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2006 - Hans Gmoser Dies After Bike Accident
7/7/06 - Legendary Canadian mountaineer Hans Gmoser, 73, died this week after a cycling accident. Gmoser founded Canadian Mountain Holidays, a leading guide service and helicopter skiing operation, in 1957, and he inspired generations of Rockies climbers and skiers. 7/7/06 - Canadian Jean-Pierre “Peewee” Ouellet has made the probable second ascent of Fiddler on the Roof (5.13d), a roof crack in Fremont Canyon, Wyoming, nearly 20 years after Steve Petro first climbed the route. 7/05/06 - What if you threw an international bouldering competition and didn’t provide decent pads for the landings? At the European Championship in Russia last weekend, the result was no contest. 7/05/06 - A renewed energy invades the East Coast’s seemingly “tapped-out” ‘Gunks bouldering scene, as Paul Robinson, Andy Salo, Ivan Greene, and Vadim Vinokur establish newer, sicker, harder lines. 6/29/06 - A Slovenian duo has completed the alpine-style first ascent of Janak (ca 23,200 feet) in Nepal via its spectacular southwest pillar. 6/28/06 - Canadian Sonnie Trotter has redpointed the much-tried Cobra Crack at Squamish, B.C., calling it solid 5.14, a strong candidate for the world’s hardest crack climb. 6/27/06 - Frenchman Jérôme Meyer has cemented the overall victory in the 2006 bouldering World Cup. 6/26/06 - Mike Anderson and Rob Pizem have made the first free ascent of the Thunderbird Wall route on the North Face of Timbertop Mesa in Zion National Park. 6/21/06 - Climbers and friends gathered on Sunday, June 18, in the Ford Amphitheater in Vail Village to celebrate the life of 36-year-old climber Sue Nott, of Vail, Colorado, recently disappeared with partner Karen McNeill, 37, in the Alaska Range. 6/12/06 - Canadian Maxime Turgeon, climbing with two different partners, has put up two new routes in the Alaska Range, including a major new line on Denali's south face with Louis-Philippe Menard. 6/06/06 - After analyzing photos taken yesterday, National Park Service rangers have confirmed footprints at about the 16,400-foot level on Mt. Foraker. They have redirected search efforts for missing climbers Karen McNeill and Sue Nott to focus on an area below the south summit of 17,400-foot Foraker. 6/05/06 - Karen McNeill and Sue Nott, two of the foremost female alpinists in North America, are missing on 17,400-foot Mt. Foraker in the Alaska Range. 6/05/06 - Daniel Woods and Alex Puccio were the big winners at the two-day, three-event Teva Mountain Games in Vail, Colorado, last weekend. 6/05/06 - Sergey Samoilov and Denis Urubko of Kazakhstan have climbed a direct new route up the northeast face of Manaslu in Nepal, the world’s eighth-highest peak, in alpine style. 5/31/06 - Spanish climber Ramón (“Ramonét”) Julian Puigblanque has onsighted Suma 0 (8c/5.14b) at Cuenca, Spain, according to www.8a.nu. 5/31/06 - That venerable Volkswagon bus or the pickup with the sticker-covered shell may be proud symbols of the vagabond elite. But with gas prices soaring, keeping such beasts running could push road-tripping climbers even closer to dirtbag status. 5/31/06 - Scott Semple and Raphael Slawinski have climbed a difficult new route on the northeast face of 11,319-foot Mt. Andromeda in the Canadian Rockies, left of the classic Andromeda Strain. 5/30/06 - Ed Maginn cartwheeled a vertical half-mile down the Orient Express route on Denali last week but survived with minor injuries. 5/30/06 - Josh Wharton has linked two of the Black Canyon’s premier free climbs, leading every pitch of the Free Nose (VI 5.12) on North Chasm View Wall and Tague Your Time (V+ 5.12) on South Chasm View Wall in a single day. 5/25/06 - During an Alaskan season in which most climbers have so far come up short, two parties have climbed big new routes in the Ruth Gorge. 5/23/06 - Colorado’s Emily Harrington, 20, finished fifth in a truncated World Cup lead-climbing comp in Dresden, Germany. 5/23/06 - Ethan Pringle redpointed Just Do It (5.14b/c) at Smith Rock, Oregon, on May 20. 5/19/06 - The amazing Ammon McNeely chalked up his 11th first one-day ascent on El Capitan, climbing Native Son in 23 hours 53 minutes with frequent speed partner Ivo Ninov. 5/19/06 - The traditional late-May peak for summit bids is only now upon us, and 29,029-foot Mt. Everest has already seen a full season’s worth of highjinks. 5/17/06 - Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner reached the summit of 28,169-foot Kanchenjunga on Sunday, along with four other climbers, adding a ninth 8,000-meter peak to her list of climbs—more than any other woman in history. |
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