| 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. query.nytimes.com |
When a Mountaintop Might as Well Have Been the Moon When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, stood on the summit of Mount Everest, it seems as if they were making the last “giant leap for mankind” of pre-space-age generations. nytimes.com |
Free-Solo Climber Prefers the Unencumbered Ascent Michael Reardon is the leader of a group of free soloists in Southern California that he calls the Outlaws. nytimes.com |
Hit the Heights, but Take the Stairs Climbing with fixed cables is a quick way, if not the purists’ way, for novices to experience the exhilaration of the climb. travel.nytimes.com |
NATIONAL BRIEFING | NORTHWEST; Washington: Climber's Body Found In Crater Body of mountain climber Joseph Bohlig, who fell into crater atop Mount St Helens, is found query.nytimes.com |