| ON YOUR OWN; Adventure Time on the Rocks LEAD: TO imagine what it is like to be an ice climber, think of yourself perched along the face of a frozen waterfall. Picture the waterfall as a cascade of glass chandeliers overhanging a rock wall. You are picking your way up slowly. In your hand is an ice hammer, and a piton or ice screw for securing a belay rope to the top. nytimes.com |
China: Body of U.S. Climber Recovered Rescuers recovered the body of a second climber on Monday after an avalanche buried a team of three American mountaineers in southwestern China last week. nytimes.com |
Charles S. Houston, Who Led a Failed Himalayan Climb, Dies at 96 Dr. Houston was a mountain climber and an expert on high-altitude medicine whose effort to reach the summit of K-2 ended in the death of one of his team. nytimes.com |
Korean Is First Woman to Scale 14 Highest Peaks South Korea reacted with pride after Oh Eun-sun reached the summit of Annapurna in Nepal. nytimes.com |
Avalanches Kill 7 in Northern Italy Three rescuers were among the dead in one accident, and a 14-year-old German skier died in another. nytimes.com |