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Posted December 10, 2007

Keep Working at What You Love

Just saw the notice about the fire. My stomach turns at the thought of all those back issues burning. I had just saved enough to buy that set of the first 10 issues, but my inconvenience pales in comparison to your very real material loss and the shock of seeing so much work go up in smoke. It also reminds me that the most important thing is to keep working at what you love and make your own adventures; no back issue or water bottle makes up for inhaling ice-crystals and grit at 3 am, wanting to puke while placing gear, or simply topping out with a good friend and splitting the last gulp of water.



Posted December 4, 2007

A TRAPEZE NET AND SOME FREE SOLOING. WAIT, WHAT?

"Squamish climber Matt Maddaloni rigged a 30-foot-diameter trapeze net, fashioned from fishing net and industrial-strength bungy cord, to protect his attempts to free-solo a 5.13a route."



Posted November 28, 2007

San Juan Mountain Majesty

This is my first post on alpinist.com, not that that matters. Anyways, I wanted to post two pictures from a recent trip to the San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado, where a group I was with climbed Wetterhorn Peak, one of the 54 14ers in the state. Hopefully these are considered alpinism/mountaineering pics... if not, I hope you enjoy them anyways! Thanks for taking a look.



Posted November 26, 2007

VIEWS OF ANNAPURNA'S EAST RIB IN DECEMBER 1987

I attempted a winter attempt on the East Rib with a 9 member US/Canadian team in December 1987. Most of the climbing was done by me, Ken Reville and our Sherpa Pemba. We reached about 23,000' on the East Rib and were turned back by a big storm. At the same time a large Japanese party was climbing the Bonnington Route. The two who made the main summit perished on their descent.



Posted November 21, 2007

NAMASTE AND GREETINGS FROM NEPAL

As a leader of our community and well informed about the effect of global warming, i feel it is my duty to spread awareness of this issue to all concerned authorities, environmentalists, local community and all our mountaineering friends. The natural treasures are for all of us...



Posted November 20, 2007

ENERVATED OLD MAN RELINQUISHES HIS ANGER. FOR NOW.

I, in keeping with my anonymous internet persona of constant, indignant rage, took this as a glaring example of nanny-state meddling and risk averse "progressive" loony-tunes protecting me from myself.



Posted November 19, 2007

THE RISKS OF ADVENTURE SPORTS/PEOPLE

Public attention in these sports generally focuses on tragedies and as such are highly emotive and sensationalized. Dramatic accounts of accidents and hardships often lead to fierce debates on the merits and ethics of these sports.



Posted November 16, 2007

ALL SHOULD FEAR THE DANGER OF LADDERS. NOT BOLT LADDERS.

Yes, that's right. Ladders. Now, this may blur the line for a climbing website, but I did find it by googling "climbing", so I feel moderately vindicated. Following, is my slightly longer rant that will theoretically tie us back to the actual act of climbing mountains or rocks or small rocks or whatever else it is that we do..



Posted November 15, 2007

EIFFEL TOWER PROTEST CLIMB LEADS TO ARREST

"Mike Robertson (45) of Wareham, Dorset, the deep-water soloist, photographer and recent Banff award-winning author of Deep Water was arrested on Monday whilst climbing the Eiffel Tower in Paris. "Mike was protesting against Total's - the French oil company, based in Paris - continued involvement in Burma..."



Posted November 14, 2007

CLIMBING AND GLOBAL WARMING CONVERGE IN ANTARCTICA

"The sky was stunningly blue and clear and there was no wind; you only get a few days like this each summer on Antarctica's highest mountains. Where we expected to encounter snow between the bands of rock we found hard, clear "water ice" similar to that on the frozen waterfalls we had climbed in Europe and North America. As its name would suggest, such ice is formed directly from water, usually running water. It is not the compacted snow or hard blue glacial ice that is almost everywhere else in Antarctica."



Posted November 13, 2007

ANTS. SLING FAILURE. THESE TWO SHOULD NOT GO TOGETHER.

Oh yeah? Really? As if I didn't have enough to be concerned about, now I learn that a chemical secreted by ants can cause rappel slings to fail. Great.



Posted November 9, 2007

TRIP REPORT: LATOK III SEES SECOND ALPINE-STYLE ASCENT

In 2005, a two-man Spanish team took seven days to climb the route in alpine style. Our aim was to repeat the route in alpine style and confirm that Pakistan is a great destination for these kinds of ascents.



Posted November 9, 2007

TRIP REPORT: YUTU SUMMIT PROVES ELUSIVE AS NAMESAKE RABBIT

On summit day we thought we could simply climb to the ridge and follow it to the glacier, which would lead to some easy rock towards the summit. How wrong we were.



Posted November 8, 2007

Non-Fiction: Cruisin' with Susan

We'd both wanted to do it. We lay there on the ground, shivering in the night air as much from fear as from the cold.



Posted November 7, 2007

Mark Twight Apparently Was Also Experiencing Hallucinations...

Mark Twight apparently was also experiencing hallucinations (or just a bad memory) as he appears to have confused two passages from Snow in the Kingdom.



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