Portrait of an Explorer. Hiram Bingham, Discoverer of Machu Picchu. Alfred M. Bingham. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, 1989. 141 black and white photographs, 6 sketch maps, 382 pages. Hardbound. $29.95.Although Hiram Bingham was not the d...
Downward Bound: A Mad Guide to Rock Climbing, by Warren “Batso Harding, with illustrations by Beryl “Beasto” Knath. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1975. 204 pages, numerous photos and drawings. Price $7.95.Climbing autobiographies have never bec...
Kyajo Ri (6,186m), southwest ridge, possible first solo ascent; Teningbo (5,839m), first known ascent, north face. Eight Czech and Slovak climbers, led by Martin Otta, visited the Kyajo Glacier. Our aim was to repeat the southwest ridge of Kyajo R...
FALL ON ICE, UNABLE TO SELF-ARREST, PLACED NO PROTECTION, EXCEEDING ABILITIES, FATIGUE Oregon, Mount Hood, Leutholds CouloirOn June 3, 1994, a party of five was climbing Leutholds Couloir on the west side of Mount Hood. The group reached the “hour...
The East Peak of LaPerouse and Mount BerthaLarry Nielson, UnaffiliatedWORKING in the Fairweather Range for an exploration mining company gave Dusan Jagersky and me the perfect opportunity for some exciting climbs. We made a few minor ascents such ...
Mount Bryce, Center Peak, Northwest Face. Hale and Winner climbed this peak’s 3600-foot northwest face in August. Approach was made via the Saskatchewan and Castleguard Glaciers. Instead of descending to Bryce Creek, a traverse was made left from ...
On November 3-4 Cas van den Gevel and I climbed the south-southeast face of Singu Chuli. We reached the south ridge at 6,350m but found the crest above so heavily fluted and corniced that we deemed it too dangerous to continue to the summit.Our ba...
FALL ON ROCK, PLACED INADEQUATE PROTECTION, PROTECTION PULLED OUT, NO HARD HAT, MISCOMMUNICATION Nevada, Juniper Canyon, Red RocksOn November 11, three climbers were ascending Olive Oil (5.7), a seven pitch route in Juniper Canyon and were on the ...
High Himalaya: Unknown Valleys. Harish Kapadia. Indus Publishing Co., New Delhi, 1993. 335 pages, 17 pen-and-ink drawings, 24 maps. $30.The mail has just arrived. Harish Kapadia has graciously sent me a copy of his new book. I am swamped with work...
The Kangchenjunga Adventure, by F. S. Smythe, Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London, England, 1930. 404 pp. and 48 plates. 16/s.This brilliant book by the author of Climbs and Ski-Runs is the story of what looked like a forlorn enterprise from the outset....
Wyoming, Grand Teton National Park, Symmetry Spire (1)— On July 1, Fritz Ermarth (19) and Greg Engstrom (19) were ascending the Durrance Ridge. Weather and climbing conditions were excellent. At approximately 3:30 p.m. Ermarth began the lead on th...
Ausangate, South Subsummit. After acclimatization, on August 13 we climbed the moraine of the glacier which comes off the south face of Ausangate and then traversed west through difficult ice slabs to the foot of a sérac barrier which crosses the ...
UNKNOWN ILLNESS Alaska, Mt. McKinleyOn July 27 at 5 p.m., I was contacted by Cliff Hudson of Hudson Air Service, Talkeetna, reporting a sick Japanese climber at 16,000 feet on the West Rib of Mt. McKinley. Ranger Bob Gerhard, on patrol at 16,000 f...
Gothic Arches Buttress, Brazos River Box Canyon. The virtually unknown box canyon of the Brazos River in northern New Mexico is one of the most spectacular gorges in all of North America. The east-facing wall of the canyon rises 2200 feet above th...
STRANDED, INEXPERIENCE, INADEQUATE CLOTHING, DARKNESS, WEATHERCalifornia, Yosemite Valley, Royal ArchesOn May 28, Kevin Calvert (18) and Kacee Fujinami (19) were benighted while descending Royal Arches. They were able to complete the descent early...
The Ascent of Mt. St. Agnes(Alaska, 1938)Bradford WashburnTOWERING in a broad arc about the deep fjords of Prince William Sound stand the Chugach Mountains, magnificent western ramparts of the St. Elias Range. Although three of its peaks rise to h...
Mountaineering in AntarcticaDee Molenaar, Robert A. Wharton, Jr., John SchuttALTHOUGH 98% of its surface is covered by ice, the Antarctic continent contains numerous mountain ranges that have been mapped both aerially and from the ground. The adve...
The North Face of Lone EagleROBERT M. ORMESLONE EAGLE PEAK, formerly called Lindbergh, lies in the head of a valley above Monarch Lake, near Granby, Colo. It is a curiosity among mountains, for though unquestionably one of the most imposing peaks ...
Everest’s Northeast Ridge Motomo Ohmiya, Sangaku Doshikai Club, Japan and Valeri Khrishchaty, Kazakhstan*On MAY 17, 1982, BRITISH CLIMB - ers Joe Tasker and Pete Boardman disappeared high on the northeast ridge of Mount Everest. They were last sig...
El Gigante, Yawira Batú. During the first days of May, Cecilia Buil (Spain) and Carlos Garcia (Mexico) made the second ascent of El Gigante in Chihuahua, Mexico. Their initial plan was to attempt a first ascent in the canyon of La Sinforosa, locat...