Koteswar and P 20,214. A ten-man team from Giganta was led by Asok K. Roy Chowdhury. Unprecedented floods forced all other expeditions out of the region but this group pressed on to reach Base Camp at 15,500 feet at the confluence of the Raktvarn ...
Noshaq Ski Expedition. Dr. Roland Schulz, leader of the expedition of the Academic Alpine Club of Innsbruck, had to escort back to Kabul their doctor, Jörg Schmidl, who had contracted encephalitis. Meanwhile, on July 11, Karl Gabl, Gerd Ganter, Ge...
Fortress, You Enjoy Myself. On a rainy July 20 Pat Goodman and I, with financial support from a Balance Bar Grant, were helicoptered into the Vampire Spires, getting dropped off 30m from what would be our home for the next 24 days. We immediately ...
Wrinkled Lady, South Face. Looking north from Whitney Portal, one can see a prominent pyramid crossing the ridge, deeply corrugated with vertical cracks and books. Joe Brown and I made a direct climb from the roadhead on May 24 and 25, 1969. Becau...
Mountain Passages, by Jeremy Bernstein. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. 278 pages. Price $12.50.In Mountain Passages, Jeremy Bernstein has collected eight of his articles —previously published in the New Yorker, the New York...
Ancohuma, Illampu, Haucaña, Cordillera Real. Our expedition of 19 Aus- trians left La Paz on July 25 for Millipaya. From there we went by truck to Mina Ancohuma. The next morning we traversed for two hours to Base Camp at 4500 meters below the Nev...
Battle Range, Southern Selkirks. A party of 14, plus the notorious canine alpinist, Chugach, under the leadership of Bill Putnam, visited the Melville group of the Battle Range in August. Notable accomplishments were the reconstruction of the Glac...
Aguja Mermoz, Northwest Face, Second Ascent. Raúl Storino, Guillermo Raynié and I made the second ascent of Aguja Mermoz by the northwest face. From Base Camp at Piedra del Fraile we went to our first bivouac at the foot of the rock bands on which...
AVALANCHE, POOR POSITION, INADEQUATE EQUIPMENTNew Hampshire, Mount Washington, Tuckerman RavineTom Striker and Tony Tulip, hiked up in to Tuckerman Ravine on November 29. The first in the ravine, they hiked to the base of an open book on the right...
On the Brink on Broad PeakCarlos Carsolio, MexicoBlackest night, silence … As Iapproach the edge, I feel frustrated by my sluggishness. I unconsciously tighten my grip on the shafts of my ice tools. The beam of my headlamp is lost in the unending ...
Areri and Chuchubalstering, Various Ascents. Also in the Hindu Raj massif (see above) was a group selected from previous members of the Jeunes Alpinistes FFME. Accompanied by Emmanuel Guy, they profited from the logistics of the UIAA expedition wh...
Crossing the Northern Continental Icecap. The expedition of Rokko Jesuit High School in Kobe consisted of Isao Ikawa, Mimio Matsunaga, Shuji Iwata, Hiroyuki Maekawa and myself as leader. On December 22, 1968 we all gathered in Puerto Eden and wait...
Paddle to the Peaks Expedition, first ascents between Maniitsoq and the Evigkels Fjord. Althea Rogers, Kelly Ryan, and I spent 65 days exploring the magnificent region between Kangerlussuaq and Maniitsoq. Mountains here rise directly from the sea,...
The Games Climbers Play, edited by Ken Wilson. London: Diadem Books Ltd., 1978. 688 pages, 35 black-and-white plates, 24 maps and cartoons. £ 8.50 (UK).The implicit premise behind Ken Wilson’s hefty new anthology is that the journal article is the...
On July 3 Viktor Mlinar, Tomaz Zerovnik, Aritza Monasterio, and I left Huaraz and took a bus to Chiquian, where we hired donkeys to get to the Cordillera Huayhuash. From July 4-6 we marched to base camp, which we placed at 4,300m, half an hour fro...
Yanashinga, West Face. One could consider Yanashinga (5,250m) the most technical and dizzying mountain of the Tíclio group. It is located 135km east of Lima and has only two routes and not a single repeat. The central highway reaches 4,818m, and t...
This is the fifth annual report of the American Alpine Club Safety Committee and the most encouraging report which the Committee has been able to publish. This Committee has attempted to describe and to make constructive comments on the causes of ...
Baudha. The Aichi University of Education Expedition had as leader Yutaka Nakai, as climbing leader Toshihiko Hanai and three other members. They made the second ascent of Baudha (21,890 feet) by a new route, the southeast ridge. Mixed ice and roc...
The online version of these reports frequently contains additional photos, maps, topos, and extended text. Please visit aaj.americanalpineclub.orgCajon de Maipo, various ascents I flew to Santiago in November with vague plans to make an excursion ...
The Mountaineers. The Seattle Mountaineers climbing program, under the leadership of Barbara McCann, expanded its traditionally alpine program by adding an introductory class on sport climbing. Enrollment in the alpine climbing courses has remaine...