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Neil Gresham on Double Scotch, Les Ecrins, France
This afternoon, when I went to check my mailbox, I found an unexpected gift -- a plain brown paper envelope with a "Royal Mail" postmark on it. Inside, I found this video from Neil Gresham....
Technology Is On My Side!
By Pat Deavoll I had the first inkling something was wrong about seven years ago. My knees and ankles started to hurt walking down the hard ice of the Hooker glacier, and I didn't want to jump crevasses, preferring to...
The Jimmy Skid Rig
By Will Meinen After the third winter of efforts, it's finally done. The Jimmy Skid Rig has been climbed. I still can't believe it as I sit here and try to figure out how to sum it up for a...
Mugs Stump Award Funds Pakistan Karakorum Expedition
Doug Chabot, a Montrail athlete, received a 2009 Mugs Stump Award for an 2-person expedition to Kuk Sar II, a peak in the Pakistan Karakorum. Doug and his partner Bruce Miller will head to Pakistan in late summer. Here, Doug...
A Midwinter's Treat
By Will Meinen "I think I'm getting heat stroke. Does anyone have anymore water?" I looked at my thermometer again to confirm my half delusional state of mind; twenty-three degrees Celsius. As messed up as it was, I wasn't going...
Back to the Matterhorn: Speed Record on the Schmid-Route
Burgdorf, Switzerland, January 20, 2009 Ueli Steck finds himself in perfect physical conditions. For the past few weeks, the weather in the Alps has been beautiful and the conditions on the great Northfaces in the Alps have been great ....
MHW Tents On Top of the World
The nice guys behind the Altitude Junkies, a guide service that specializes in Himalayan expeditions, sent us these photographs from a recent Everest trip. We thought they were quite nice, so we wanted to share them with you. All photographs...
The Abandonment of Gerard McDonnell
By Freddie Wilkinson One month ago, I wrote "Heros in Fine-print", which highlighted the actions of two Sherpas who were involved in rescuing several survivors of the K2 tragedy. In subsequent interviews with them, some new information has come to...
Calling All Blog Junkies
By Freddie Wilkinson Blog junkies, internet addicts, and virtual alpinists everywhere should take note of my friend and neighbor Kevin Mahoney's newly revised internet site, www.NewHampshireIceclimbing.com. The site is the home-page to Kevin's guide service, Mahoney Alpine Adventures. But it's...
Heros in Fine Print
By Freddie Wilkinson "On the mountain there were no heroes," K2 survivor Cas van de Gevel was recently quoted as saying in Outside Magazine, " just an unspoken agreement that you help as much as you can." Outside and Men's...
Kantega!
By Freddie Wilkinson We New Hampshire climbers like to think we're used to tough conditions. Brittle ice, no protection, minus ten degrees? Nooo proooblem... that's just like home. The thing is, you get so used to not having fun when...
Success on India's Manikaran Spires
MHW athletes Freddie Wilkinson, Janet Bergman, and Pat Goodman, along with climber/photographer Ben Ditto, tackled peak 5394 of India's Manikaran Spires. Climbing.com published this account of the group's likely first ascent. "The snowy south face of peak 5394....
Greetings from Dharamsala
By Janet Bergman I am writing with scabs on the backs of my hands and legs still sore, so the short of it is, yes, we did get to climb! As luck has it, I do not have to get...
Will's Summer Highlights: 2008
By Will Meinen Last year I had attempted the East Ridge of Mt. Edith Cavell only to get shut down hard. Too much beer the night before, a late start the next morning, and a forgotten topo amongst other things...
Paciencia: Opening A New Free Route on the Eiger
By Ueli Steck 2003 The summer was hot and the weather very stable. It's the summer of the century in Switzerland. Thanks to this long lasting and beautiful weather period of time, Stephan Siegrist and I spent nearly the whole...
New Route on the Eiger: Paciencia
By Ueli Steck New route in the Eiger Northface: "Paciencia" Length 27 pitches / 900m, difficulty 8a First ascent: Stephan Siegrist and Ueli Steck summer 2003 First freeclimb: Ueli Steck August 30, 2008 View More Photographs from Ueli and Stephan's...
Guiding the Bugaboos
By Dawn Glanc The Bugaboos, located in British Columbia, have been a place that I have read and heard about for years. Every time I saw a photo of the splitter granite spires, I would dream of climbing them....
Return from Beka Brakkai Chhok
By Pat Deavoll Trying to justify expedition climbing in the Greater Ranges to a non climber is sometimes hard, but to justify travelling half the way around the world to fail for the second time on a chosen peak can...
Mixed Meister
View Will's photographs from Mixed Meister By William Meinen Cutting your Teeth on Alpine Rock: Mixed Meister 5.10d 2400' With the weather slowly shaping up for alpine rock routes in the Rockies, I was looking for something to kick...
The Hutch Report
View Dawn's Photographs By Dawn Glanc Our trip left Seattle and headed to Glacier Bay National Park on June 13, 2008. Saturday morning, the day began with a long breakfast at the lodge. This would be our last meal...