FALL ON ICE, INADEQUATE BELAY, NO PROTECTION,INEXPERIENCECalifornia, Mount ShastaOn March 29, 1987, John Hart (38), Richard Bennett (41), and Jean Pitney (38) were on a roped ascent of the Hotlum–Bolam Glacier at the 3450 meter level when the lead...
FALL ON ROCK, RAPPEL ERROR-WORN HARNESS BELAY LOOP BROKECalifornia, Yosemite Valley, Leaning TowerOn October 23, Todd Skinner (48) and his partner Jim Hewitt were rappelling fixed lines from the Jesus Built My Hotrod route after an attempt at free...
Ganesh II, South Face. Rick Allen and I reached Base Camp at 4300 meters below the 2500-meter-high (8000-foot-high) south face of Ganesh II on September 28. We were not alone as a large Swiss party was already established and making an attempt on ...
Mount Rainier, Direct Russell Cliff. On July 7 to 8 the first direct ascent of Russell Cliff was accomplished by Jim Springer, Dean Bentley, and me, all seasonal NPS rangers; with the support of Gordon Ball of Seattle. The route follows the 1960 R...
Cragtree Crags, East Summit, 1991. Extending west from Mount Chamberlain and above both Crabtree Lakes is a long ridge containing a number of faces, arêtes and buttresses. Just west of the scree-filled gully that separates Mount Chamberlain from t...
Colorado, Wellington Lake, The Castle. On 1 August George Long (15) and Larry Davis ( 15), members of Scout Troop 204 of Denver, had climbed the Castle. At about 15:50 they started down the rocks on the north side by the “pinnacle”. They each took...
The Volcano Purace (15,420 feet) in Colombia was climbed last summer by W. Jenks Woolston of Chestnut Hill, Pa., who was on a collecting trip in that region. The climb was made from Purace village, about twenty or twenty-five miles from Popayan in...
Rock and Rope, by Showell Styles. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. 174 pages, 9 photographs. Price: 25s.Mr. Styles recognizes two kinds of rock climbers: the “tiger”, or ace who concentrates on technique, and the “rabbit”, who climbs for enjoyment. ...
Shivling Tragedy and Ascent of Southwest Ridge. After a three-day walk Australians Graeme Hill, Jon Muir, my sister Belgian Véronique Koch and I got to Base Camp on April 24. There was a lot of snow after the heaviest winter snowfall in ten years....
Bandaka. Hirosaki University’s expedition was led by Sumindo Ha- nada. They left Kabul on July 9 and reached Keron on the 17th via Hazarat Said. They established Base Camp on the 19th at 13,800 feet in the Sakhi valley. They then placed three camp...
McKinley, Entire South Buttress. Parts of the South Buttress of McKinley (Denali) have been climbed before, but starting from the airstrip on the Kahiltna Glacier on May 4, Mark Asprey, Ron Bauer, Marcus Brown, Tahoe Rowland, Mike Vanderbeek and T...
Everest Southwest Face Attempt. A Korean expedition led by Park Young-Bae had hoped to climb Everest via the southwest face. On October 11, they reached their high point of 7770 meters.Elizabeth Hawley
Domelands, Bunded Cliffs, Stegosaurus Dome, Naked Lunch. In July, John Mattashed and I made a trip into the Banded Cliffs, a series of seven domes southwest of Columbia Dome. We climbed the dome second-most from the south, which we named Stegosaur...
Peak October, October Victory. In the Ak-Su Valley three Czech climbers—M. Holecek, D. Stastny, and O. Vasek—established a new route on the northwest face of peak October (3,805m). They called the ascent October Victory, 8+/A4. The route was climb...
Annapurna I Attempt. An expedition of the Japanese Alpine Club’s Shinano section was led by Shaigeki Tsukamoto and Yukahisa Asawa. The 11-man group was attempting a new northeast-buttress route and then switched to the British Army route of 1970. ...
Rock Tower, Kedarnath. On August 27, Stefano Righetti and Maurizio Giordani got to the summit of the Rock Tower, a granite pillar of 6150 meters (20,177 feet), which lies south of Kedarnath Peak. It was attempted in 1989 by Righetti, GianCarlo Gra...
Human Performance Physiology and Environmental Medicine at Terrestrial Extremes. Kent B. Pandolf, Michael N. Sawka and Richard R. Gonzalez, editors. Benchmark Press, Indianapolis, 1988. 637 pages, charts, tables. $40.00.In 1986, the Army Research ...
FALL ON ROCK, PITONS PULLED OUT Illinois, Mississippi Palisades State ParkOn August 29, 1993, Ted Rogers (25) fell 30 feet from a climb he was on. The pins he had placed “gave way.” The extent of his injuries is not known. (Source: From an article...
A French Expedition, sponsored by the G. H. M. and the C. A. F., was also in the Caucasus this past summer. It was composed of Raymond Gaché, Jacques Lagarde, Robert Tézenas du Montcel, and Lucien Valluet. They arrived in Naltshik on August 8th an...
Shisha Pangma. An international commercial expedition organized by Hauser Excursionen and led by Yugoslav Bogdan Brakus climbed the normal northeast route on Shisha Pangma. For better acclimatization, the 16-member group first drove from Kathmandu...