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... , the Brooks Range, The Wind Rivers, Moab, New Mexico, Patagonia, and the Gunks. What has he been doing? Climbing, caving, bicycling, bouldering, golfing, river running, llama herding. elbow bending and writing, writing, writing. Whom has he seen? Jeff Lowe, Roman Dial, Ed Viesturs. Richard Bangs. and his long-time tramping buddies, Jon Krakauer and Matt Hale, among others. I could end this review right here by saying there is not a trip that he describes that does not stimulate the green worm of envy (those wriggling ...
... Tirtha and Mingmar were on the summit. On the last part, from 8100 meters to the summit, they did not follow the normal route but took a new variant on the northeast ridge. ORESIT FORNO,Club Alpino Italian0 Makalu West Face Attempts. The west face of Makalu was also attempted by American Jeff Lowe and French climbers Catherine Destivelle and Erik Decamp. After acclimatization, they divided. Lowe turned to the route unsuccessfully tried in 1981 by Pole Wojciech Kurtyka and Briton Alex MacIntyre. He was dismayed to find that the Italians also had permission to attempt the same route and were a week ahead ...
... climbing outing in the Adirondacks, and our tradi- tional black tie Annual Dinner, which was run as a benefit for the Club Library. Lecturers this year included: Eric Perlman on the First Ascent of Jade Dragon Peak; John lacovino and Chip Kamin on the 1987 Pittsburgh Ama Dablam Expedition; Jeff Lowe on "Invisible Climbs" and Barry Bishop on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the first American ascent of Everest in 1963. A Spring social featured slide shows by Peter Bruchhausen on Antarctica, Garrett Bowden on Aconcagua, Fred Selby on Skiing the Haute Route and Gerry Bloch on his ...
... From the berg- schrund just right of a prominent patch of bare rock we made five and a CLIMBS AND EXPEDITIONS I43 half 200-foot leads of ice directly to the top. There was very steep ice at the schrund and some 55" sections above. DEAN RAU Mount Forhm. Northwst Faw. Jeff Lowe, Graham Thompson and I walked in to Glacier Lake and the following day forded the stream emerging from the Lye11Glacier to bivouac on a moraine near the junc- tion of the Mons and North Forbes glaciers. The climb was directly up the northwest face, which was in excellent condition for ...
... four ascentswithout bottled oxygen, including the only winter ascent without it. MICHAEL J. CHENEY, Himalayan Club, and ELIZABETH HAWLEY Nuptse Artempr. On October 10, after four bivouacs, the two members, Italians Enrico Rossoand Fabrizio Manoni, reached6700 meterson the south spur of Nuptse, previously attemptedtwice by Jeff Lowe. They abandonedthe climb becauseof bad snow conditions. MICHAEL J. CHENEY, Himalayan Club. and ELIZABETH HAWLEY Nuptse Atfempt. Like the Italian teamthis season,Americans Rob Newsom and his companion wanted to climb the south spur of Nuptse, attempted previously by Jeff Lowe. This pair never even got onto ...
... managed to climb such a line in 1986, with the techniques and gear used 17 years ago, was truly outstanding. At that time high-standard ice climbing was still in its infancy in the Alps, and waterfall climbing was barely known in the alpine valleys. This was true even though photographs of Jeff Lowe on Bridalveil Falls (Colorado, 1974) fascinated the young generation in the Alps. A few Europeans NO SIESTA The first free (dry tooling) ascent of perhaps the hardest mixed route in the Alps, on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses, France. ROBERT JASPER One of ...
... face and climbed a snow a&e to the first steep cliff band. We followed a snow ramp to the right for two pitches to the ledge separating the upper from the lower cliff band. We then climbed directly above on a sometimes rotten prow to the flat summit. NCCS III, F8. JEFF LOWE CANADA Yukon Territory Mount Logan. On June 10 Bruce Gilbert, Paul Swift, Dick Folta and I were landed at about 8900 feet on the Quintino Sella Glacier. By June 16 Camp IV A was established in the seracs above King Col. However, our push toward the plateau on ...
... The return voyage back to Cape Town was completed in 16 days. The total distance sailed-Cape Town-South Georgia-Cape Town- was 15,000 kilometers. JOHN R. Moss, Mountain Club of South Africa EUROPE Eiger. A full article on the remarkable solo climb of the north face of the Eiger in winter by Jeff Lowe appears earlier in this Journal. It should be noted that Lowe's good friend, Catherine Destivelle, made the first female solo winter ascent in the late winter of 1992. Stortind Southwest Ridge, Norway. There is a complete article on this climb in Norway earlier in this Journal. OCEANIA ...
... The return voyage back to Cape Town was completed in 16 days. The total distance sailed-Cape Town-South Georgia-Cape Town- was 15,000 kilometers. JOHN R. Moss, Mountain Club of South Africa EUROPE Eiger. A full article on the remarkable solo climb of the north face of the Eiger in winter by Jeff Lowe appears earlier in this Journal. It should be noted that Lowe's good friend, Catherine Destivelle, made the first female solo winter ascent in the late winter of 1992. Stortind Southwest Ridge, Norway. There is a complete article on this climb in Norway earlier in this Journal. OCEANIA ...
... 5,644 m). We climbed the route in pg236-253_Peru.indd 244 6/30/06 10:10:24 AM ClimBs and expediTions: peru 245 single-push lightweight style, tak- ing 12 hours to the summit and nine hours to descend the north face. The hardest part of the route was climbed by Jeff Lowe in 1985, but he retreated 250m below the top. He graded his 700m climb ED+ and considered it one of his hardest solo climbs. After acclimatizing on Chopicalqui, we took the fastest approach to Trapecio, starting from the village of Queropalca. In two days we reached base ...
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