Wyoming, Grand Tetons, Symmetry Spire. On 26 July Michael Feldman (33) and Lydia Sims (15) decided to leave the north snow couloir on Symmetry Spire due to their limited experience on snow. Sims led the first pitch on the rock until it became too ...
FALL ON ROCK, INADEQUATE BELAY, CUT ROPE WITH KNIFE- PANIC, INADEQUATE EXPERIENCEColorado, Rocky Mountain National Park, North’s CliffsOn May 11, 1991, at 1530, an accident occurred while the Grand County Search and Rescue Team was practicing at A...
Changtse, Northeast Ridge Attempt. We arrived at Everest Base Camp after a five-day motorcade adventure from Lhasa. Initially blessed with good weather, we were able to establish Camp I and Advance Base at 18,000 and 20,000 feet on September 13 an...
Ribbon Falls Amphitheater, Hole in the Head. Rick Carlton Studley III and I climbed a 1,000-foot variation to the route Hole in the Sky located in Ribbon Falls Amphitheater this September. The variation started out on Reason Beyond Insanity and he...
RAPPEL FAILURE—Alaska, Alaska Range, Mt. Denali. On 27 May 1974, a party of eight was descending after a successful climb up the Cassin Route on the south face of Mt. Denali. On the final pitch down to the head of the Northeast Fork of the Kahiltn...
Gasherbrum II Attempt by Andorrans. The first Andorran expedition to the mountains of Asia had five Andorrans: Gerard Olm, leader, Gerard Montestruc, Nadia Alex, Jaume Espunyes and Oriol Riba; and five Spaniards resident in Andorra: Dr. Xabier Rov...
TIMOTHY IFOR MORGAN LEWIS1944-1984Tim Lewis, editor of Mountain from 1978 to 1984, died of cancer on August 23. He changed the magazine’s international scope and style to match a rapidly evolving climbing world and changing tastes.He was bom in Ab...
Washington, Mt. Rainier National Park—On September 5, Mr. David Fredenburg (25) was struck in the face by bounding rock at 1:30 a.m. while climbing from upper Cowlitz Glacier onto Cowlitz Cleaver below Camp Misery. Rock was dislodged by fellow cli...
Baker Rock, West Virginia. On the slopes of Elkhorn Ridge, a few miles E. of Petersburg, W. Va., erosion has exposed a remarkable formation of cliffs and pinnacles, locally known as Baker Rock. This quartzite expanse for many years excited the cur...
Winterland Tirol. By Robert Löbl. Trilingual text by Heinrich Kher. 80 illustrations by Viktor Herzner. Innsbruck: Tiroler Graphik, 1956. Price 80 Sch.Uniform with the writer’s "Tirol," "Karwendel," and "Kolomiten," we are carried in this book to ...
High Asia: An Illustrated History of the 7,000 Metre Peaks. Jill Neate. The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1989. 213 pages, 140 photographs, 79 in color, 57 maps, and end papers. $46.00.This extremely valuable resource book names 446 peaks between the hei...
Trapecio, South Face. It was reported that in 1997, Francois Baroux, Frédéric Bréhé, Pierre Plaze and Christophe Vigne climbed a line on the south face of Trapecio (5653m) that followed the prominent twisting couloir to the left of the Lowe Route ...
FALL ON ROCK, RAPPEL ERROR—ANCHOR KNOT FAILEDUtah, Wasatch Mountains, Big Cottonwood CanyonOn June 17, Harmer Kirt fell while rappelling at Storm Mountain in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Kirt fell 15 to 20 feet and injured his ankle and wrist. Mr. Kirt ...
Maparaju, 1980. New Zealanders Tony Teeling and Ross Ogden climbed Maparaju (5326 meters, 17,474 feet) by the first-ascent route, the southwest face, in 1980.
California, San Gabriel Mountains, Cucamonga Peak—Dennis Langford (16), Kirk Muscat (17), and Steve Brimhoff (17), of Ontario, California, hiked up Cucamonga Canyon, west of Cucamonga Peak, San Gabriel Mountain, California, early in the week betwe...
Left Twin Brother, Northwest Face, The Promised Land, Previously Unreported. The large, top-to-bottom, crescent-shaped, left-facing dihedral system on the Left Twin Brother’s northwest face marks The Promised Land (VI 5.10 A3, 13 pitches). First a...
FALL ON SNOW AND ICE, CLIMBING UNROPED, NO HARD HATColorado, Longs PeakOn September 16, Brant Kauth called the dispatch office from Longs Ranger Station and reported that his climbing partner, Harvy Schneider (22) had been involved in a climbing a...
FALL ON SNOW—UNABLE TO SELF-ARREST, CLIMBING UNROPED, EXCEEDING ABILITIESColorado, Rocky Mountain National Park, Longs PeakOn October 11, Madrone Coopwood (24) slid 200 feet on Lambs Slide at Longs Peak. Coopwood struck the rocks at the base of th...
Mount Bertha, Northeast Ridge. On July 14 Kevin Haberl, Peter Mair, Bruce Blackwell and I reached the summit of Mount Bertha (3110 meters, 10,204 feet) via its northeast ridge. The lightweight expedition was entirely self-supported from kayaks. Ou...
Montana, Ravalli County. In mid-June, Thomas Peterson (15) and Gene Saycuich (23) were climbing in a mountain range in Ravalli County in pursuit of pictures and game. They had covered considerable territory and when they decided to return they too...