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2006 - Nott and McNeill honored
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. 5/17/06 - Halfway through the World Cup bouldering season, the men’s competition has become a real dogfight while the women’s crown appears to be headed toward Olga Bibik of Russia. 5/11/06 - Authorities have found the bodies of seven climbers out of 11 that have been missing since Tuesday near the top of Mt. Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe. 5/10/06 - If you thought the late, lamented Phoenix Bouldering Contest was a big deal, check out the 3rd annual Melloblocco, which went off last weekend high in northern Italy’s Val di Mello. 5/05/06 - Austrian mountaineer Christian Stangl has claimed a new speed record for climbing 18,506-foot Mt. Elbrus, Europe’s highest peak. 5/4/06 - An international team has repeated Rainbow Jambaia (31 pitches, 5.13), a bold big-wall free climb beside remote Angel Falls in Venezuela. 5/02/06 - A seriously blown finger tendon will shut down most climbers for weeks, if not months. Not Steve House. 5/02/06 -Two of Indian Creek’s hardest crack climbs got their second ascents in April. Canadian Sonnie Trotter dispatched Learning to Fly on his second try and From Switzerland with Love after “five or six tries.” 5/01/06 - The new museum of American mountaineering, slated to open in Golden, Colorado, in the winter of 2007-08, will be named for pioneering mountain photographer and cartographer Bradford Washburn. |
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