On May 27, Ky Hart, Earl Lunceford, and I climbed a new route on the north face of Williams Peak (10,636’). Davy Crockett’s Squirrel Gun is located climber’s left of the super-classic June Couloir (a.k.a. Kitty Litter Couloir, III 5.7), first clim...
On November 21, Kyle McCrohan, Michael Telstad, and I approached an obscure and improbable line in the Cascades that Kyle had noticed on a condition reports webpage. The approach was fairly long for a route about which we had no further knowledge....
Snoqualmie Pass has been extensively explored by skiers, but there is still plenty of untapped mixed-climbing terrain for those keen on adventure. On January 18, Doug Hutchinson and I skied around to the less-explored wes...
I knew I was going to Mexico and that was about it. I didn’t know where I was going to climb or with whom—if anyone at all. I had two haulbags full of bolting equipment, a fresh divorce, and all the time in the world. I decided to head to La Popa ...
Jacob Cook on the crux pitch (5.13b) of Los Naguales. Photo by Andrew Keating ONLY AN HOUR from the hustle of El Potrero Chico, La Popa has a very different feel. Way out in the desert, there’s nobody home except the wild horses and endless,...
Hamish Fleming traversing over Malaspina (3,042m) at sunset. Photo by Alastair McDowell The concept of linking multiple summits in an “enchainment,” birthed in the European Alps, has become increasingly popular. In 2015, Ueli Steck completed...
In July, a team of three Chamonix-based alpinists—Bruno Dupety (France), Giovanni Rossi (Italy), and I (U.K.)—made the first ascent of Pregar (6,185m GPS, 36°36’35.13”N, 75°1’50.74”E) in the Morkhun Valley. We chose the area due to its relatively ...
On July 30, Rolf Larson and I completed a new route on Phantom Peak, climbing its west ridge. Phantom Peak (8,000+’) is in the northern section of the rugged Picket Range of North Cascades National Park, and requires an involved two-day approach. ...
Twin-summited Fyanlabte (6,065m) from Valley 4 Glacier to the north. The first ascensionists followed the right skyline ridge to the west summit. In August, Rajesh Gadgil, Vineeta Muni, Atin Sathe, Rajendra Shinde, and I explored a branch of ...
The Fisher Towers hold a special place in my heart. Composed of Culter sandstone, mud, and a Moenkopi sandstone caprock, they are beautiful but barbaric, delightful but potentially deadly. Each year from 2002–2015, I spent at least one weeklong tr...
On August 7, Taylor Harmon and I left the St. Lawrence Basin ranger station on the east side of the Winds with the intention of establishing a few new routes in the Wolverine Cirque. This area was first visited in August 1988 by Fred Beckey and Ja...
Ruari Macfarlane during the first wintertime Torres-Tasman traverse. Photo by Gavin Lang The New Zealand summer of 2019–’20 was typified by stable spells of warm, dry weather interspersed between significant storm fronts, the worst of which h...
In a career spanning decades, Doug Scott was recognized worldwide as one of the greatest mountaineers of the postwar era. The statistics speak for themselves: over 40 expeditions to Central Asia, countless first ascents all round the world, the fi...
Mark Powell (left) and Jerry Gallwas on the summit of Totem Pole, Arizona, after the first ascent. Marion “Mark” Lyle Powell, was born in Selma, Califor- nia. His family moved frequently, and when Mark was 15 years old, his parents divorced ...
Energetic, creative, adventurous, and highly unorthodox, Scotsman Hamish MacInnes was among the most influential British climbers of the 1960s and ’70s, and he continued to be an important rescue leader and innovator for many years. Hamish started...
Jock Glidden passed away on July 29, at his home in Ogden, Utah, after the balance of pains outweighed the sum of pleasures, and he determined there was no longer any purpose in continuing the struggle against Parkinson’s disease. Jock was born a...
On October 29, Evelio Echevarría left this world peacefully in his bed, with his family in Colorado alongside. An authority on the Andes and a reference for many generations of climbers in Latin America, he was an intelligent and restless writer,...
Joe Brown on the Craigh Dhu Wall at Tremadog, Wales, in 1967. Photo by John Cleare Joe Brown seemed to me a kind of Renaissance master, his medium blank sheets of rock and ice, the lines he drew on them elegant and clever, his tombstone grin...
(A) Chashkin I from the south with (1) the 2020 ascent route, and (2) the descent route. (B) Unclimbed rock tooth (5,820m). The snow couloir immediately to the right (the Johnny Danger Couloir) was climbed as far as the col below the southeast r...
After returning home from my August expedition to the Chashkin Group (see report here), I organized another trip to Shimshal from November 7 to December 4. David Langanke, my companion from Germany, and I reached Shimshal village on November 10 an...