Climbing, September 2005

Country: USA
Language: English
Appears: 12 times a year
Website: www.climbing.com

EDITORIAL

LETTERS

HOT FLASHES

HOT SEAT
Dani Andrada
 Ed Viesturs

HAPPENINGS
Vail’s Teva Mountain Games
New River Rendezvous

OFF THE WALL
The pros, cons, and realities of mining impact at Arizaona’s Oak Flats
Mystery chopper tags Everest’s summit.
UIAA frowns on youth bouldering comps.

PASSAGES
Jim Ratz (1953-2005)

The Russian Way 
Ultralight expeditions may have stolen American alpinists’ hearts , but the Russians are stealing the news. Accused of trashing the mountains, and awarded the Piolet d’Or last year for the first ascent of Jannu’s north face, are the Russians “irrelevant?”
by Mark Synnott

The Maelstrom
Two climbers, American and Mexican, brought together by chance and then bound by fate in the big- wall battle of their lives.
by Tom Andrews

IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU
Epic stories

The Wave
The Staircase
Black Daze
Full Circle
Trash and dangle

TECH TIPS:
Aid – Copperheading
Alpine – The deluxe kitchen on ice
Sport – Training at the crags
Trad –  Dog-eared figure-8-on-a-bight knot

PUZZLEFEST

EQUIPMENT
11 models of approach shoes reviewed
by Dave Sheldon

JUST OUT
Supper-skinny cords
Featherweight axe and crampons
Lynn Hill’s climbing camps.

REVIEWS
Jennifer Jordan: Savage Summit: The Tryde Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2
Accepteble Risk: The Story of the Jenny Lake Climbing Rangers, film by Greg Winston
Clean Walls, film by Jeff Lowe

GUIDES & TRAVEL

CLIMBER’S MARKET

ROCK GYMS

SUPPLIERS

VANTAGE POINT
Fear and loayhing in the Alaska Range
by Jeffrey L. Shackelford