Mount Russell, Beowulf’s Revenge. In October Fred Beckey, Mark Fielding and I climbed the farthest line to the north on Russell’s west face. The route starts among ledges in a semi-rotten chimney approximately 100 feet left of an obvious large rig...
Emerging trends among Chinese climbers. China not only has the tallest mountains in the world, it also has some of the most technically challenging, least explored, and most varied. What does this all mean for a burgeoning Chinese middle class tha...
Antarctica: Mountains, Glaciers, Ice, Ice and More IceRobert A. Wharton, Jr., George M. Simmons, Jr. and Bruce C. Parker*oNE OF THE MORE remote and desolate regions left on this planet is Antarctica. The Antarctic continent, twice the size of Aust...
The Alps 90 Years Ago. In the President’s Address (A. A. J. iv, 474, line 12), one should read “Zermatt” for “the Alps.” Needless to say, before this time, other major peaks such as Mont Blanc (1786), Gross Glockner (1800), Order (1804), Jungfrau ...
Flatiron Butte, Sawtooth Ridge Area. This summit is an isolated rock crag on the east flank of the Sierra Nevada, quite hidden by ramparts of other ridges. Located north of Sawtooth Ridge, the formation offers steep rock-climbing potential, but th...
K2—1938William P. HouseAT the N.W. end of the main chain of the Himalaya Mountains is the little-known range of the Karakoram. It lies between the Indus River and Chinese Turkestan and occupies most of northern Baltistan, the northernmost province...
Mt. Dade, North Pillar, Previously Unreported. Paul Linaweaver, Ron McTarque and I climbed the North Pillar (IV 5.10, 1,200') of Mt. Dade in September, 1995. The route ascends directly up the north pillar. It is unclear if ours was the first ascen...
Tawoche, east ridge, winter ascent. For the first time in 62 years it snowed in Kathmandu. This same storm also dumped more than a meter of snow in the Khumbu, making for an interesting few days. It was February 2007 and Kristoffer Erickson, Seth ...
Climbs in Soviet Asia, 1965. According to Der Berkamerad, on August 12, 1965 twenty-nine members of a Lithuanian-Esthonian expedition to the Pamir-Alai Range climbed Pik Lenin (23,406 feet) from the Krilenko Pass via the first-ascent route. Pik Ko...
Memphis Mountaineers, Inc. 1989 proved to be a very productive year for the Memphis Mountaineers. The total membership of 66 included 42 regular members in the Memphis, Tennessee, area, eight honorary members, and 16 associate members scattered th...
First Ascent: Pioneering Mountain Climbs. Stephen Venables. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008. Numerous color and black and white photographs. 192 pages. $45.In this lavish coffee-table book we read about the first ascent of Mont Blanc, the tragedy...
Ski Mountaineering in Southern CaliforniaWalter MosauerTHIS title may evoke an incredulous smile from distant readers who think of Southern California as the land of all-year bathing beaches, oranges, motion-pictures and occasional earthquakes. Ev...
Korean Mount Everest Expedition. Under the leadership of Young-do Kim, the 16-man expedition left Kathmandu in four or five parties between July 19 and 26. Base Camp was reached on August 9 at 17,725 feet, 22 days after the first party had left Ka...
Jankho Laya. Our expedition was made up of Pierre Faussurier, Daniel Barrera, Dr. Patrick Mure, my wife Francine and me as leader. We climbed northeast of Laguna Khara Kkota from May 18 to 31. We left La Paz on May 16 on the road to the Mina Fabul...
The West Face of Howser SpireGALEN A. ROWELLON a stormy night in 1967,I was with Fred Beckey waiting out the rain in the plastic shelters at Boulder Camp in the Bugaboos. Climbers were already sardined into the hut. The door opened and in with the...
FALL ON ROCK—CAM HOOK CAME OFF, NO HARD HAT, INADEQUATE PROTECTIONUtah, Zion National Park, Forbidden WallOn December 27, V G. (25) and L. E. (20) obtained a backcountry permit to climb Moonlight Buttress. Whether they couldn’t find their intended...
Pik Pobedy in WinterEduard Myslovski and Valery Khrishchaty, Soviet Mountaineering FederationFINALLY, ALL FOUR SOVIET 7000-meter peaks have been climbed in winter. The first winter ascents were attempted in the 1960s. These were expeditions to the...
High Trails: A Guide to the Cascade Crest Trail, by Robert H. Wills. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1962. 157 pages. Maps. Price $3.00.High Trails serves its narrow purpose: trail description of the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington, mil...
Attempt on Yerupajá, Cordillera Huayhuash. On July 8 Jorge Ruiz Luque, Eduardo Klenk, Carlos Comesaña and I established Base Camp on Carhuacocha. We set up another camp at 18,000 feet on the Yerupajá- Siulá plateau where we did not stay for any le...
Solimana, Cordillera Occidental. Accompanied by Julián Blanco Herrera of Cuzco, Peru, the German Paul Götz and another person, I made a first attempt at the end of June to climb the last unclimbed 6000-meter peak in the south of Peru, Solimana (20...