Kuilu Range, Exploration and Various Ascents. The Terskey Alatau Range extends along the southern shore of Lake Issyk Kul. During Soviet times it was one of the most popular climbing venues in the Tien Shan, having three mountaineering camps based...
Cerro Torre, Fitz Roy, Aguja Poincenot and Aguja Guillaumet in the 1988- 1989 Season. There were three ascents of Cerro Torre, all by the Maestri bolt route: on November 10, 1988 by Americans Brad Schilling and Mike Clifford and by Spanish Catalan...
Fresno Dome, Torn and Frayed. This short, four-pitch climb was done by Jack Forsythe and me in June. It lies on the right side of a prominent pillar a few hundred feet right of the Beckey-Stuart route. Three obvious pitches lead to a huge ledge fr...
Torre Central, South African Route, first free ascent. On February 2, 2009, Ben Ditto, Sean Villanueva, and I summited the Central Tower of Paine via the South African Route, making the firstfree ascent of the 1,200m east face. The route was first...
Kamchatka: It is reported that the highest summit on the island, Kluchevskaya (16,124 feet), has been recently ascended by two Europeans after a long expedition.
Kangchenjunga Attempt. A Spanish expedition led by Mari Abrego attempted to climb the north face of Kangchenjunga. They reached a highpoint of 8400 meters on September 23.Elizabeth Hawley
FALL ON ROCK, PROTECTION PULLED OUT Colorado, Rocky Mountain National ParkOn June 1, 1988, about 1400, during a technical climbing patrol, two climbing rangers were attempting a new route on Checkerboard Rock, a small crag on Lumpy Ridge. The area...
Fifty-Seven-Year Index, Sierra Club Bulletin, 1893-1949, compiled by Dorothy H. Bradley and George Shochat. 138 pages. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1952.An index to anything is a godsend if done tolerably well, and these indexes are. They make thes...
Jirishanca, Southeast Buttress Attempt. The Tirolean Andean Expedition consisted of Dr. Kurt Schoisswohl, Carlo Angreiter, Heinz Coleselli, Erwin Murg, Egon and Georg Wurm, Heinz Wurzer, Franz Oppurg, Hartwig Erdenkäufer, Richard Gerin and me as l...
New Altitudes in the Pissis-Bonete-Ojos del Salado Region. New altitudes have been published by the Instituto Geográfico Militar Argentino now that the Argentine-Chilean border controversy has been settled. The new map (Carta Topográfica Fiambalá ...
Chilean Ascents. Juncal (20,046 feet) was ascended via the northwest glacier by the Chileans Espinoza and Vivanco in early 1961. This route had been previously ascended only by the Italians in 1934. The Chileans Tangol and Vásquez made the first a...
FALL ON SNOW, CLIMBING ALONE, LOSS OF SKI POLE BASKETS— THEN SKI POLES, STARVATIONIdaho, Mount BorahIn early September, Paul Kovatch (40) began his attempt of Mount Borah. This was his seventh try, and nearly ended his goal of reaching the highest...
Mount Foraker, South-Southeast Ridge. The south-southeast ridge of Foraker was climbed in May and June by Jean-Paul Bouquier, Gérard Créton, Jean-Marie Galmiche, Hervé Thivierge, my wife Isabelle, and I, French, and Werner Landry, American. The ...
ACCIDENTS 1953 NOT PREVIOUSLY REPORTEDMontana, Mission Range, Grey Wolf—On May 31, 1953, Bob Pfeiffer, Martin Holznagel, Martin Faulkner, and Frank Hefferlin made an attempt on grey Wolf (9000 ft.). When they reached the 8000 ft. level it was 3:00...
Paria Point, Sunlight Buttress. In October, Ron Olevsky, Steve Johnson and I completed a new route on the east face of Paria Point in the Kolob Canyon section of Zion National Park. We had attempted this line three years earlier but were forced to...
Colorado, Boulder Mountain Park. On August 13th Jim Erickson (age 24) was free-soloing a difficult section on the north side of the Fourth Flatiron. He fell about fifty feet to the ground, breaking his right leg and both wrists, tearing ligaments,...
Himachal Pradesh Climbs by Indians, 1988. Menthosa (6444 meters, 21,140 feet) was climbed on July 30, 1988 by leader Soumitra Ganguly and Chinmoy Pal. Kulu Pumori was ascended on July 30, 1988 by leader Sanat Ghosh, Naresh Sabharwal, Sankar Manna,...
Mawenzi, East Face. The members of our expedition who made this climb were Dario Mozzanica, Bruno Deangeli, Giovanni Balossi and I. At dawn on February 12 we left our bivouac on the south side of Mawenzi and in 12 hours climbed five 13,000-foot ri...
Table Mountain, Northeast Buttress. For several years climbers have peered at the three east buttresses of Table Mountain from the Lower Saddle of the Grand Teton. Yet they remained unclimbed until this past summer when two of the three were ascen...
Witches Tower, Northwest Buttress, Cashmere Crags. In late September, Rick Piercy and I climbed this section of good granite. From the northwest col we started 20 feet right of the buttress, ascended obvious twin cracks and went left to the buttre...