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... . We had to go down. The snow conditions were bad, perhaps worse than previously, but knowing the route, we were able to reach the foot of the mountain, exhausted, late that night. PETER BOARDMAN, Alpine Climbing Group Skyang Kangri Attempt. Our lightweight expedition, consisting of Jeff Lowe and me, attempted Skyang Kangri (7544 meters, 24,750 feet) alpine-style. May 27 saw us in Dasso, May 30 in Askole and June 6 at the site of the French Base Camp at the foot of K2. The porters on the approach performed very well. The French ...
... , F9, Al), using aid for only 60 feet. In February Lou Dawson, Mike Kennedy and Steve Shea climbed the complete north face of Pyramid Peak (V, F9, Al) with one bivouac. Eldorado Canyon in Boulder saw activity in February by Dave Breash- ears, Jeff Lowe, Greg Lowe and Kevin Worral and a most ambitious free solo by Pat Adams of the Kloberdanz Roof (Fl 1). In the Estes Park area Eric Weinstein and Bruce Morris did a hard new route on the Crescent Wall. Late spring and early summer in Rocky Mountain Na- ...
... eight miles southwest of Robson and can be easily seen from the Mount Robson trail; with binoculars you can see the "white horn" on the summit formed by a large snow cornice. Until two weeks prior to our arrival, no route on the north face had been done; it was Jeff Lowe and Mike Weiss who did the first ascent directly up the middle of the face. Jeff suggested that a distinctly different route lay on the direct north ridge of the face and it was this new line that Dave Hamre and I did. We camped in meadows below the east face of ...
... ex- pensive. Most airlines refuse to transport these canisters because of their poten- tial danger. Planning for these fuel canisters to arrive by land at the last city before your trek to base camp can be a minor nightmare. Another problem is keeping the canisters warm in frigid high camps. Jeff Lowe is working on a heat exchanger made of a length of copper tubing. The ends extend into the burner flame and the body of the tube wraps around the cartridge which is enclosed in ensolite. Combined with a hang-up cable the contraption becomes a convenient set-up for cooking in difficult conditions or ...
... quite the opposite direc- tion from what he had hoped. He exchanged his boots for "slippers" and his climbing problems were over and done with. Then came Boulder. Our experi- ences in Boulder and Eldorado Canyons, Estes Park and meeting Mark Wilford and Mark's friends Nick Donally and Jeff Lowe impressed us deeply. (Most of the climbs done here and elsewhere were of 5.9 to 5. I I difficulty.--Editor.) We moved to the Yosemite. On El Capitan we chose the West Buttress because the topo in the new Yosemite guide promised free climbing, ...
... risky in these dry conditions. We returned to Base Camp on April 14. HOOMAN APRIN, Unaffiliated Kwangde Nup, North Buttress. In the pre-monsoon period, Alex Lowe and I climbed a new grade-VI route on Kwangde Nup to the right of the one done by 222 THE AMERICAN ALPINE JOURNAL I990 Jeff Lowe and David Breashears in 1982. Our route followed the north buttress, which is simply an extension of the ridge which divides the Hungo and Thame valleys. We took three days up and one day down. The first two days were mostly easy to moderate rock climbing with no pitch exceeding ...
... la), Space Cadet (5.10+) and Complications (5.11-), all one-pitch face andcrack climbs on Sheep'sNose. Malcolm Daly led Lumpy Ridge's first 5.12, Red Man, on Sundance. In Glenwood Canyon in west- central Colorado, Mike Kennedy and Jeff Lowe freed International (5.9+), a IO-pitch route that follows two granite buttressesand one limestone buttressto the top of the canyon. To Kennedy's knowledge International is the only route that climbs all the way to the Canyon rim. Kennedy and Gordon Banks also climbed Night and Fog, ...
... daring climb of the Emperor Face of Mount Robson in the Canadian Rockies (the largest unclimbed face in the Canadian Rockies) with Muggs Stump. George Lowe and Mike Kennedy gave a slide presentation of their nearly successful alpine-style ascent of Latok I (7,144 meters) in the Karakoram with Jim Donini and Jeff Lowe. Arlene Blum and Irene Miller shared their experiences on the 1978 American Women's Himalayan Expedition, which success- fully ascended Annapurna I. In the evening, at the Annual Dinner, the third annual Angelo Heil- prin Award was presented to Nick Clinch (whose acceptance speech s 358 THE ...
... physical reward of the body moving up rock."; Jean-Claude Droyer: "I liked the feeling. I liked moving on the rocks."; Wolfgang Giillich: Why is it that you climb? "It feels good to move on rock." Perhaps the most precise answer comes from Jeff Lowe in answer to a question about fear: "I like the heightened concentration that comes from that slight tension between fear and control and just feathering that edge and making sure you're on the safe side of it." One of the most interesting aspects of the book is its historical continuity ...
... I read about it in Ascent. You ever go there?" "Yeah.... I wrote the article." Despite being hesitant to disclose any more about the area because of chid- ings from some of his friends who wanted to keep the "secret" to themselves, Jeff Lowe provided me with a wealth of useful information in the few minutes that we talked. My resolve to go exploring on sandstone was strengthened. By the time that the trees had begun to turn green I had tasted many flavors of soft rock. Chime, Cutler, Entrada, Deathrock. ...
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