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Non-Fiction: Cruisin’ with Susan
We’d both wanted to do it. We lay there on the ground, shivering in the night air as much from fear as from the cold.
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Mark Twight Apparently Was Also Experiencing Hallucinations…
Mark Twight apparently was also experiencing hallucinations (or just a bad memory) as he appears to have confused two passages from Snow in the Kingdom.
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Ice and Access in the Hyalite Canyon
Joe Josephson, Montana’s most vocal ice proponent and author of Winter Dance, speaks about the precarious access to Hyalite Canyon: “Often in life, you don’t realize how good you have it until it’s gone–or at least under the threat of being taken away.”
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Mountain Hardwear Women’s Quark: The Every-Day Outerwear
In spite of the plentitude of masculine, heavy-duty shells on the market, I spent this past summer testing the women’s Mountain HardWear Quark jacket. Why, you ask, did I eschew various men’s models in favor of the women’s Quark? Because it’s extremely light, and Mountain HardWear touts it as the lightest (9 ounces), truly waterproof…
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Hidden Luxuries of Nanga Parbat?
A recent perusal of Mark Twight’s self aggrandizing (not to mention downright brilliant) “Kiss or Kill” brought me to the following passage, in which Twight references partner Barry Blanchard’s out of body experience on the mountain: “I assumed it was a benign hypoxic hallucination, remembering a story in which Ed Webster saw a taco truck…
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2007 Bozeman Ice Festival
Alpinist, proud sponsor of the 2007 Bozeman Ice Festival, presents this feature film highlighting last year’s events.
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Tomaz Humar: What’s Up, Alpinist?
This is the first time I’ve see Alpinist late to post news. An outstanding climb was done by Tomaz over a week ago.
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HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE PAID TO WRITE ABOUT CLIMBING?
“They should have signs and stuff and trash cans outside,” said Pham, who climbs regularly in the safety of a San Francisco gym. “I don’t think they even clean your rocks off for you out there.”
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TRIP REPORT: NEW ROUTE IN NORWAY’S EFJORD AREA
The climb starts upon the saddle of “The Worlds Sva” which is a obvious feature easily seen from Highway E6, about 2km north from the ferry. The dihedral system is the most spectacular part of the wall. Approach from the road took us about half an hour.
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BOLIVIA YIELDS NEW ROCK ROUTES FOR IMPERIAL COLLEGE EXPEDITION
Friday 13 July It takes an entire day for Hal and Virgil to traverse 8m in an attempt to find a line of weakness the overhanging section on the big wall. Virgil Places a bolt by hand in order to retreat from this position and leave a solid anchor to ascend to the next day.…
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Therm-a-Rest Toughskin: Rugged in the Dire and Amorous
There may be other inflatable sleeping pads out there, but you know you’ve got a corner on the market when your brand name becomes the vernacular for your niche. For years, however, I avoided Therm-a-Rests, preferring the closed-cell pads that, while they might not offer quite the same insulation and comfort as an inflatable pad,…
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RIDICULOUS POLITICAL RESPONSES TO CLIMBING
I’m recently a Wyoming Girl, but having spent a few years in the unshorn-leg-hair land of Oregon, this still feels like it hits close to home. The following is excerpted from a larger piece that appeared in the Northwest Mountaineering Journal about last December’s well publicized–or completely over-hyped–series of fatalities on Mt. Hood.
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TRIP REPORT: CHILEAN TEAM CLIMBS POSSIBLE NEW LINE ON CHACRARAJU’S SOUTH FACE
On July 22nd we reckoned the approach to the base of the South face and assessed the real magnitude of the challenge. The wall only grew taller and more vertical as we came closer. We roped up in the middle of the glacier to cross some crevasses, checked out the start of the climb and…
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