Aconcagua, overview. The official season for climbing Aconcagua is from November 15 to March 15. The Parque Provincial Aconcagua had had 4,434 visitors as of March 7, 2002. Nearly 88 percent of the climbers were non-Argentines, and 410 Argentines ...

FALL ON ROCK, EXHAUSTION, EXCEEDING ABILITIES,PROTECTION PULLED OUT, NO HARD HAT Nevada, Red RocksThe Bobs went to Red Rocks in April for a week of climbing and were on their fourth day. Mark Quiring (27) arrived midweek and was climbing on his fi...

Annapurna South Attempt. The 1984-5 winter attempt by Japanese led by Nobuaki Miyano on the south face of Annapurna South failed. Details are lacking.Elizabeth Hawley

Roraima, The Scorpion Wall. My dream of climbing a tepui began more than 10 years ago. An article in National Geographic captured my imagination, with its photos of huge virgin rock walls soaring above a remote, mysterious jungle. Tepuis, I learne...

Hallets Peak.* In mid-July Larry Bruce and I completed a 12-pitch girdle traverse of the 2nd and 3rd Buttresses. This recommended route starts on the obvious ledge a third of the way up the 2nd Buttress and moves straight out across the face just ...

Geographical DistrictsNumber of Accidents1951–69Total Persons InvolvedNumber of Accidents1970Total Persons InvolvedDeathsDeathsCanadaAlberta 251131000British Columbia471474737Yukon Territory559000Ontario111000Quebec111000United StatesAtlantic — No...

Mountaineering Club of Alaska. The MCA in 1972 continued its active program of sponsoring and practicing the use of mountaineering skills, both in our “backyard” Chugach Range and in the Talkeetnas, Wrangells, and other challenging Alaskan massifs...

DeLong Mountains, Brooks Range. The cold spring and wet summer in the Alaskan Arctic caused floods that swept away villages in the Koyukuk. While studying the western arctic caribou herd with its record 600,000 members, we crossed the DeLong Mount...

FALL ON SNOW, UNROPED, INADEQUATE EQUIPMENTBritish Columbia, Coast Mountains, The LionsDan J. and Kris J. were descending crusty snow after a climb about midafternoon on January 20, 1991, when Dan fell, and slid about 100 meters before he struck a...

Latok III. Latok III, which rises above the Baintha Lupka Glacier has, according to Pakistani officials we talked to, had twenty official attempts. However, our ascent was only the second, following the Japanese first ascent in 1977 when they clim...

Trango Tower (6,251m), almost-free ascent of Eternal Flame. This spring, Toni met Kurt Albert, who told him about his route, Eternal Flame, on the south face of Trango Tower and the possibility of free climbing it. The result was that three months...

Kohe Keshnikhan. The Southwest German Hindu Kush Expedition was led by Karl Fücks. They drove from Germany to Wark in the Wakhan and walked for two days up the Keshnikhan valley to Base Camp at 13,750 feet. For acclimatization, on July 21 Wolfgang...

Manaslu Ascent and Tragedy. Our expedition was made up of Italians Marco Bianchi, Giorgio Passino, Christian Kunter, Mario Corradini, Belgian Sven Vermeiren, Bulgarians Yordanka and Borislav Dimitrov, Poles Barbara Stocka, Sylwia Dmowska, Mariusz ...

Cerro Torre, South Face. Marko Lukic, Miha Prapotnik and I climbed an extremely difficult new route on the south face of the Cerro Torre, completed on February 25, 1994. It lies entirely to the right of the route I did with Silvo Karo in 1988. It ...

Upon That Mountain, by Eric Shipton, 222 pages, 30 illustrations and 4 maps, with a Foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1943. Price 12/6.The distinguished contributor of the Foreword places Mr. Shipton in the fo...

ALASKAN GLACIERSThe expedition under the leadership of H. Bradford Washburn, Jr., to Mt. Crillon in the Fair weather Range made some interesting observations on the glaciers of the western slopes of the Fair weather and Southern St. Elias Ranges. ...

From November 26 to 29 Fumitaka Ichimura and I made the first ascent of Tawoche’s north face. There was an obvious, logical line that was unclimbed, at an ideal altitude for an attempt in November.On our first try, however, we failed because we to...

FALLING ROCK, POOR POSITIONColorado, Ouray, Dexter Creek SlabsOn February 26, the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team was called out to rescue Carroll Robinson (36), who had been struck on the head by a large rock. He and his partners, Dan Mays and Steve H...

Hungchi, attempt. The successful first ascent of Hungchi (7,036m) in April 2003 by Takashi Shiro’s Japanese Osaka Eiho Alpine Club expedition is recorded elsewhere in the Journal. This team climbed from Nepal. However, it appears that an attempt o...

Shisha Pangma, Central Summit. Our expedition was composed of Eturou Hino, Toyofumi Miyazaki, Masanori Hasimoto and me as leader. Before entering Tibet, we acclimatized in Nepal. This prevented difficulties with high altitude. We set up Base Camp ...