Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps. Fergus Fleming. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. 16 pages of black-and-white photos. 398 pages. $26.00.By one of those coincidences that must play havoc with publishers’ bottom line, these two book...
Devistan. Devistan (21,910 feet) was climbed from the Trisul Glacier by the whole of the Iwate Sangaku Kyokai party on May 24, including Shozo Watanabe, leader, Yoji Kudo, Kazuo Iwabuchi, Seiichi Sawada, Kazuo Domon, Yukio Kudo and Tomo Odanaka.Ic...
New Zealand Expedition to Quebrada Yanganuco, Cordillera Blanca. The inevitable problems of organization overcome, our party, John Tothill, Don Mackay, Jean and Michael Nelson, arrived in Huaraz on July 10. There we picked up our porters and hired...
New Hampshire, Mt. Clay—On about September 1, 1956 John Ochab (37) apparently slipped on wet rocks and fell to his death a few feet below the summit of Mt. Clay. He fell down the gully toward the Great Gulf on the east slope of Mt. Clay. Ochab was...
Kamchatka Volcanoes. One pleasant benefit from the improving relations between what was the USSR and the United States is that previously closed areas are becoming open for exploration and climbing. One of these is the Kamchatka peninsula with its...
Peaks in “Little Switzerland.” As far as I know, Roger Robinson, Ken Cook and I are the only climbers to have been in “Little Switzerland,” which lies within the big bend of the Kahiltna. On July 19 & 20 we climbed P 8130 (“The Royal Tower”)...
Quadrant Spire. The first ascent of this summit was made on July 26 by Hans Gmoser with Jo Kato, Skip Merler, and Roby Fierz. From Fairy Meadow the usual route was taken over all the summits of Quadrant and thence along the ridge running easterly ...
Chogolisa Attempt. José Bermúdez, Jerry Lovatt, Grant Dixon, Robert Parker and I hoped to climb Chogolisa (7668 meters, 25,158 feet). Parker had to leave on August 1 because of illness. We wanted to make the second ascent of the 1986 British route...
Monte Sarmiento, West Peak. The twin peaks of Monte Sarmiento had been climbed only once before. Italian expeditions made both ascents, the first in 1956 (East Peak) and again in 1986 (West Peak). With the objective of new routes on both peaks, ou...
Snow Creek Wall, Outer Space. This winter ascent was completed on January 1 by Ron Burgner, Mark Weigelt, and me. We encountered 12 inches of snow plastered on ice over the whole 800-foot wall. Approximately two-fifths was fifth class climbing and...
Kingnait Fiord, Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island. On July 21 Daniel Cauthorn, Michael Friedman, Ben Dobbins and I1 left Pangnirtung in a 24-foot freighter canoe bound for the head of Kingnait Fiord, some 80 miles distant. We spent 35 days in th...
Cordillera Real and Sajama. The expedition I led was dispatched by the Alpine Club of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. The rest of the party consisted of two graduates, Kunio Suzuki and Masaki Aoki, two students, Takaya Takeshita and Tadas...
Condorsenga. Bruce Campbell-Watt, my wife Madeline and I spent six days camped near Mina Raura. Campbell-Watt and I climbed Yanku (16,897 feet) by the east ridge, Condorsenga (17,618 feet) via the east face after gaining the plateau between Condor...
The Brother and the Sisters, North Faces, Niut Range. After nearly a month of waiting for the usual “Indian Summer”, Fred Beckey, Bill Lahr, and I at last got our proposed traverse of the Niut Range underway. At ten A.M. on September 15, after bei...
Mt. Huntington, East Face. Paul Roderick of TAT dropped off Alex Lowe and me on the WestFork of the Ruth Glacier under perfect skies. A high pressure had settled into the Alaska Range, and we were psyched to take full advantage of it. We unloaded ...
Where Four Worlds Meet, by Fosco Maraini. Translated by Peter Green. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 290 pages, 169 photos (28 color plates). Price: $12.50.In 1959, an Italian expedition made the first ascent of 24,170-foot Mount Saraghr...
Aoraki Mount Cook and Westland summary. There were a number of standout climbs at Aoraki Mt. Cook during the last year, with Allan Uren and Craig Jefferies’ ascent of the northeast face of Torres Peak (3,160m) being the most significant. Climbed i...
Picket Range, a South to North Traverse. In late summer Half Zantop and I approached this magnificent area from the south via Goodell Creek and the ridge east of Terror Creek, and then from Terror Basin went high over the south ridge of Degenhardt...
California, Joshua Tree Monument (I)—At approximately 3:30 p.m. on June 5, Sgt. Joseph Jones (22) slipped on water-slickened rock while hiking in Rattlesnake Canyon with his wife. He fell free for about 25 feet, landing in the base of a dry waterf...
Colorado College Mountain Club. The activities of the club, which is located at Colorado Springs, began 1962 with a January trip to the sandstone pinnacles of Monument Valley, Arizona. Seven members made the first ascent of the Caterpillar formati...