ROCKFALLAlberta, Rocky Mountains, Cascade WaterfallOn Feb. 20, after a successful ascent of this waterfall (III, WI3), a party of three were setting up to rappel the route. A large rock (estimated at 50 to 80 lbs) came from above and hit one membe...
Two climbers, Stefan Zuck and Hans Teufel, during the summer of 1937, January through March, made a number of new ascents in the southern Andes of Chile. The E. peak of the Payne Group, Monte Admirante Nieto, 2460 m., and three other peaks of over...
Gyajikang. Gyajikang (7038 meters, 23,091 feet) lies northwest of Manaslu. Our expedition of ten Japanese and five Nepalese policemen, plus Nepali high-altitude porters sent a total of 17 men to the summit via the northwest ridge to the west ridge...
Cabeza del Indio, La Hoja, and La Espada, Paine Group. In November J-F. Lemoine, J-J. Jaouen, J-M. Boucansaud and I climbed on the Paine group despite bad weather. We climbed Cabeza del Indio (2350 meters, 7710 feet), La Hoja (The Blade; 1950 mete...
Flatirons. In the Flatirons above Boulder, Chester Dreiman and I made the first ascent of a tremendous overhang on the west face of Like Heaven Rock, which we named For Your Arms Only. We two also completed a new direct finish to Jeff Lowe’s route...
Mount Everest, From Sweden by Bicycle. I wanted to climb Everest by my own strength from my home to the top and back again. That’s why I started October 16, 1995, from Stockholm, Sweden, with my bike and a specially made one-wheeled trailer behind...
Gemse Peak, Anderson River Group, British Columbia Cascade Range, 1986. Maxim de Jong, Sybil Goman and I climbed a new route (5.7) on Gemse Peak, the southwest face, in May 1986. We made one pendulum. The rock is solid but quite mossy.Fred Beckey
Leo Pargil. An expedition of the Indian Dogra Regimental Centre on June 15 reached the summit of Leo Pargil (6791 meters, 22,280 feet). Reaching the top were Captain Haripal Singh, leader, Havildar Khem Singh, Lance Naik Lalit, Captains Govil and ...
Agdlerssakasit, East Face, First Ascent and Tragedy. At the beginning of August, British climbers Ben Bransby, Matt Dickinson, Gareth Parry, and Ian Parnell made the first ascent of the 1347-meter east face of Agdlerssakasit (1763m) in the Torssuk...
Cho Oyu, South Face Attempt. Six Italians led by Toni Klingendrath failed to climb the south face of Cho Oyu. Two members reached 21,325 feet on October 6 and another two the same point on October 12. They gave up the climb on October 20 after con...
Ngojumba Kang Winter Ascent, 1988. Under the leadership of Chung Jin-Yang, South Koreans Yu Wang-Yul and Choi Mi-Ho made the third ascent and the first winter ascent of Ngojumba Kang on February 11, 1988. They had hoped to continue on along the ea...
Toshe Peak. A German expedition led by Bernd Neubauer climbed Toshe Peak (6600 meters, 21,654 feet) in the late summer. Details are missing.
Aus den Sextener Dolomiten, by Otto Langl. 191 pages, with 23 photographic illustrations. Vienna: Verlag der Oesterreichischen Bergsteiger-Zeitung, 1951. Price, $2.00.The author is a distinguished Austrian climber, whose first and last love for ha...
Sea Kayaking and Climbing in Chilean Patagonia. Rick Ridgeway describes this in a full article earlier in this Journal.
Oxford University Exploration Club Expedition. P. J. Grubb, leader, M. R. Emerson, Dr. R. H. Johnson, J. R. Lloyd, T. R. Pennington, and T. C. Whitmore visited Mount Antisana (18,886 feet) and the foothills east of it from early July to mid-Octobe...
Mt. Chung Sang, Probable First Ascent. On September 2, Geoff Hornby, Susie Sammut and Simon Hall made the probable first ascent of Mt. Chung Sang (5800m) via the southwest ridge. The climb was made in a short day from a camp at 5200 meters above t...
Rock Tower near South Face of Kedarnath. Stefano Righetti, leader, Gian Carlo Grassi and I hoped to ascend the unclimbed 6000-meter rock tower near the south face of Kedarnath. Our Base Camp was at 4000 meters a few walking hours above Kedarnath v...
Condoriri, Huayna Potosí, Huacaña and Other Peaks, Cordillera Real, Sajama, and Parinacota (Chile). Our Bayerische Naturfreunde (Bavarian Friends of Nature) expedition was composed of Theo Dowbenka, Alois Wolfram, Peter Rotter, Heinrich Handel, Jo...
Attempt on Mount St. Elias. On June 15 Alan Batten, John Bryant, Mike Coffine, Jim Gregg, Rick Potrello and I of the Colorado State University St. Elias Expedition landed on the west side of Mount St. Elias at 7500 feet. Our proposed route was the...
P 6455, Palchung Hamga Himal. We had received permission to climb Kanjiroba by its northern side. However, because of the difficulty of the approach up the Langu Khola, this proved to be impossible. Instead, Dr. Fritz Mross, Dr. Helga and Helmut S...