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Rands Climbs Bishop Highballs
2/03/07 - Lisa Rands sent the high and hard This Side of Paradise (V10), making the fourth ascent of this problem in the Buttermilks, near Bishop, California. 2/01/07 - Chris Hunnicutt, a 32-year-old Salt Lake City climber, lost his life on Tuesday, January 30th while climbing Stairway to Heaven (WI5) in Provo Canyon. 1/11/07 - Bradford Washburn, one of the key figures of American mountaineering in the 20th century, died last night at a retirement home near Boston. He was 96. 1/31/07 - Benoît Dubois won the second Challenge Millet in Québec, leading 26 overhanging mixed climbs in three hours on the scruffy cliffs of Saint-Alban. 1/30/07 - Greg Child, Jared Ogden, and Mark Synnott have climbed a new, mostly free route on the overhanging northern prow of Mt. Roraima in Guyana. 1/27/07 - The first ascent of Chomo Lhari’s 6,000-foot Northwest Pillar by Slovenians Boris Lorencic and Marko Prezelj won the 16th Piolet d’Or, the annual prize awarded in France for the year’s “best” alpine climb. 1/25/07 - For the second time this season, an international team has claimed the first ascent of the highest unclimbed peak in Antarctica’s Sentinel Range. 1/23/07 - The Canadian-American trio of Chris Brazeau, Crystal Davis-Robbins, and Jon Walsh have climbed two probable new routes on peaks north of the Cerro Torre group in Patagonia. 1/22/07 - Free skier Chris Davenport has succeeded in an ambitious quest to ski all 54 of the Colorado 14'ers in less than 12 months. 1/19/07 - Access to Hueco Tanks State Historic Site, the world-class bouldering area outside El Paso, Texas, might be at risk with a proposed transfer of ownership of roughly 20 parks and historical sites in the Lone Star State. 1/18/07 - Two French teams managed near onsights of Logical Progression, a 27-pitch, 5.13a "sport climb" on northern Mexico's El Gigante, with Arnaud Petit onsighting all but one pitch over two long days. 1/17/07 - As a winter storm pounded the southern San Juan Mountains of Colorado, Ukrainian Evgeny Kryvosheytsev won the annual mixed-climbing competition at the 12th Ouray Ice Festival. 1/16/07 - Finally catching a break in a dreary winter, climbers leaped into action on British gritstone last week, completing two new lines and a very hard repeat. 1/12/07 - The American Alpine Club and the Mountain Institute have received a $150,000 grant from the Argosy Foundation to launch the Alpine Conservation Partnership (ACP), a program designed to protect and restore alpine ecosystems worldwide. 1/12/07 - Almost 13 years after making the first ascent of Ulvetanna, a striking 9,710-foot granite spire in Antarctica, a Norwegian team returned to Queen Maud Land to climb the tower’s vertical North Face. 1/11/07 - It's mid-season at Hueco Tanks again, and stuff's getting done. Like last year, the park has seen droves of visitors in 2006/2007 - some of the sport's leading climbers, like Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson, Jon Cardwell, and Sean McColl. 1/10/07 - New Englanders Dave Sharratt and Freddie Wilkinson climbed a new route up the South Face of Aguja Poincenot, a neighbor of Fitz Roy in Patagonia. 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. |
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