Mount Eisenhower, Southwest face. When the Calgary Mountain Club erected a bivouac hunt on Mount Eisenhower in 1967 I predicted that the southwest face would see a lot more climbing. The following new routes were put up in 1968: (a) Bass Buttress ...
Gasherbrum I Attempts. Eight Tibetan climbers under the leadership of Samdruk (who had climbed Everest in 1975), having succeeded on Gasherbrum II, reached only the Gasherbrum La (6500 meters) on Hidden Peak. Berbeka, Carlos Carsolio, Ed Viesturs ...
Tashi Lapcha. B. K. Sthapit and I. Bahadur established an all-Nepalese expedition altitude record when they reached the summit of Tashi Lapcha (21,000 feet).
Utah, Storm Mountain Practice Area. On November 26 Paul Burton (22), Carietta Ybarguen (21), and Galen Jorgenson (19) were climbing on Storm Mountain. They had climbed up about 150 feet and had stopped to rest before turning back because of the di...
Staunings Alps, East Greenland. Our expedition of ten men operated in the Roslin Glacier area from July to September. Projects included the determination of valley-glacier depths, mapping by plane table and theodolite, oxygen-isotope analysis of i...
Blockhouse, East Face Route. On June 14 Ron Cotman and I completed an aesthetic, complicated route on the Blockhouse’s east face, in Leavenworth’s Cashmere Crags group, accessed by the Hook Creek drainage in the Icicle Canyon. Our original ascent ...
FALLING ICEAlaska, Mount McKinley, Mount JohnsonAt 1500 on June 8, Jeff Benowitz (30) and partner Chris Turiano (29) started climbing a new route on the East Buttress of Mt. Johnson. Turiano was leading approximately 100 feet up the route when fal...
Nuptse, North Face Attempt. We aimed to climb the north face of Nuptse (25,850 feet) from the Western Cwm without Sherpa support and without the use of fixed ropes. A few weeks before departure, a team experienced in light-weight expeditioning eme...
Symposium Rock, New Practice Area. This newly “discovered” granite buttress rivals the Castle Rock of Tumwater Canyon near Leavenworth. It has been named Symposium Rock and there are a variety of routes on fair to excellent diorite. It is located ...
Baruntse Winter Ascent. As we go to press, we receive news of the first winter ascent of Baruntse by a Japanese expedition from Hokkaido led by Kazuo Hayashi. After an approach up the Barun Glacier, they set up Base Camp at 16,350 feet on December...
Cordillera de Cocapata, Exploratory Climbing. My attention was drawn to the Cordillera de Cocapata near Cochabamba by Evelio Echevarría’s description of its granite peaks as a potential “rock climbers’ playground” (see “Cordillera de Cocapata, Bol...
Half Dome, Growing Up. In July Sean Jones and Sarah Watson completed Growing Up (5.13a A0), a 21-pitch new route up the center of the largely overlooked south face of Half Dome. The route begins with the last unclimbed crack line in the Great Arch...
Numbur, Rolwaling Himal. The Himalayan Expedition of Chiba University consisted of six Japanese: Makoto Numata, leader, Kazumoto Suzuki, sub-leader, Kyoji Yoda, Koichiro Shimada, Hiroshi Matsuo, Kodzo Kohama, and one Swiss guest: A. P. Hirsbrunner...
Langshisha Ri. A nine-man, two-woman Japanese expedition made the second ascent of Langshisha Ri (6300 meters, 20,670 feet), using the same route, the south face, climbed by other Japanese in the spring. On October 6 the leader Shozo Terakawa and ...
The Colorado Mountain Club. Mountaineering: Our schools, particularly the spring schools of Basic and Intermediate Mountaineering continue to attract sizable classes—150 for the Basic and 40 for the Intermediate. We have had no serious accidents o...
A Necklace of Slings. Dave Gregory. The Ernest Press, 1995. 181 pages. Line drawings. £15.Dave Gregory gives us a real potpourri: personal narrative, fiction, a little poetry, even a comic, pseudo-scientific treatise on cooking porridge. I found t...
Pegish Zom. The Prague Badhakshan Expedition was led by Dr. Václav Lachout. Zdenek Brabec, Zdenek Filla, Dobroslaw Metelka, Petr Mares, Antonin Srb, and Jaromir Wolf also took part. They made the following ascents: Kohe Kabul (17,287 feet; Wala pe...
East Huey Spire, Riders on the Storm. In July, after five days of travel from Colorado, Evan Stevens and I unloaded our gear from the plane at Glacier Lake and trekked through three miles of hell. After losing the “trail,” we took six hours of bus...
Purcell Range of British ColumbiaBugaboo Group. Under the leadership of George MacGowan a party of the Seattle Mountaineers visited this area in July, 1940, ascending most of the important summits. They suggest that Crescent Spire is not higher th...
Slesova Peak, Moroz Route, Ascent. In the Russian Mountaineering Championships, third place was taken by the Moscow team “Treksport” (S. Pugachev, leader, T. Akhmegkhanov, A. Guceva, S. Kovalev, A. Lastochkiy, and I. Pekhtepov) who climbed the Mor...