Peineta, Duraznos para Don Quijote, and First Canadian Ascent. In early January, 1997, Guy Edwards and I (Canada) traveled to the Paine region of Chile for two months of some southern summer. On January 17, the skies cleared for long enough to lur...
Crosscut Peak, South Face. The Darren Range in southwest New Zealand is known as the best rock climbing in the country and for the rainfall it receives. It rains on 250 or more days a year. The south face of Crosscut Peak is about 3000 feet high. ...
The Italian Expedition to Persia made a number of climbs of 13,000-ft. peaks in the Zardek-Kuh Group, among others the Shahan Kuh (13,225 ft.) and the Kuh-i-Dinar (14,800 ft.), and found a new route to the summit of Mt. Demavend.
FALL ON ROCK, POOR POSITIONNew York, ShawangunksOn April 13, 1985, a man (37) was leading V-3 (5.7) and fell to the ground because his nut pulled while he was testing it. He fractured his wrist. (Source: Tom Scheuer, Senior Ranger, Mohonk Preserve)
Anyemaqen, 1981, Third Ascent. [On page 285 of A.A.J., 1982, details were lacking about two ascents of Anyemaqen. We are grateful for further details sent us by Herr Hupfauer, which arrived too late to be published last year.—Editor. ] Our Austro-...
Huandoy Sur, No Fiesta Hoy Dia. I noticed the northeast face of Huandoy Sur the first time I visited Peru, in 1990. It is clearly visible from the approach to Pisco, looking steep and difficult. Five years later I climbed a new route on it, Oro de...
Ticlla (5,897m) is highest nevado of the Cordillera de Yauyos (east of Lima), located in the Reserva Paisajistica Nor Yauyos Cocha and accessed from the town of Miraflores (3,600m), whose residents call the peak “Cotoni.” French climbers Jean F...
Doonerak and Other Peaks, Brooks Range. For three weeks in August, a Sierra Club climbing group visited the north fork of the Koyukuk region, which was initially explored by Robert Marshall in the 1930s. Despite extensive climbing in the area, Mar...
FALL ON ROCK, INADEQUATE PROTECTIONAlberta, Rocky Mountains, Mount RundleOn August 11,1989, about 1400, Mark D., a very experienced climber, was leading the fifth pitch of a route called Dropout on the east end of Mount Rundle. He pulled out a lar...
Everest, First Ascent by a Married Couple and First Yugoslav Woman. Ours was a joint expedition of the Trieste (Italy) Slovene Alpine Club and the Slovene Alpine Association. We were Yugoslavs Andrej Štremfelj, his wife Marija, Dr. Žare Guzej, Jan...
Pamir Mountains. The 1984 American Pamir expedition was in the Soviet Union from July 12 to August 11. After a brief visit to Moscow, we flew, drove and trekked 2700 miles into the Pamir range. Rick Nolting and Barry Nash made a five-day ascent of...
Bolivian Climbing in 1994. We suffered losses in 1994. A Pole died on Huayna Potosí on March 31 and three Austrians were caught by bad weather on Illimani on June 18. Two of them perished. On a more positive note, Bolivian guides Gregorio and Edua...
Cho Oyu Attempt. A six-man team of Spanish Basques was led by Juan Ignacio Lorente and included Angel Rosen, Luis María Saenz de Olazagoitia, José Urbieta, Benjamín Ruiz de Infante and Miguel Gómez. They attempted the standard route from the north...
Nanga Parbat Winter Attempt, 1992-3. Our team was composed of climbers Mlle Monique Loscos and me, four trekkers and liaison officer Ashraf Aman. We hoped to climb Nanga Parbat for the first time in winter by the Schell route on the Rupal Face. We...
The Mountains of Europe. Kev Reynolds, Editor; various contributors. Oxford Illustrated Press, Haynes Publishing Group, Starkford-near-Yeovil, Somerset, England; Haynes Publications, Ltd., Newbury Park, California, 91320. 207 pages, 51 color and 1...
Night Climb: The Story of the Skiing Tenth, by Frank Harper.216 pages. New York: Longman’s Green, 1946. $2.50.Night Climb: The Story of the Skiing Tenth is listed by its publishers as a factual novel which “compresses many stirring episodes in the...
THE KICHATNAS are located approximately 45 miles southwest of the Denali massif in the Alaska Range. Although the peaks are all under 9000 feet in elevation, what they lack in altitude, they make up for in steepness and intensity. The Kichatnas ha...
Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range. Fred Beckey. Portland and Seattle: Oregon Historical Society and University of Washington Press, 2003. 568 PAGES. $40.00.Fred Beckey, world-renowned climber and historian...
On July 14, with all our climbing equipment stuck in Urumqi customs, Ales Holc, Igor Kremser, and I began acclimatizing in the Xuelian Massif. With only trekking shoes we were restricted to climbing lower snowless peaks from the south. Northwest f...
FALL ON ROCK, PROTECTION FAILED, LOOSE ROCKNew Hampshire, Cannon Cliff, Whitney-GilmanOn October 29, Daniel Becker (19) and Jonathan Waldman (19) were switching leads on a very crowded Whitney-Gilman with multiple parties above and below The party...