P 20,370, Tons Valley. This peak, west of Swagarohini, was attempted by a Dutagar expedition led by Amula Sen.Sohli S. Mehta, Himalayan Club
The Mountaineers. The 36th Annual Climbing Program in 1980 was one of coalition of philosophy for the club. Several questions which had arisen in previous years were formally answered with stated policy by the Climbing Committee.A reaffirmation of...
Jannu, North Face, Attempt. We (Fyodorov, Grekov, Mariev, Chabaline, Tukhvatulin, Slepnyov and Raljabov) arrived in Kathmandu September 2 with the goal of climbing the north face of Jannu. By September 11, the first team members arrived at Base Ca...
Manirang I and II, Spiti. With 40 paratroopers, I ran a training camp plus expedition in Spiti from August to October. We left the road near the 1000- year-old Tabo Monastery. Crossing the Spiti River to the western side, we walked up the Yangcho ...
The Colorado Mountain Club. The C.M.C. experienced a healthy growth rate in 1982, adding a thirteenth Colorado Group and conducting more than 2000 trips. Present membership totals over 7300.Our outings included a bicycle trip to Holland, a backpac...
Alaska Alpine Club. The format of recent years was followed in 1971 with the continuation of weekly lunch meetings and monthly slide shows. These shows featured everything from caving through white- water expeditions in the Brooks Range to climbin...
Baruntse Attempt. German Hans Eitel unsuccessfully attempted to climb Baruntse by its southeast ridge. He apparently was solo. He reached a high point of 6500 meters on April 11.Elizabeth Hawley
P 6872 (Serei Porkush). English climbers Steve Roberts and Steve Pymmmade the first ascent of P 6872 (22,546 feet), possibly called Serei Porkush, in the Batura region, apparently at the western end of the Batura chain. The other members were Mart...
Spitzkoppe, summary. This stunning granite outcrop in central Namibia has some of Southern Africa’s finest climbing, with bouldering to 14-pitch trad and sport routes, and delicate face climbing to crazy cracks and chimneys. Spitzkoppe is located ...
Ancohuma, 1971. Karl-Otto Ambronn, Gernot Gröbl, Werner Kirsch, Klaus Moelter and I were in the Ancohuma-Illampu massif in July and August of 1971. Our objective was to reconnoiter Ancohuma and make the second ascent of the southwest face of Illam...
Chombu Attempt. A six-man Japanese team from Toyo University, led by Kenshiro Ohtani, was the first foreign expedition allowed to enter this part of Sikkim since World War II. They unsuccessfully attempted Chombu (6362 meters, 20,872 feet) via the...
FALL OR SLIP ON ROCK, FALLING ROCK, FAILURE TO FOLLOW ROUTE Washington, Mount ThompsonOn September 24, 1989, Roberta Mohrholz (32) and Jalen Johansen (32) set out on what was to be a training hike and easy scramble up Mount Thompson. Roberta had l...
Cordillera de Vilcanota. A British expedition consisting of John Jewell, Pat O’Donaghue, Ralph Whitling, and Colin Darbyshire left Sicuari May 19, 1956 to establish Base Camp three and a half days later, at 16,000 feet, just south of the Chimboya ...
El Toro, Central Pillar, “El Sendero Luminoso, ” El Potrero Chico, Nuevo León. On March 30, Kurt Smith, Pete Peacock and I summited on the central pillar of El Toro, a 2000-foot limestone spire. Kevin Gallagher, Terry Christenson and I had bolted ...
AndesA German party consisting of Dr. Kinzl (leader), Hans Schweizer, Karl Schmid, Siegfried Rohrer and Walter Brecht was active in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru this last summer. Schweizer, Schmid and Rohrer completed from the W. the ascent of Ne...
FALL ON LOOSE ROCK, WEATHER, PARTY SEPARATED California, Yosemite Valley, Sentinel RockOn May 31, 1993, at 1630, John McMillan reported his climbing partner, Ian Johnston (27) overdue from descending Sentinel Rock. After climbing the Chouinard/Her...
Nanga Parbat, Schell Route, Rupal Face. Our expedition was composed of Germans Peter Mezger, Volker Stallbohm, Jens Holthusen, Karl Wolfner and me as leader, French Etienne Robein, Alain Cokkinos and Isabelle Leclerc, and Czechs Dr. Volker and Ren...
FALLING ROCK—British Columbia, Southern Selkirks, Mt. Marion. Four climbers were approaching the crest of the ridge of Mt. Marion at about 7,700 feet at 1130 hours on August 3, 1976, and were traversing some moderately steep solid slabs. They were...
Corean Alpine Club expedition leader, Kang Sung-woo, returned to the north face of Cholatse in 2003 after bad weather thwarted an attempt the previous year. In 2002 the intended line had been a new route up the right side of the face but after nea...
Greenland. Paul-Émile Victor, leader of the Expédition Polaire Française, has been for many months recently in western Greenland, E. of Disko Island. With 34 companions, he has been continuing the program of research initiated in 1948 in meteorolo...