Mount Everest: 1938, by H. W. Tilman. 8vo., 160 pp., 48 illustrations and 4 maps. New York, 1948: The Macmillan Co. Price, $3.75. The great record of the 1924 Everest Expedition tends so to dwarf the accomplishments of subsequent parties that to r...
Climbs by Indian Expeditions. Three persons lost their lives in an attempt to climb Mukerbey (19,910 feet). The group left Manali on October 13. On the 20th the fourth member, Hoshang Pavri found it difficult to go beyond 14,000 feet and returned ...
FALL ON ROCK, PROTECTION PULLED, CARABINER BROKE, EXCEEDING ABILITIESWashington, Frenchman' s Coulee, Air GuitarOn September 30, the famed Swedish adventurer Goran Kropp died from a fall while rock climbing. He was leading Air Guitar, a 65-foot 5....
King Brakk, Allah ’s Finger, Ibrahim Peak, First Ascents. A team of three Italians and one Swiss carried out a massive campaign of exploration in unknown valleys and peaks of the Hushe area. The team was composed of Maurizio Giordani, Lorenzo Lanf...
Tasermiut Fjord, Nalumatorsoq, Stupid White Man, attempt; Ulamertorssuaq, War and Poetry, attempt. Wawrzyniec “Wawa” Zakrzewski and I have climbed in Patagonia, Yosemite, and the Trango Tower area of Pakistan. Last year we visited Greenland, from ...
Manaslu Southeast-Face Attempt. A 10-man expedition from Macedonia, Yugoslavia was led by Jovan Poposki. They attempted the southeast face, the route of the Poles in the autumn of 1984. Frequent heavy snowfall in September and the first half of Oc...
FALL OR SLIP ON ROCK, EXCEEDING ABILITIES North Carolina, Pilot Mountain State ParkOn September 5, Paul Bridges (PB) and Alex Rodriguez (AR) were rappelling in Pilot Mountain State Park, which is located approximately 2 5 miles north of Winston Sa...
Putha Hiunchuli. Another Japanese expedition, from the Nagoya YMCA Alpine Club, led by Tadaki Sabashi, climbed Putha Hiunchuli also by the south spur in the post-monsoon. They too came from the southwest. Leaving Camp IV at 21,000 feet, on October...
Total Alpinism. René Desmaison. Granada, London, 1982. 202 pages, black and white photographs. £12.50.Total Alpinism is certainly a book to read. It is like sitting down with one’s best pal and listening to him tell about his latest wild climb. Th...
Aguja Saint Exupery, north face and east face variation. On January 16, 2002, Americans Lorne Glick and Mark Davis climbed a new variation to the Kearney-Harrington route on the north face. They started on the Kearney line, then climbed a steep cr...
The first Austrian expedition to Queen Maud Land comprised Karl Pichler, Paul Koller, and me. Our goal was to ski east from the well-known Ulvetanna Group in the Fenriskjeften to the Holtedahlfjella, Kurzefjella, and Conradfjella. In November...
FALL INTO CREVASSE, SNOW BRIDGE COLLAPSEWashington, Mount RainierAll 15 members of this climbing party were coworkers, family, or in one case, friends of the Tacoma Fire Department. Kurt Fengler (34) was a lieutenant with the Tacoma Fire Departmen...
MARTY HOEY1951-1982On May 15 Marty Hoey died in a fall at 26,200 feet on the north face of Mount Everest. A day or two later, she would have stood a very good chance of becoming the first woman from this country to reach the summit of the world’s ...
Batian, Mount Kenya. A Spanish team, José Manuel Anglada, Juan Cerda, Emilio Civis, Pokorski, Gines Roca and Rivas made a new route on Batian (17,058 feet) of Mount Kenya. The route led up the Gray Wall, Firmin Tower and through Shipton’s Notch. T...
FALL ON ICE California, Carson PeakOn December 28, 1989, a daring nighttime rescue of an injured mountain climber came off without a hitch as the June Lake Mountain Rescue Team lowered a Davis man some 600 meters off Carson Peak to waiting paramed...
FALL ON ROCKColorado, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Stoned OvenOn Monday, October 20, Irishman Michael Walsh (30) and his two partners were attempting the Stoned Oven Route (5.11d), a 13 pitch, Grade Vrock climb located on the North ...
Angels Four, by David Nott. Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice Hall. 176 pages, 8 color plates, 5 drawings, 2 maps, $6.95Gran Sabana! This wild, weirdly beautiful high jungle land of southeast Venezuela has long been the locale of adventure storie...
Western Hajar, various first ascents.In December 2004 and January 2005, Geoff Hornby (U.K.) and I climbed on the mountain limestone of the Western Hajar. We based ourselves around Wadi Al Ain west of A1 Hamra, three hours drive from the capital, M...
JEAN ESCARRA1885-1955Jean Escarra was born in April 1885 and died in August 1955. He was an eminent French jurist, specializing in various branches of the law and allied subjects, and held many professorships. These were mainly, of course, at Pari...
Alberta, Canadian Rockies, Mt. Athabasca. On 12 August Burl Mostul and Dan Hale (39) were climbing on the N.W. Ridge of Mt. Athabasca. Mr. Hale lost his footing and slid down approximately 1,000 feet in an avalanche shute. The two had been roped u...