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Celebrating Micheal O' Riordan
7/23/07 - Valentia Island lies off the southwest corner of Ireland, off the famed Ring of Kerry and forming the southern arm of Dingle Bay. Fogher cliffs lie at the northern side of Valentia near where the first trans-Atlantic cable brought Morse messages to Newfoundland, 150 years ago. 7/15/07 - Michael Reardon, 36, the accomplished free soloist based out of Oak Park, California, went missing off the southwestern coast of Ireland around 5 p.m. Friday. 7/06/07 - Colin Haley and Mark Westman climbed the Denali Diamond route on Mt. McKinley’s southwest face in less than 48 hours, from the bergschrund to the summit, making the probable fifth ascent of one of Alaska’s most beautiful climbs. 7/04/07 - Himalayan veterans Yannick Graziani and Christian Trommsdorff from France have climbed a difficult route in pure alpine style to make the first ascent of 7,350-meter Pumari Chhish South. 6/26/07 - A Swiss trio has made the first ascent of the striking Northeast Face of 20,840-foot Arwa Tower in India’s Garhwal Himalaya. 6/25/07 - Colorado’s Emily Harrington proved once again that she is one of the world’s best competition sport climbers, finishing third in a World Cup in Zürich, Switzerland. 6/21/07 - Daniel Woods bagged the first ascent of a much-coveted Rocky Mountain National park super-project, Jade (V15, and formerly known as the Green 45). 6/20/07 - When the Slovenian alpinist Miha Valic topped all 82 4,000-meter Alps peaks in 102 days, beginning on December 27, 2006, and ending April 7, he completed a major feat, one that has, in his words, “been a thorn in the European alpinists' flesh for a while.” 6/20/07 - On Malaysia's high point, Mount Kinabalu (13,435 feet), lurks a climber's paradise, a granite plateau beetling with unclimbed aiguilles and rent by a 2,000-foot-deep canyon. 6/20/07 - Martin Gutmannn and Lucas Iten, both from Switzerland, and the Coloradoan Jack Sasser took a successful spring trip to Alaska’s Pika Glacier, climbing three first ascents and repeating two routes, without placing any bolts or pitons. 6/12/07 - The English phenom Tyler Landman scored the second ascent of one of Colorado’s hardest boulder problems, Ode to the Modern Man (V15), on May 26. 6/08/07 - Daniel Woods snatched his third consecutive victory at the annual Teva Mountain Games bouldering comp in Vail, Colorado, and Alex Puccio won her second title in a row. 6/08/07 - Two pairs of the leading activists in Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison have completed major new free climbs, each a multiyear project. 6/06/07 - Canadian Stéphane Perron capped a remarkable string of solo ascents in Yosemite Valley with an all-free rope solo of Free Rider (37 pitches, 5.12d) on El Capitan. 5/31/07 - When someone gets on a rip — as the California climber Ethan Pringle has in the last few months — it’s almost impossible to keep up with him. 5/31/07 - Other than Steve House and Colin Haley, the person most excited about the new House-Haley Route on the Emperor Face of Mt. Robson was Jim Logan, who made the first ascent of the face in 1978. 5/30/07 - Steve McClure has redpointed a possible 9a+ (5.15a) at Malham Cove in Yorkshire, creating what could be the hardest sport climb in Great Britain. 5/29/07 - Colin Haley and Steve House leapt into an open weather window and quickly climbed a new route on the massive Emperor Face of Mt. Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. 5/24/07 - Austrian Hansjörg Auer has free-soloed the legendary route “The Fish” on the South Face of the Marmolada in Italy, completing the 900-meter 5.12c in just under three hours. 5/23/07 - A Japanese threesome has climbed a trio of hard new routes in the Ruth Gorge of the Alaska Range. Fumitaka Ichimura, Yusuke Sato, and Tatsuro Yamada spent 24 days in the Ruth in April and made five attempts on unclimbed lines, three of them successful. 5/22/07 - Gareth Hughes and Vivian Scott made the first ascent of the East Face of Mt. Dan Beard, the 10,260-foot peak that forms the north end of the Ruth Amphitheater in the Alaska Range. 5/21/07 - Daniel Woods nabbed the second ascent of Dave Graham’s Suspension of Disbelief (V13), a techy 18-foot overhanging arête near Eldorado Springs Canyon, Colorado, put up by Dave Graham on November 26, 2005. 5/21/07 - Britons Jon Bracey and Andy Houseman have made the second ascent of the French Route on the North Buttress of Mt. Hunter, 23 years after the first ascent. 5/18/07 - When Lara Karena Kellogg died in a rappelling accident in the Alaska Range on April 23, her husband, Chad, could not be notified for several days. 5/17/07 - Simon Hitchens, Phil Jefferey, and Mike “Twid” Turner traveled from the U.K. to Alaska’s Kichatna Spires in April and made the first ascents of three long ice gullies. |
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