Wyoming, Wind River Range. Gannet Glacier, between Dinwoody and Woodrow Wilson Peaks. Indications were that on or about 19 July Albert Scibetta (28) was climbing alone and totally unequipped when he fell approximately 300 feet over snow, rock, and...
University of Wyoming Outing Club. During the year UWOC conducted a spring and a fall climbing school. Although in the spring attendance was somewhat sparse, registration at the fall school numbered over 100 people. Sessions were held on three suc...
Annapurna Winter Ascent: Kukuczka’s 13th 8000er, 1987. Jerzy Kukuczka and his fellow Pole Artur Hajzer got to the summit of Annapurna on February 3, 1987 on the first winter ascent of the peak and the first Polish ascent. Wanda Rutkiewicz and Krzy...
Kanglacha, Ladakh. Kanglacha (20,520 feet) was climbed on July 17 by a six-man Indo-Tibetan Border Police team led by Y.C. Khanna.Sohli S. Mehta, Himalayan Club
Kalidaha Peak and Spire. I was the leader of an Anglo-American expedition to the Kalidaha Spires. Our Base Camp was in the Dharlang Nala, a five-day walk from Kishtwar. From September 3 to 9, Britons Carl Schaschke and Jeff Knight made the first a...
Cerro Pico Moro, first ascent, Normal Casanova. After my return from Cochamó, Jose Datolli, Felipe Opazo, and Marcelo Cortes organized an expedition to Cerro Pico Moro, near Palena, Chile. With the help of the Chilean Air Force and the Municipalit...
British Columbia Mountaineering Club. The club staged four successful camps and 82 scheduled trips to make the 1971 season its most active yet. The expeditionary camp to Mount St. Elias is covered elsewhere in this Journal. The “family” camp consi...
Ama Dablam, Southwest Ridge in Winter. Ama Dablam was climbed several times by the southwest ridge in December of 1990. A Norwegian-Swedish expedition led by Norwegian Jan Westby climbed the mountain on December 2 when Norwegian Magnar Osnes and S...
Incahuasi, Ojos del Salado, Aconcagua. I was lucky to find a ride into the Ojos del Salado area. A group of government people left Copiapó on a Saturday morning to return eleven days later from Argentina. So I spent eleven days alone in the mounta...
FALL ON SNOW, UNABLE TO SELF-ARRESTWyoming, TetonsOn July 6, 1989, Ralph Trover (40) and Joe Kelsey (50), Exum Mountain Guides, successfully took clients Tamara Martin and Wesley Jones up the Grand Teton. At 1800, the four were descending the stee...
FALL ON SNOW, CLIMBING ALONEWashington, Mount AdamsOn October 18, Derek Mamoyac (27) fell as he was descending after reaching Piker’s Peak at 11,657 feet, below the mountain’s summit. He stepped in some snow he thought was solid, but it gave way.M...
Ratang-Parbati Expedition, Spiti. We explored and photo-surveyed a hitherto unmapped area of over 400 square miles, crossing ten virgin passes varying in height from 17,800 to 21,000 feet, one across the Main Himalayan Divide itself. Fifteen new g...
FALL ON ICE, INADEQUATE PROTECTION, OVERCONFIDENCEWashington, Mount BakerOn August 4, 1991, a group of two guides and eleven students walked to an area near the center of the Coleman Glacier on Mount Baker. The ice formed an amphitheater with 30 t...
Washington, Mt. Shuksan—On August 7, 1955 at 4 a.m., Dr. Paul Gerst- mann and Robert Parkhurst, both members of the Mountaineers and experienced climbers, along with Larry Wold, an independent climber with somewhat less experience, set out to clim...
ROPE STUCK ON RAPPEL, STRANDED California, Yosemite Valley, Royal ArchesOn June 16, 1993, around 1630, Erika Heine (19) and Tracy Walker (29) stuck their rope while rappelling on the Royal Arches descent route. They were at the third rappel statio...
The Cathedral Spires in the Yosemite were attempted late in the fall by Richard Leonard, Jules Eichorn and Bestor Robinson. They used a number of pitons and are still hoping to reach the top of the higher spire in a later attempt. The principal re...
Gurla Mandata, ascent. Japanese climbers, Masakazu Okunda and Susumu Yamada, together with a high altitude porter, climbed this 7694m peak in Western Tibet via the Original Route up the West Ridge approached from the north. The summit, a.k.a. Naim...
Bhagirathi IV (6,193m), III (6,454m), and II (6,512m). During autumn, Slovenians Rok Blagus, Luka Lindic, and Marko Prezelj blitzed the Bhagirathi Group, making three significant first ascents. The trio was reasonably lucky with the weather; durin...
PITON FAILURE AND FALL ON ROCK—Quebec, Val David, Mont King. On August 1, 1976, Julien Belanger (20) was leading la Traversee on Mont King and anchored himself to a piton on the highest part of the slab. While he protected his second, the piton ca...
Glaciology in the Sixteenth Century. The following passage is translated from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis (Basel, 1543):What is understood of Glaciers. Glaciers, though not mine nor metal, yet resemble pure crystal in clarity, and...