Tirsuli. This twin-peaked mountain, which rises near Hardeol above the Milam Glacier in eastern Garhwal, should not be confused with Trisul, which lies on the other side of Nanda Devi. It had first been attempted in 1939 by a Polish expedition but...
Peaks in the Wrangell Range. Don Brooks, leader, James Meigs, assistant leader, Stu Brody, Art Kampen, Tom Miller and Dave Shrimpton abandoned their original objective, the northeast ridge of Blackburn, after seeing the route from the summit of Ri...
In July 1981, Patrick Paul and I completed another four-pitch route on the southwest face. Where Eagles Dare lies a couple of hundred yards west (left) of the original south face route (The Dance of Topo-Usha, 1980). It follows an obvious crack-an...
El Capitan, North America Wall. On September 6 Dennis Hennek and I completed the second ascent of the North America Wall on the southeast face of El Capitan. We made four bivouacs and were hampered by 100° temperatures.Don Lauria
Argentines in the Cordillera Blanca. Gerard Watzl and his wife Jacqueline with Heinz Kaltschmidt made the sixth ascent of Ishinka (17,717 feet) on July 4 but failed at 19,000 feet to climb Palcaraju Oeste because of the loose snow.
Sloan Peak, East Face. Jerry Fuller and I made the first climb of the east face, using a route near its south corner. The route begins just off the glacier at its highest point, then makes a rightward-climbing traverse on marvelous granitic rock. ...
The Iowa Mountaineers held a summer climbing camp in the Big Horns from August 7 to 22, based at the west end of Spear Lake. There were 342 man-ascents made by the 93 participants during the camp period. First ascents included Shipsprow (12,000 fe...
Kun. Hanns Schell, his wife Lilo, Gerhard Pressl, Robert Schauer and Karl Hub climbed Kun by the normal route. They did not attempt the traverse over Nun, which had been said to be one of their objectives.
Altar, South Face. South-face ascents in the Central Andes (the equivalent of the Alpine north faces) have been, so far, few and far apart. On March 16, G. Cassasa and the Austrian W. Bertsch climbed for the first time the south face of Altar (522...
Annapurna South, Southwest Ridge. The Meiji University expedition was made up of Yoshio Miyagawa, Toichi Mitani, Norio Nakanishi, Mas- ayuki Tsunakawa, Dr. Yoshio Kato and me as leader. The southwest ridge, which we selected, had been attempted ...
Cerro La Mano and Other Peaks, Cordón de los Penitentes. Our expedition was composed of Pablo Hülskamp, Alejandro Robert, Guido Iglesias, Gustavo Glickman, Daniel Sagalovsky and me as leader. Our chief objective was the south face of Cerro La Mano...
Jannu, North Face Attempt. Unfortunately we did not succeed on the north face of Jannu (Kumbhakarna) in spite of eight weeks on the mountain. We stopped at 23,300 feet, still three days from the summit as we calculate it. It was the most moving ex...
Mt. Foraker, southeast ridge, winter ascent. On the morning of February 8 I departed base camp (6,550') on the southwest fork of the Kahiltna Glacier. I made Camp I at 6,400 feet below the base of the southeast ridge in the evening. My route began...
Miangul Sar, Swat-Kohistan. Our party consisted of W. E. Donohue, leader, J. Lovatt, G. D. Hughes, B. D. Chase, Dr. M. McMahon and myself. We climbed Miangul Sar (19,673 feet), which is locally called Dingi Sar. We drove to Saidu Sherif, capital o...
On September 9 my daughter Lynnea, my wife Sigrid, and I completed a new route on 1,100' Disappearing Dome, in the San Joaquin River gorge. Although this is a steep, prominent formation, it has only one other reported route, done over 30 y...
Kanjiroba. An expedition of the Osaka Shiritsu University was led by Kazuhisa Jokei and composed of Ichiryo Sato, Hiroshi Okuda, Hirotada Sawai, Munehiro Sawada, Shinichi Suwa and Masayki Goto. From Jumla they traveled to Base Camp via Chondabish ...
Nagishlamina, East Ridge. In May Brad Gessner, Doug Munoz, Stuart Parks, and I, all of Anchorage, completed a new route on, and made the second ascent of, 11,068' Nagishlamina, one of five peaks over 11,000' in the Tordrillo Range. Our line climbe...
Nameless Tower, North Face, New Route. Our ten-week expedition to Pakistan was successful in establishing a new big-wall route on the north face of Nameless Tower, Wall Fiction (a.k.a. Choss Up Another One, VI A4 5.10 WI3). The route was somewhere...
Niut Range. A party of seven members of the British Columbia Mountaineering Club visited the Niut Range, located east of the Waddington group, for two weeks in late August. Approach was from Trout Lake up Quartz Creek and into the head of Fire Fin...
Milne Island, East Greenland. Our expedition consisted of John Shrewsbury, leader, Mike Garrett, Margaret Graham, Anne and Henry Wheatcroft, Chris Whitford and me. Milne Island is a remote, and as far as we could ascertain, nearly unexplored islan...