Committed
Featuring Britain’s best rock climbers, plus top overseas visitors, and packing in over 200 ‘E’ points of action, Committed exhibits some of the world’s hardest and most dangerous ascents.
CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSES INCREASED CLIMBING DANGER
Though slightly sensationalized, as most news tends to be, this article does point out something that seems to dovetail rather well with yesterday’s Mont Blanc Thermometer Blog. Climate change, whatever the causes, is becoming more and more obvious in relation to our favorite pastimes.
MONT BLANC THERMOMETER
The Mont Blanc Massif’s enormous expanse, divided into three separate nations, is completely free of protected status. Pro Mont Blanc aims to change that. But first they need to find out what’s going on in the region. Thus, they’re created the The Mont Blanc Thermometer…
INDIA’S MIYAR VALLEY TRIP REPORT EXPANDED
Supported by a grant from Mountain Hardwear, Pat Goodman and Dave Sharratt and I left home on August 7th bound for the Miyar Nala in India’s Himachael Pradesh. This broad, pastoral valley provides access to a series of glacier systems offering impressive rock walls and ridges to summits up to around 6,000 meters…
Fowler and Boskoff Memorial Funds
On Dec. 4th, 2006 Christine Boskoff, owner of Mountain Madness and AMGA member, and her climbing partner Charlie Fowler, one of the original AMGA examiners, were scheduled to return from a personal climbing adventure on Genyn Peak, Sichuan Province, China. Charlie’s body was found at the base of the north face, where he was laid to rest by an apparent avalanche. The body of Christine was discovered seven months later on July 3, 2007 around the same height as Charlie. The pair were likely caught in a fatal avalanche on the peak in November of 2006.