Lone Pine Peak, Direct South Face. Early in May, Fred Beckey and I established ourselves in an abandoned stone house an hour from the south face of Lone Pine Peak (12,951 feet). Expecting the worst, we ferried heavy packs to a point directly beneath the most direct line to the summit of this gigantic wall. The climb involved 3500 feet of mixed free and aid climbing on one of the longest walls in the Sierra Nevada. The summit was reached on May 4 after three days of enjoyable high-angle climbing NCCS V, F7, A2

Eric Bjørnstad