buckskin Glacier, Alaska Range. From March 25 to April 9, Rick Erst, George Menard, Ted Moore, Pete Robinson and I skied from road to road up the Ruth Glacier and down the Buckskin Glacier, crossing via 7950-foot “Window Pass” to the nor...

Manaslu II. A third Japanese expedition attempted to climb Manaslu II (Peak 29) (25,705 feet) but failed to reach the summit.

Three Teeth, Southeast Tooth, Northeast Face, 1987. In September 1987, Bruce Runnals and I climbed this five-pitch route left of the original Rowell-Jones-Beckey route. All five pitches were 5.10 (III).Al Swanson

Geek Towers. Jim Bridwell and Mark Clemens reached the top of two narrow, converging buttresses between Yosemite Falls and the Lost Arrow Chimney, which they named Geek Towers. About 800 feet up; 1 day. NCCS III, F10, A3.ROYAL ROBBINS