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2006 - Acopa President, Steve Karafa, Killed in Car Accident
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. |
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