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Major New Link-Up on Cerro Torre
1/09/07 - Americans Kelly Cordes and Colin Haley completed a fast, alpine-style ascent of a much-discussed link-up on Cerro Torre, following the Marsigny-Parkin line to the Col of Hope, then the original 1974 route up the West Ridge to the summit. 1/08/07 - A six-member team of Japanese climbers, assisted by a Korean expedition and Sherpa climbers, completed the steep South Face of Lhotse in Nepal but could not reach the summit of the 27,940-foot peak. 1/05/06 - On December 23, Fred Nicole from Switzerland made the second ascent of Chris Sharma’s Witness the Fitness roof problem in Arkansas. 1/04/07 - Britons Stuart McAleese and Mike “Twid” Turner pioneered a route up the unclimbed 3,500-foot South Face of the South Tower of Paine in Chilean Patagonia, but a five-day storm near the top prevented them from climbing easier terrain to the summit. 1/03/07 - Jorge Egocheaga made a new speed record ascent of Argentina's Aconcagua (22,841 feet; the tallest peak in the Southern Hemisphere) in seven hours and 52 minutes from Horcones Valley (9,350 feet) to the summit, with a roundtrip time of 14 hours, five minutes, and 54 seconds. 1/03/07 - Italian Fabio Valseschini has made the first solo winter ascent of the Northeast Face of Piz Badile, on the border between Switzerland and Italy. 12/31/06 - The search for American alpinists Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff in the Yunnan Province of China has ended. 12/21/06 - Austrian climber Hari Berger was killed while ice climbing in an ice cave near Hintersee Flachachau, Austria, on Wednesday, December 20, after approximately 150 tons of ice collapsed, burying the Austrian World Champion during training. 12/19/06 - Skaha Bluffs, near Penticton, in southern British Columbia, is a collection of over 50 gneiss cliffs with over 800 climbs ranging from 30 to 160 feet in length. 12/19/06 - Check out the megaton of rockfall that cleaved off of Teapot Rock at Schnebly Hill Road in Sedona, AZ, mid-day on December 12. 12/19/06 - Tempestuous Oregon weather calmed enough for search teams to reach the highest parts of Mount Hood on Sunday during their search for three missing climbers. 12/19/06 - The following is to inform you and your readers of several changes that have taken effect and will take effect in the Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre massif, in the northern part of Los Glaciares National Park. 12/18/06 - Charlie Fowler and Chris Boskoff, two of America's leading alpinists, have gone missing in Tibet's Genyen region, since November 29 (they were due to return to the United States on December 4). 12/14/06 - High winds and heavy snow continue to hamper search efforts for three climbers stranded on Oregon's Mount Hood (11,249 feet). 12/13/06 - In early November, before winter’s arctic chill descended upon Wyoming, Justin Edl completed his hardest offwidth problem yet among the huge granite boulders of Vedauwoo: Monsters Incorporated (5.13 or V8-). 12/12/06 - Veteran Antarctic explorer Damien Gildea from Australia and a team of young climbers, including Alaskan Jed Brown, have climbed a virgin summit in a remote range near Mt. Vinson. 12/11/06 - A French team made the first traverse of little-known Mt. Ross on the isolated Kerguélen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. 12/11/06 - On December 7, Dave Graham climbed what is likely the third ascent of Siurana, Spain's A Muerte (5.14c/d), a route opened in March 2006 by Richard Simpson of the United Kingdom. 12/08/06 - Five climbing teams have been nominated for the 16th annual Piolet d'Or, the golden ice axe presented to the “best” mountaineering ascent of the year. 12/08/06 - Frenchmen Stéphane Benoist and Frédéric Gottardi have added another extremely difficult ice climb to the North Face of 20,269-foot Kwangde in Nepal. 12/05/06 - Eric Brand left us on September 30. He went into the home he shared with his wife Carol in Silver City, New Mexico, lay down on the couch, and never woke up. 12/04/06 - One day after the original La Rambla (5.15a) saw its second ascent, Chris Sharma redpointed the endurance-fest in Siurana, Spain, for its third ascent. 12/04/06 - Patxi Usobiaga is at it again, this time with the first ascent of Begi Puntuan in the limestone crag of Etxauri, near Pampalona, Spain. 12/01/06 - Jerry Moffatt's The Ace (V13) saw its fifth ascent by sleeper climber Andrew Earl on Novermber 29. 12/01/06 - Spain’s Edu Marin has nabbed the second ascent of the original La Rambla (5.15a), right under the noses of several of the world’s best sport climbers, who also have been trying the route. |
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