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19 Letters
A member of The Brotherhood writes back to The Squishy Bunny Bunch. A guide advocates for more equal opportunities for Sherpas.
Squamish Series: The Early Days
The late 1950s and early 1960s marked the arrival of Highway 99 in that small logging town, and a shift in climbers’ interest from peaks with pointy summits to rock faces with technical challenges. In this Web feature, Ed Cooper and Dick Culbert reflect on those early days leading up to the first ascent of the Grand Wall in 1961.