Climbing in Cyberspace: An OverviewInternet, surfing, URLs, home pages, World Wide Web, Netscape. Just a couple of years ago hardly anyone would have recognized a single one of these terms. Now they’re household concepts. Use and awareness of the ...
South Howser Tower, Soul Cinders; East Pigeon Feather Peak, Ride the Snafflehound; other activity. During an amazing high pressure system from August 25 to September 4, Renan Ozturk and I climbed two new routes in the Bugaboos. Camped below South ...
1951–19992000GeographicalDistrictsNumber of AccidentsDeathsTotalPersonsInvolvedNumber of AccidentsDeathsTotalPersonsInvolvedCanadaAlberta41612092015622British Columbia271105604418Yukon Territory332673000Ontario35964101Quebec27758305East Arctic7220...
Illimani. Gustavo Iturralde, Moises Unzaga, José de Henestrosa and I joined to make an ascent of the normal route on the south peak of Illimani. On June 20, after five hours of driving on the Mina la Urania road, we reached the shoulder from which...
Axel Heiberg Island, ski traverse and first ascents. Over six weeks, from April 19 to May 31, our team made an unsupported north-to-south traverse of the island. The team consisted of Louise Jarry (Canada), Vicky Lytle (USA/Australia), Sarah Boyle...
Shaksgam ExplorationTilman’s Loop and Gasherbrum Glacier to K2 GlacierKurt Diemberger"THE NEXT MORNING TILMAN arrived. He had managed to reach the Staircase Glacier and to follow it down. In the bad weather, he had seen very little, but it was an ...
Solo Nanga Parbat, by Reinhold Messner. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. 145 illus. including 46 color photographs. Price $19.95.This is Reinhold Messner’s most emotional work. He writes of this remarkable mountaineering achievement as if ...
Biacherahi Tower, Hanispur South and Indian Face Arête, Ascents. The expedition was comprised of Muir Morton (leader), Tom Bridgeland, Sam Chinnery, Alasdair Coull, Neal Crampton, Dave Hollinger, Dan Long and Paul Schweizer. We set up Base Camp in...
Milne Land, first ascent of Orca. Satoshi Kimoto, Taeko and Yasushi Yamanoi made the first ascent of a l,250m-high big wall in northeast Milne Land. It took 17 days during August to complete the 40-pitch route, named Orca, at 5.10+ A2. Yasushi had...
FALL ON ROCK-OFF ROUTE, DARKNESSColorado, Eldorado Canyon, Anthill DirectOn October 21, Angus McInnes (39) and his companion, a young Russian man (17) who had emigrated with his family to the U.S. four months earlier, were climbing Anthill Direct ...
HAROLD WILLIAM TILMAN 1898-1978More than most men, Bill Tilman led several carefully compartmented lives and few were fortunate enough to know even one of them well. Tilman the soldier was commissioned early in World War I at the age of seventeen ...
The biggest news in Patagonia this season was not related to an ascent but to an attempt. David Lama’s attempt to free the Compressor Route was well-publicized, but in spite of his spending close to three months in El Chalten, nothing came of it...
WEATHER, OFF ROUTE, INADEQUATE CLOTHING, HYPOTHERMIA Nevada, Great Basin National ParkOn July 20, 1987, Nelson Keyes, age 58, set out to ascend Wheeler Peak (3982 meters). During the descent, Keyes became disoriented in a severe storm and lost the...
FALLING ROCK–FOOTHOLD CAME OFFNew Hampshire, Cannon Cliff, Moby GrapeOn September 2, my climbing partner Jon Sykes and I had gotten an alpine start to climb on Cannon Cliff hoping to beat the weather coming in with hurricane Ernesto. I was aid-cli...
Oregon: (3) Cascades. .On 1 July 1951 a party of the Obsidians, Inc. of Eugene, Oregon, climbed Mt. Jefferson (10,500 feet). During a rest stop in the ascent, Clarence Bankhead wandered away from the party to the edge of an ice field, where he los...
Mount Steele, North and South Gemini Peaks, Crag Mountain, P 10,478, Mount Sulzer, P 11,000, P 10,400, P 8590, P 8335 and Traverse from Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory to Chitistone River, Alaska. Betty Fletcher, Markus Kellerhals, Peter Stone and I ...
1951–69 U.S.A.1959–69 CAN.U.S.A.1970 CANTerrainRock 777591273Snow 44655354River 3010Unknown1200Ascent or DescentAscent 60062705Descent 56450702Unknown634230Immediate CauseFall or slip on rock43735541Failure of piton27161Falling rock or object12215...
FROSTBITE, DEHYDRATION, AMS, WEATHER Alaska, Mount McKinleyOn May 3, 1989, the Seoul National University Alpine Association expedition, a party of five Korean climbers, flew to Kahiltna base camp to begin a climb of the Cassin Ridge on Mount McKin...
ARNOLD WEXLER1918-1997Arnold Wexler died in his sleep Sunday evening, November 16, of brain cancer. He was 79.Arnold lived in a rarefied atmosphere—that of the research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and of the moun...
LOST IN THE DARKCalifornia, Yosemite, Half DomeIn late September, Aloysius “Apple” Leap (25) and I (Chris Tomasetti, 23) made our first trip to Yosemite for a week and a half of climbing. We’d been climbing pretty intensively for 3-4 years at a go...