FALL ON ROCK, CLIMBING UNROPED Wisconsin, Devil’s Lake State ParkOn June 1,1986, Joseph Aulbach (26) and Peter Ostebo (25) were doing some climbing on Balanced Rock. According to Aulbach, he was standing below Ostebo, at the base of Balanced Rock,...
Mera. A group of fourteen French youths between the ages of 13 and 17 made the ascent of the trekking peak Mera (6414 meters, 21,043 feet). On the descent they skied from 6300 to 5300 meters at the tongue of the glacier. They were from the College...
FALL ON ROCK, PROTECTION PULLED OUT Pennsylvania, Delaware Water GapOn November 10, 1988, Mike “X” (35) and Randy “Y” were attempting a climb of Sex Kitten (5.8). Mike was leading, Randy belaying. Mike clipped to a rhododendron a short way up for ...
FALL ON ROCK, INADEQUATE EQUIPMENT, FATIGUE Washington, Icicle Creek CanyonThis accident occurred on April 15 while I was participating in an Intermediate Rock 1 climbing course field trip with the Mountaineers. The subject of the class was the p...
Washington, Mount Olympus—On August 21, 1954, Ian MacKay, Anthony L. Levy (30), Robert Hegstrom (24) and Richard K. Neal, Jr. (24) left camp at 6:00 a.m. for an ascent of Mt. Olympus by way of the Hoh- blue pass. They reached the summit of the mid...
Longs Peak, East Face, New Variation. In early December John Sherman and I did a possible new variation on the East Face of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. We first ascended the mixed route Alexander’s Chimney then traversed Broadway t...
Peak 29 Attempt. The 12-man Japanese Hyogo Mountaineering Association Expedition, led by Hiroshi Maeda, tried to climb Peak 29 (25,705 feet) by its east ridge. They set up Base Camp at 14,150 feet on March 30 and Camps I (16,850 feet), II (18,850 ...
Marmolata, Bugaboos. Two new routes were established last summer. On July 31, we had two ropes of three, four of the participants being from the Swiss Alpine Club contingent who came all the way from Geneva to attend the A.A.C. camp. The Swiss wer...
NUT FAILURE—California, Yosemite, Washington Column. Thomas Beck (28) and Ken Baldrey (23) were attempting to climb the South Face of Washington Column (V 5.8, A3) using only nuts. On the third pitch, Beck was leading and pulled out a small stoppe...
LOSS OF CONTROL OF GLISSADE, OFF ROUTE, POOR POSITION British Columbia, Rocky Mountains, Mount NaraoS.C. and K.D. set out fairly early on June 21,1994, to climb the north ice gully on the east face of Mt. Narao (2974 meters), and reached the summi...
Everest Solo Attempt. We established Base Camp and Advance Base on April 1 and 7.1 had support from Margaret-Anne Seddon and Pasang Norbu and Kassang Tsering as far as Advance Base at 5500 meters on the Central Rongbuk Glacier. I ascended the glac...
Gaugiri, second ascent of southwest ridge. On August 27 Austrians Johannes Mihatsch, Anna and Edmund Wirbel, together with Guna Bahadur Tamang and Pisail Tamang made the fourth overall ascent of Gaugiri (6,110m) but the second ascent of the origin...
K2 Attempt, Rescue, Recovery of Bodies of Long-Lost Climbers and Micro-Hydroelectric Project. Our members were my wife Julie-Ann Clyma, Alan Hinkes, Victor Saunders and I as leader. We arrived at Base Camp on June 30 and made rapid progress on the...
Shivling, northeast face direct, attempt. An eight-member expedition from the Corean Alpine Club made an attempt on the unclimbed direct route up the northeast face of Shivling (6,543m). The climbing proved to be steep, with avalanche danger, but ...
Cerro Torre, South Face. Italians Ermanno Salvaterra, Piergiorgio Vidi, and Roberto Mani developed a new route, Infmito Sud (VII 7 A4), over 23 days in November, using a specially designed three-level aluminum-kevlar box to withstand the brutal co...
Marcus Baker, Chugach Mountains. On June 6 Wendell Oderkirk, Bob Smith and Patrick Freeney were airlifted to 8500 feet on the Knik Glacier. They spent the rest of the day moving 1½ miles closer to the peak, but camping at more or less the same alt...
Just before his death Galen Rowell edited a new edition of High & Wild: Essays and Photographs on Wilderness Adventure (Spotted Dog Press, $34.95). In his review of the first edition in the 1980 AAJ Charles Houston said, “It is by far his fine...
Taulliraju Attempt. Clark Gerhardt, Kristian (Del) Langbauer, Todd Thompson and I, accompanied by Juan Henostroza and Aquilino Moreno, established Base Camp on June 26 below Taulliraju’s impressive west face. Unaware of the Italian attempt in 1976...
Glacier National Park, Various Activity. The 1998-’99 ice climbing season was largely a feast of leftovers in Glacier National Park. Routes that had been on the table for years but were not as choice as the rest finally got devoured. Many of these...
The Mountaineering Club of Alaska. The following activities are the more notable ones in which our members participated during 1966: In Alaska’s Chugach Range first ascents were made of Mount Rumble (7350 feet) by Vin Hoeman and David Meyers, Eagl...