 |
|
|
 2007 - Outdoor Industry Loses Adventure Travel Pioneer
Armchair adventurers and professional mountaineers alike mourn the loss of adventurer Richard McGowan. One of the founders of the adventure travel industry, McGowan died in his home on February 27 after a long battle with leukemia.  2007 - Harold Igoe, 1921-2007
3/26/07 - Born in Charleston, SC, raised in Chicago, IL, he was a service veteran of 25 years and flew B24s throughout Germany and northern Italy during WWII. Shot down “a few times,” and once walking 30 miles back to base, he was responsible for saving at least one fellow serviceman’s life. 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.  2006 - Christine Boskoff: Making It Happen
In November 2006, the veteran alpinist Christine Boskoff went missing in Tibet with her boyfriend and climbing partner, Charlie Fowler. Here, her longtime friend Jane Courage remembers their time together, and we present a revealing Q + A with Boskoff as excerpted from an upcoming book on the world’s greatest mountaineers.  2006 - Charlie Fowler: A Climber's Life
Fowler, who perished in an avalanche in November 2006, was one of America’s leading rock climbers and alpinists. Here, his friends and climbing partners Damon Johnson, Kelly Sjölander and Pat Ament remember their time together, and we present Fowler’s final pieces of writing for Climbing, two short tales of adventure from Peru and Tibet.  2006 - Remembering Hari
It is difficult to lose a friend and even more difficult to lose someone who is truly passionate about all that they do, but on December 20, 2006, Hari Berger, 34, world-champion ice climber, died in an unlikely event while ice climbing near his home in Austria.  2006 - Loss of a Legend
On October 23, the climbing world lost a legend — Todd Skinner, originally of Pinedale, Wyoming, 47 at the time of his death and a leading big-wall free climber. Skinner died in an unrestrained 500-foot fall from the Leaning Tower in Yosemite National Park. 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. 8/18/06 - On monday, August 14, John Bachar, his girlfriend Anastasia, and Acopa president Steve Karafa were involved in a car accident returning home from the 25th annual Outdoor Retailer Trade Show in Salt Lake City. 8/15/06 - A legendary player in Hueco Tanks State Park passed away on August 2nd, at 66 years of age. Pedro Zavala, Jr., otherwise known as “Hueco Pete,” owned and operated the Hueco Tanks Country Store outside the park until 2000... 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. 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.  2006 - Jeff Schoen
Jeff made many worthy first ascents on Sierra granite, classics like Lighten Up (five pitches, 5.12b) in Yosemite, andMocha Velvet Stout (three pitches, 5.12d) and Wildcat Buttress (seven pitches, 5.12c) in Tuolumne. One of Jeff's greatest and most endearing qualities was how he lifted others onto pedestals, touting their virtues. He did it all the time. On the flip side, Jeff was often very hard on himself; friends would note his bountiful intelligence and compassion, but he would argue the contrary. 4/04/06 - Legendary ski mountaineer and Teton climbing guide Doug Coombs was killed yesterday near La Grave, France, along with American Chad VanderHam. 1/31/06 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, one of France’s greatest modern climbers, is now believed dead high on the slopes of Makalu, where he was attempting the peak’s first winter ascent completely solo. 5/31/05 - A week ago, Biskit, the beloved climbing dog went missing in Gold Hill, Colorado and never returned. 5/06/05 - Climber, mountain guide, educator and activist Jim Ratz was killed May 4 in a fall in Sinks Canyon, near his home in Lander, Wyoming. 2/07/05 - Anderl Heckmair, who led the first ascent of the great North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland, died last week at age 98. 9/23/04 - Pete Schoening, one of the greatest climbers from the golden age of expeditionary mountaineering in the 1950s, died this week. He was 77. 7/14/04 - Longtime climber and climbing activist Reese Martin III was killed July 9 in a paragliding accident in Washington State. 7/01/04 - Jules Cartwright, 29, one of the foremost British alpinists of his generation, was killed in a fall from the Piz Badile in Switzerland, along with his client, Julie Colverd, a 43-year-old Scottish police officer. 4/29/04 - Patrick Berhault, one of the most visionary and accomplished climbers of recent decades, died in a fall from the Dom, the highest peak in Switzerland, three-quarters of the way through his unprecedented bid to climb all of the 4,000-meter peaks of the Alps non-stop by foot and ski. 11/26/03 - Jack Durrance, one of the best American climbers of the late 1930s and early ’40s, has died at 91.
Previous Page -
1
2
|
Copyright 2009 Skram Media LLC, All rights reserved.