Cloud Walkers, by Paddy Sherman. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1965. l6l pages, 17 photographs. Price $5.95.Paddy Sherman, a Canadian, skillfully intermixes men, mountains and enough historical background of famous climbs to make very interesting ...
Passu Sar, attempt. Believing it to be still unclimbed and therefore one of the highest unclimbed summits in the Karakoram, a five-man Australian team led by myself booked Passu Sar (7478m). This peak is situated between Shispare and the Batura Gr...
Everest Ascent and Tragedy. Our expedition had eleven Korean members and three Japanese. I was general leader and Korean Roh Jong-Baek was leader. We established Base Camp at 5200 meters on August 25. We placed Camps I, II, III and IV at 6200, 680...
Pik Kommunizma. I led a 10-member Polish team to the International Soviet Pamir Camp in 1984. All, including the three women, managed to climb Pik Kommunizma (7483 meters, 24,550 feet). Starting on July 27, Ewa Panejko-Pankiewicz and Amalia Kaplon...
Mount Everest, Japanese Post-Monsoon Expedition. For the first time ever Mount Everest was climbed in the post-monsoon period when the Japanese Hiachi Ishiguro and Yazuo Kato reached the summit on October 26. They were members of a 48-man expediti...
Ama Dablam Winter Ascents. Five expeditions climbed Ama Dablam by its normal southwest ridge in the last month of 1992. Five Swiss were under the leadership of Franco Dellatorre, who reached the summit alone on December 1. Five Belgians and a Swis...
RAPPEL ERROR - FALL TO GROUND, UNFAMILIAR WITH EQUIPMENTWyoming, Grand Teton National Park, Grand TetonAround 1330 on August 7, Merry Carney (47) was unable to maintain her rappel, zipping down the rope approximately 50 feet to the ground. She had...
Ranrapalca, North Spur, Cordillera Blanca. On August 29 and 30, Britons Joe Simpson and Rick Potter climbed a new route on Ranrapalca (6162 meters, 20,216 feet), the north spur. This lies to the left of the ascent made in 1975 by Johns, Slaymaker ...
FALL ON ROCK, EXCEEDING ABILITIES Wyoming, TeewinotOn August 8, Adam Gymrek (22) and Dirk Murphy were descending a couloir on Teewinot’s East Face. At 0830, Gymrek slipped while attempting to descend a slab of rock. He fell several feet and twiste...
Overview. In 2007 Pakistani authorities received 91 applications to climb various peaks, of which 83 were approved, including 14 applicants who were granted permission to climb two peaks each, one three peaks, and another four peaks. Two expeditio...
Kichatna Spires, Various Ascents. Kevin Thaw (U.K.) and Calder Stratford established two new routes in the Kichatna Spires. The pair first established Dreams of Sea on the south buttress of Peak 8400. The route is comprised of seven 60-meter pitch...
FALLING ROCK Idaho, Rocky CanyonOn Sunday, April 25, I was involved in a rock climbing accident in Rocky Canyon and was able to experience technical rescue from the patients perspective.David Anjelkovich, Sara Pedde and I decided to climb a bolted...
Cho Oyu Attempt. Four Japanese led by Ryoichi Fukada attempted to climb Cho Oyu by the normal route, but they had to turn back at 7800 meters on August 31.Elizabeth Hawley
Colorado, Pikes Peak—On 12 August, Mrs. Inestine B. Roberts (88), had made her 14th climb of Pikes Peak. She started the descent but night fell and she bivouaced which had been her custom on previous climbs. She was seen on the 13th and reported a...
North Howser Tower, West Face, First Free Ascent. On the evening of August 14, Kennan Harvey and I hiked to the Bugaboo Snowpatch Col on the way to the remote west face of the North Howser Tower. The next morning we descended to the base of the fa...
Nanga Parbat, Kinshofer Route, Diamir Face. A Swiss group from Bern led by Martin Fischer managed to climb the Kinshofer Route on the Diamir Face. Three men reached 7700 meters and one of them, Christoph Häuter gained the summit on July 8. A Basqu...
AVALANCHE, FALL INTO CREVASSE, POOR POSITION, WEATHER, INADEQUATE PREPARATIONBritish Columbia, Mount RobsonA party of three (Party One) and a party of two (Party Two) were climbing Mount Robson via the Kain route on July 9. They set up camp in whi...
Aconcagua, Ascent and Attempt. Todd Hoffman, Tom Douglas, and I summited Aconcagua via the normal route at 2 p.m. on January 31, having spent a total of eight days on the mountain. After acclimatizing on the normal route, Todd Hoffman, Gabe Schlum...
Northern Cascades: (3) Mt. Index, Washington. During the first week of October 1947, there occurred a tragic accident which has not yet been fully explained. Two young men named Franklin and Westphal, each 17 years of age and with a minimum of cli...
Word from Munich. Mr. W. R. Rickmers, writing from Munich, states that about half of the Alpine Museum has survived, but the Alpenvereinsbücherei of 40,000 volumes, as well as all maps, prints and manuscripts (among them the Führerbücher), was tot...