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... Coyne. A newly discovered area on the south side of Big Thompson Canyon was developed by various combinations of Mark Wilford, Randy Joseph, Bill Wylie and Skip Guerin; the routes are in the 5.9 to 5.11 range and, although short, are mostly of good quality. Jeff Lowe and Tim Kudo climbed a very hard new route on the Ames Wall near Ophir, Seamstress Corner (5.11+ or 5.12-). With three pitches of 5.10, two of hard 5.11 (or 5.12), and a finish ...
... , Rasmussen and Luke Miller climbed Middle Earth (VI 5.11~ A4), a 19-pitch bottom-to-top crack climb to the right of Tricks of the Tramp on Isaac. (Climbing 174) Zion, Road Kill. It was reported that, while filming a video about big wall climbing, Jeff Lowe and his "student," Scott Thompson, put up the route Road Kill (V 5.11 A4), a nine-pitch route on an 1,lOO-foot wall near the park's west entrance. (Rock and Ice 83) SAN RAFAEL SWELL SanRafael Swell, La Pifiata. On November 9 ...
... go out and climb. But that's left unsaid. So what to do with it? The next time someone asks you, "How do you get the rope up there in the first place?' you can tell them to go read Rock Climbing. BURTON LEE The Ice Experience, by Jeff Lowe. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1979. 211 pages, with photographs. $6.95. After writing much of Yvon Chouinard's ice book, I was naturally curious to see what Jeff Lowe would do with the subject. But before I would see the book, I had a ...
... this description was Breashears'obvious senseof respectfor Bass-not a hint of leader/client arroganceor condescension.So,yes, Everesttakesup acer- tain proportion of the book, a certain proportion of Breashears'life, but theseexcursions are the rewards of a long and, to me, more interesting mountain life. The trip to Kwangde with Jeff Lowe is the climb Breashearsrates as his finest moun- taineering achievement. This is clearly the judgment first and foremost of a climber, not someoneseeking the public eye. Likewise, the early rock climb upon which Breashearsfirst madehis reputation was Kloberdanz, a relatively obscureroute in a relatively obscureplace. 412 THE ...
... , your struggle will be the less."' How many of your heroes perished while vying to spend their 80th birthday in the extremity of their calling? Tilman stands alone, and Madge calls it squarely in The Last Hero. JONATHANWATERMAN Ice World: Techniques and Experiences of Modern Ice Climbing. Jeff Lowe. The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1996. 256 pages, color photos. $29.95. Waterfall Ice: Jefl Lowe's Climbing Techniques. Arctic Wolf, REVIEWS 336 Nederland, Colorado, 1995. Video. 180 minutes. $39.95. These sibling productions from Jeff Lowe ...
... Top Mesa is among the highest sand- Freeing Zion's Thunderbird Wall stone walls in the world. Its sole route, the Thunderbird Wall, was finally climbed by Ron Olevsky and Earl Redfern in 1986 after five attempts and the aforementioned lost rack. Astonishingly, the undisputed founder of modern Zion climbing, Jeff Lowe, had attempted the wall as far back as 1971. At the time, such classic routes as Spaceshot, Touchstone, and Desert Shield were still unclimbed. Lowe is a different cat, though. He wanted big adventure, and he knew Zion was the place to find it. ...
... I, Northwest Face. In late August Brian Edmiston and I, both from Carbondale, Colorado, freed the 60-foot A3 hook traverse on the stunning 1,000-foot Northwest Face route on Warrior I at IV 5.11R. No bolts or pins were placed. First climbed in 1970 by George Lowe and Jeff Lowe at IV 5.9 A3, the Northwest Face involves mostly straight- forward jamming on stellar battleship-gray granite. I took one 25-foot penduluming leader fall on the crux second-pitch (the site of the hook traverse) and returned to the belay before head- ing back up to link the ...
... rock and somewhat dangerous with soft rock and loose blocks. After the first day we spent much of our time complaining and very little enjoying the climb. There was SONIC'fun climbing but the ugliness of the rest hardly makes it a worthwhile climb. NCCS VI, F8, A3. 23 bolts. JEFF LOWE Moonlight Buttress. Zion National Park. This climb is% mile north of Angel's Landing on the west side of the canyon. Harry Freshman, Burt Redmayne and I made an abortive attempt on this prominent buttress last spring. When Mike Weiss and I arrived in Zion last October, the ...
... we retreated,reaching BaseCamp on May 27. The route is one of the finest I have beenon and hasjust the combination of features I am looking for: steep,technical mixed ground, and altitude. Above all, it's asafeline. There is nothing hanging over you, soyou canjust relax and enjoy the outrageousclimbing. JEFF LOWE Lobuje West Winter Ascent, 1987. Seldom-attempted Lobuje West was scaled so quickly by a Korean expedition's advanceparty that when the team leader Lee Hee-Bong and other climbers arrived at their base,they learned that the mountain had already been climbed and all tents and other gear brought down. In this first winter ...
... mainly on snow and ice with faster progress. We decided to abandon the attempt. It took two days to descend in blizzard-like weather. DAI LAMPARD, British Mountaineering Council Nameless Tower, Trango Tavers. Our five-person international climbing team was composed of Frenchwoman Catherine Destivelle, Swiss Lucien Abbe, and Americans Jeff Lowe, Jim Bridwell and me, with additional filming support from Paul Sharp, Veronique Choa, James Brundige and Kim Lowe. The expedition was co-led by Jeff Lowe and me: During our approach march in early August, we decided to change our objective from attempting the first free ascent of ...
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