This climb is just north of Angel’s Landing on the west side of the canyon. Harry Frishman, Burt Redmayne and I made an abortive attempt on this prominent buttress last spring. When Mike Weis and I arrived in Zion last October, the buttress again ...
The Mountains of Snowdonia, edited by Herbert R. C. Carr and George A. Lister. 8vo., xiii, 312 pp., photographic illustrations, maps and diagrams. London, 1948: Crosby Lockwood & Son, Ltd. Price, 15/-.Another reissue of a standard work, first ...
Lhotse. A four-man Japanese expedition, led by Masaaki Fukushima, climbed Lhotse by the normal route. They had three climbing Sherpas. On May 4 leader Fukushima, Toshihide Haruki and Sherpas Nima Temba and Nima Dorje reached the summit. They used ...
Malubiting, Karakoram. The members of this year’s expedition to Malubiting (24,451 feet) were the Austrians Horst Schindlbacher, leader, Kurt Pirker, Hilmer Sturm and me and the Pole Dr. Jerzy Hajdukiewiecz as doctor. We left Graz, Austria on June...
Peineta. The Fédération Française de la Montagne et de l’Escalade chose eight young climbers of very promising talent and gave them winter training on Mont Blanc, rock climbing at Verdon, more great routes in Chamonix and finally sent four to Nepa...
Huandoy Norte. Scipio Merler led a party of five, including David Jones, Fred Douglas, Neil Humphrey and me, on an ascent of Huandoy Norte from the east side. Approaching from the Quebrada Llanganuco, we set up Base Camp at 14,600 feet. Douglas, H...
Yulong Shan Attempt. Imposing as it may appear from the Yunnan town of Lijiang, Yulong Shan (Jade Dragon Peak) presents no special technical challenge to explain its 50-year virginity and rebuff of four attempts. Only the weather guards it. So far...
FALL ON SNOW, PLACED NO PROTECTION/BELAY, EXCEEDING ABILITIESColorado, Rocky Mountain National Park, Longs PeakOn August 2, 1991, at 0630, Judy Swales (41) and partner Randy Moss were climbing snow on Lamb’s Slide on Longs Peak. As the pair got cl...
Gemini Bridges Trail. Eight miles north of Moab and up the popular four-wheel drive/mountain bike Gemini Bridges Trail, Matt Laggis, Keith Reynolds, and Bill Russell climbed the virgin Pinky Tower at 5.10-. Left of the tower, a short route, Ewe Wh...
Chau Chau Kang Nilda. Indians Amit Chatterjee, leader, Krishnendu Chat- terjee, Samaresh Saha and Miss Sutapa Sarkar left the roadhead at Langja and arrived at Base Camp at 5060 meters on August 4. They set up a high camp at 5275 meters on August ...
Attempt of Lhotse-Lhotse Shar Traverse. Jean Troillet and I established ourselves in Everest Base Camp on August 26. It was not until September 20 that our third member, Ruedi Homberger could join us at Base Camp and that kept him from doing more ...
Ulamertorssuaq, Südtiroler Profil. It was reported the Tyroleans Christoph Hainz and Claus Obrist put up a 27-pitch line on Ulamertorssuaq (1829 m) in July called Südtiroler Profil. The line, which lies to the right of Moby Dick, went entirely fre...
Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man’s Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See (New York: Penguin Putnam; softcover, $14) is Erik Weihenmayers memoir describing his remarkable climbs, culminating with his successful ascent of Everest.
FALL ON ROCK, HANDHOLD PULLEDAlberta, Mount Laurie (Yamnuska)On September 17, C.H. and C.S. were climbing “Grillmair Chimney” (5.5) onMount Laurie. C.S. was leading the fourth pitch when he pulled out a rock the size of a microwave. He fell approx...
Sherpa Everest ExpeditionPeter AthansON MAY 8, THREE MEMBERS of the 1991 Sherpa Everest Expedition attained the wind-scoured summit of Mount Everest or Sagarmatha, the peak’s Nepalese name. I accompanied the trio of Sherpa mountaineers. Just one y...
Gurkarpo Ri, first known ascent. Paulo Grobel organized two commercial expeditions for Nepal’s post-monsoon season. On October 2 Grobel, two Sherpa companions, and five French clients reached the summit of Saribung (6,328m) in the Damodar Himal. T...
Sawtooth Outing of the Iowa Mountaineers. The Iowa Mountaineers of the State University of Iowa spent three weeks of August 1947 in the Sawtooth Range of Idaho. Sixty-four members participated. Base camp was on Little Redfish Lake, and high camps ...
Operation Everest IICharles S. Houston, M.D.UNFORTUNATELY SOON AFTER they left the summit and began the climb to 30,000 feet, one of the doctors collapsed; though he was quickly revived, it seemed wise to discontinue the ascent and the group turne...
P 18,500, above Thalo Glacier, Hindu Raj, Chitral. From the roadhead at Balim, Rich Davies, Rob Thomas, Steve Wrigley, Maggie Worth, Mike Morphen and I as leader walked for three days to arrive at our 12,000-foot Base Camp on Bashkargolo Chat (lak...
The Ndoto MountainsThere is a lot more to the Ndotos than the great Poi. Welcome to the lesser~known crags of Kenya s largest climbing area.Marnix BuonajutiThe Ndotos are a remote cluster of mountains in the deserts of northern Kenya. Getting ther...