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Finding Stonehenge in the Picket Range
Jason Schilling follows the airy traverse into the notch on the seventh pitch of Stonehenge. In early July Schilling and Halder climbed the new route on the South Face of the Himmelhorn in the Picket...
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Broad Peak Avalanche Leaves One Dead, Injured Climbers Wait for Evacuation
Broad Peak seen from Concordia. Photo from July 2005. [Photo] Florian Ederer/Wikimedia Commons An avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak (8051m) killed one high altitude porter and seriously injured two...
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Kate Rutherford and Jasmin Caton Author Long Routes in B.C.'s Purcell Wilderness
Under lowering clouds, Kate Rutherford descends Block Tower after completing the first ascent of The Slim Princess (5.10, 250m). [Photo] Jasmin Caton A few weeks after climbing the Westie Face (5.12d...
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Fatality in the Alps: Martijn Seuren
[Photo] Emmanuel Boutet/Wiki Commons On Wednesday morning, July 22, Martijn Seuren, an accomplished 32-year-old Dutch alpinist, died after a fall from a ridge on the Mont Blanc massif on the border of...
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A Wild Tour in the Canadian Rockies: Taming Bucking Horse Rider on Mt. Louis
July 20, 2015: Paul McSorley starts up Pitch 3 on Bucking Horse Rider (5.11a A0, 600m) at dawn on day two. Between July 19 and 20, McSorley, Jason Ammerlaan and Tony McLane established Bucking Horse...
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Half Dome Rockfall Update: RNWF Likely Now Climbable
Photo taken on July 7, 2015--a few days after an immense rockfall on Pitches 11 and 12--by a NPS climbing patrol who climbed the first 10 pitches of the Regular Northwest Face to gather information on...
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Climbing Greenland's Biggest Wall
The team, minus Matt Pycroft--who is behind the lens--on the summit of the Mirror Wall after climbing the first ascent of the northwest face via Reflections (E6 6b/5.12c A3+, 1200m). Mirror Wall is...
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Link Sar Fever
Andy Houseman on the final ridge to the West Summit of Link Sar (6938m). The halo formed around the sun is a sign of ice crystals in the air and incoming storms. Between July 12 and 18 Jon Griffith...
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Ueli Steck Interview: Climbing all 82 4000-Meter Peaks in the Alps
Ueli Steck on Punta Margherita (4066m), one of six 4000-meter summits along the Italian/French Grandes Jorasses ridge traverse. Steck began his 62-day, 82-summit push on June 11 in Switzerland and...
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Update: Half Dome's RNWF
Half Dome's Northwest Face as seen from North Dome. [Photo] Eric Bissell/Yosemite Climbing Management August 19: In response to rumors about the condition of Half Dome's Regular Northwest Face (5.9...
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Blood on the Crack: The Will Stanhope Interview
Will Stanhope leading The WooWoo pitch, 5.13, on the Tom Egan Memorial Route (5.9 A3, Hatten-Simpson, 1978; FFA: 5.14, Stanhope, August 2015). Between August 11 and 14, Stanhope completed the first...
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New Andinism: First Winter Ascent of Aguja Principal in Chile's Millalifen Range
The Millalifen Range of Curarrehue, Chile, in Parque Nacional Villarrica near the Chilean-Argentine border. On August 14, Chilean mountain guides Juan Senoret, Leonardo Bastias and Gabriel Navarrete...
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Disco in the Midnight Sun: UK Climbers Free Steep Norwegian Route
Jacob Cook in flight on Pitch 7 (7b+). Dave MacLeod and Cook, joined by Calum Muskett, spent several weeks working to free Disco 2000 (A2+ 400m, Blixt-Krane, February 2000; FFA: 8a+/5.13c,...
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DiGiulian, Traversi Climb Eiger's Magic Mushroom
On August 29, Sasha DiGiulian, 22, and Carlo Traversi, 27, completed a free ascent of Magic Mushroom (EX-: 5.13a, 600m, Hainz-Schaeli, 2007; Redpoint: Siegrist-Theurillat-Weber, 2009) on the right...
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Passing the Torch: Bennett and Zimmerman's First Karakoram Expedition
Changi Tower: Graham Zimmerman leading rock on Day 1. Between August 8 and 10, Scott Bennett, Steve Swenson and Zimmerman completed the first ascent of Changi Tower (6500m) by the North Ridge (M6 5.10...
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Martinez and Rada Climb Yukon's Mt. Malaspina
Camilo Rada and Natalia Martinez spent three days exploring the heavily crevassed glacier at Mt. Malaspina's (3776m) base prior to settling on their route up the East Ridge. On August 15, Rada of...
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Alexander Ruchkin and Vyacheslav Ivanov Die on South Face of Huandoy Sur
The South Face of Nevado Huandoy Pico Sur (6160m), the southernmost of Huandoy's four summits, in Peru's Cordillera Blanca. On August 27, Alexander Ruchkin and Vyacheslav Ivanov died while attempting...
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Interview with Hansjorg Auer on his 985-foot 5.11+ Free Solo in the Dolomites
The West Face of Sass dla Crusc (2907m) showing Mephisto (5.11+, 985', Rieser-Schiestl, 1979). For Hansjorg Auer's free solo climb of Mephisto on August 26, he accessed the steep limestone route by...
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Early-Season Avalanche Kills Seven Climbers in the French Alps
The view from the 4015-meter Dome de Neige des Ecrins in the Massif des Ecrins in the French Alps. On September 15 an avalanche left four Germans and three Czechs dead and another 36-year-old female...
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Unattached: Pfaff, Spitzer and Van Sciver's First Ascent in Zanskar
Anna Pfaff starting Pitch 3, rated AI4 M4. On September 5, Pfaff, Rachel Spitzer and Lisa Van Sciver completed the first ascent of Tare Parvat (Star Peak; 5577m) by their route Unattached (5.6 M4 WI3...
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