Latok II Attempt. Three days after leaving Askole on June 10, Thomas Strausz, Wolfgang Göschl, Andreas Hollinger and I got to 4500-meter Base Camp on the Uzun Brakk Glacier. Our objective was the southwest buttress of Latok II, the westernmost sum...
Queen Maud Land, Various Ascents. Ivar Erik Tollefsen led a Norwegian expedition to Queen Maud Land, one of the most isolated and unexplored regions of Antarctica. The expedition made 36 first ascents, including the first ascent of Jokulkyrkja (31...
South Face of Prusik Peak, Cashmere Crags. Although we had reserved the first ascent of the 900-foot south face of Prusik Peak for the visit of the French climbers, Guido Magnone and Jean Coure, poor organization on the part of their sponsors and ...
Glückliche Tage auf hohen Bergen, by Walter Schmidt. 326 pages, with 106 photographic illustrations by the author and an index. Bern: Verlag Hallweg, 1951. Price, $4.65.The author of the readable Komm mit mir ins Wallis and Rendezvous in Zermatt h...
Wrangell Mountains, Various Ascents. On April 3, Paul Claus of Ultima Thule Outfitters flew Anchorage climbers Paul Barry, Kirk Towner and me from Chitina to “Bona Basin” at 10,500 feet on the upper Klutlan Glacier.From this base camp we were able...
Illimani, North Ridge and Peaks in Condoriri Group. Thirteen members of the Club Alpino Italiano, Lucca, climbed in the southern Cordillera Real in June and July 1976. In the Condoriri group they made ascents to Huallomen (5463 meters, 17,920 feet...
Mount Logan. Three Canadian parties climbed Mount Logan. David Hughes, Robert Kandiko, Jim Allen, Paul Starr, Tim Ryan, Douglas Herchmer and Nichol Ross climbed the Catenary Ridge. Douglas Dalquist, Michael Strong, Brian Maclean and Kelley Kissock...
East Buttress of Bridalveil Fall: On September 14, T. M. Herbert and I made the first ascent of a thin, esthetic buttress just east of Bridalveil Fall. The route consists of 5 pitches and took about 6½ hours. The first three pitches are direct aid...
Fang. The Fang (7647 meters, 25,090 feet) is a sharp rock-and-ice tooth crowning three jagged ridges and sérac-covered faces, southwest of Annapurna I. Its south face rises steeply some 16,000 feet. The highest still unclimbed summit in Nepal, it ...
Mount Hayden. Near South Twin Sister and climbed by the southwest side.
Annapurna South or Moditse. The expedition of 15 climbers was led by Jerzy Pietkiewicz. They were very keen and determined but sadly lacking in high-mountain experience. On April 15 the main party arrived at Base Camp, which had been set up by an ...
Mt. Everest, North Face, Variation. A Russian expedition led by Kazbek Khamitasayev ascended what they said was an unclimbed rib on the north face to an altitude of perhaps 7500 meters before abandoning that line and traversing left to the standar...
Torre Norte del Paine, Solo, 1985. Italian Elio Orlandi climbed the North Paine Tower solo on December 29, 1985. He was accompanied to Base Camp by Nora Rigotti. On December 28 he approached the western foot of the three towers, where he bivouacke...
Chacraraju Este Attempt, Cordillera Blanca and Peaks in Cordilleras Raura and Yauyos. The Kanazawa University Alpine Club expedition was composed of Toshimitsu Wada, leader, Kazumasa Kawachi, Masando Tanaka, Kasumaza Kochi and three others. They f...
Cordillera Apolobamba. Solo, I did a short journey from Pelechuco into the Chaupi Orco basin, where on November 25, 1970 I climbed P 5230 (17,159 feet) from the north. This lies on the north ridge of Soral Oeste, north of P 5320 (on Melbourne’s ma...
Satopanth. Germans Viktor Stangassinger, Jürgen Grohall, leader Herbert Streibel, Sherpa Dorje and I reached the summit of Satopanth (7075 meters, 23,212 feet) by the northeast ridge on June 16.Cestmir Lukeš, Czechoslovakian living in Switzerland
Aconcagua, 2003-2004 season overview. This season Aconcagua beat its record for visitation. The estimated number of people in Aconcagua Provincial Park was 7,000 (87% foreign, 13% Argentineans) for the season (November 15, 2003 to March 15, 2004),...
Tapadan Sar. In June, Phil Bartlett and I visited the Morkhun valley in the northwest Karakoram and made several spirited attempts on the north face of Jur Jur Khona Sar, a tricky 6000er of easy access from the Karakoram Highway. In excessive heat...
Manda II, second ascent and new route. The climbing history of the Manda group is surprisingly short. Until 2001 Manda II (the highest summit, 6568m) had been climbed only once; from the west (Kedar Glacier) in 1982 by an American expedition, whic...
Satopanth. A Himalayan Association of Japan expedition with 14 members was led by Akinori Hosaka. Climbing the north ridge, Hosaka, Koji Sekine, Takahito Amagi, Wakio Okegawa and Fumiaki Goto got to the summit on August 9 and Kyoko Endo, Hiroko Hi...