| 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 |
Outdoor Photographer Battles Brain Trauma Bobby Model, an accomplished rock climber and professional photographer who has covered outdoor adventures throughout the world, is recovering at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York after sustaining severe brain trauma when a rock crashed through his truck’s windshield in South Africa on June 7. 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 |