Tsaranoro Atsimo, new route in 2004. The Tsaranoro Massif is now well known and attracts climbers from all over the world, because of its beautiful summits and walls of excellent compact granite. An hour on a jeep from the last village of Ambalava...
Manaslu Attempt. Under the leadership of Jaime García Orts, a 12-man Spanish expedition made an attempt on Manaslu by the Japanese first-ascent route of 1956 on the east. The first post-monsoon expedition to Manaslu was given up on October 13 afte...
FALL ON ROCK, ROCK and MUD SLIDESColorado, Crestone NeedleDuane (57) and Linda Buhrmester (56), both experienced climbers, walked in from the trailhead to Upper Colony Lake on July 26 in the mid afternoon. They camped there for the night with the ...
Atomfjella Mountains, new German-Swiss routes. I first took note of Svalbard, as Spitzbergen is called in Norwegian, in 1999 when reading an expedition report about mountaineering in Atomfjella. Spitzbergen lies a mere 1,500km from the North Pole ...
PROTECTION PLACEMENT AND JUDGMENT—Washington, Cascades, Mt. Index. At 9:30 a.m., 17 August 1974, Ed Vervoort and John Rice were climbing the north face route on the North Peak of Mt. Index, a climb rated Class 4/Grade III in Beckey’s Cascade Alpin...
Cascade Alpine Guide, by Fred Beckey. Seattle: The Mountaineers. 1973. 354 pages, 100 pages of maps, sketches and photographs. $9.95.This edition covers routes from Columbia River to Stevens Pass. Unlike most mountain guidebooks, no pretense has b...
Princeton. In the fall of 1948 a small group of climbers in the Princeton Outing Club felt the need of a separate mountaineering club, recognized by the other clubs as a distinct organization. Throughout the fall, on week ends, they exploited the ...
Namcha Barwa. Japanese and Chinese climbers reconnoitered Namcha Barwa, the world’s highest unclimbed peak, in November and December, 1990 and reached 6900 meters on Naipun. A Sino-Japanese attempt in the autumn of 1991 reached 7460 meters, but un...
Mount Formidable, West Face. On September 6, Stim Bullitt and I made the first ascent of the west face of this picturesque but remote mountain in the North Cascades. We found the rock sounder and the climbing more enjoyable here than on the north ...
New Climbs in the Northern PicketsW. B. Spickard, M.D.Tucked away in the northern part of the western rampart of the Cascades, between Mount Shuksan and Ross Lake in the state of Washington, is some of the wildest, ruggedest, and least visited cou...
Trimukhi Parbat. A 12-member Indian Army team, led by Major Bhajan Singh Bisht, approached the Jadhganga valley via Uttarkashi and Bhairon Ghati. They first climbed Nandi (5795 meters, 19,012 feet), and then Trimukhi Parbat East (6280 meters, 20,6...
The Mountaineers. The core climbing programs of The Mountaineers proceed with the same popularity as ever. These programs place high value in having a “stewardship” requirement and promoting a leave-no-trace ethic. Participants have many opportuni...
Hainablak East Tower, Attempt. (This account clarifies an inaccurate report from last year’s volume; see 1998 AAJ, pp. 321-322.) On our three-man, four-week Karakoram big wall expedition, we attempted the unclimbed 1400-meter northeast face of Hai...
FALL ON ROCKWest Virginia, Seneca Rocks, West FaceOn August 20, Kel Young was leading “The Prune” at Seneca Rocks. He had placed protection above the small ledge which is just below the finish of the second pitch. After a couple of moves, he fell,...
Ausangate, Southeast Ridge 1980. With Peruvian Erasmo Aparicio, I made a new route on Ausangate, the southeast ridge. This 500-meter- high snow and ice ridge and face averaged 50° We belayed in the upper portion because of bad snow and ice conditi...
Considered too blank and featureless for climbing, the massive south face of the Drip Buttress remained untouched for years. Bruce Anderson and I took it to task over a three-day extended push in the early summer of 1992, establishing Degrees of F...
FALL ON SNOW—FAULTY USE OF CRAMPONSOregon, Mount Hood, South SideOn April 4, a climber (32) was glissading below Crater Rock when his crampons snagged on hard snow, resulting in a fractured tibia. (Source: Jeff Sheetz, Portland Mountain Rescue)(Ed...
Everest Summer Attempt. Nick Banks and then Iain Peter from the UK led five Britons, a New Zealander, an Australian and a Dane on the North Col route of Everest. The leader, one member and three Sherpas reached a high point of 8200 meters on July ...
Voyager Rock, Space Probe. This is the first dome east of the southern portion of Courtright Reservoir. A multi-crowned pine below the south face is near the start of the route Alan Swanson and I climbed. After a short third-class section, we clim...
Washington, Mox Peak. On August 20, Warren B. Spickard (43), R. Duke Watson, and Phil E. Sharpe were descending after the second ascent of Mox Peak. They were on a moderately steep pitch. Watson had a solidsitting hip belay on Spickard as he climb...