Possibly the best female alpinist ever, in this short video Catherine Destivelle, talks about her 1994, solo ascent of the Bonatti Route on the Matterhorn in winter. This is an extremely serious route, and it was the first time it had been repeated after Bonatti's first ascent in 1965.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Hock on the 5.7 "Razor" Pitch
Selden and Gary getting ready to frame the cabin
Fossils on Ishinca (18,500')
A bunch of old guys still enjoying the mountains, and the training they need to do to get off the couch
Books I Am Reading
- Alpine Rising
- The Chalet
- Cham
Total Pageviews
Popular Posts
-
We came from nowhere towns like Upland, Cucamonga, Ontario, and Montclair. None of us had done anything more distinguished than chase down... -
KURTYKA WAS A LEADING PROPONENT OF FAST AND LIGHT IN THE 1970s and 1980s. This is a historically important essay written in 1988. The Art ... -
The spectacular fall weather continued, and I logged just under 15 hours, on 136k (113k bike and 23k run), with 3250' vertical. I also d...
-
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/opinion/body-muscles-40s-aging.html
-
I ran into Pete Metcalf in the Tetons a couple of years before he did this groundbreaking alpine style route, and maybe a decade before he s... -
It started with a very chilly but quite nice mountain biking excursion on the rail trail. The middle of the day had me start to re-read A Me...
-
Last week I re-read A Medal Of Honor, a novel about an Olympic biathlete, this week it's The God Of Skiing. A novel about a fictional T...
Posts
Blog Archive
-
▼
2019
(340)
-
▼
June
(26)
- Lucy’s training
- QUOTE OF THE WEEK ... a physiology haiku
- BLAST FROM THE PAST ... 1969 long island champions
- More about Himalayan glacier melt
- Next week in Peru
- Easy recovery from four hard days of travel
- Another spectacular Adirondack sunset
- Beautiful Boulder on my run
- Himalayan glaciers melting much faster than predicted
- More Lucy biathlon ...
- The things you find when you clean your desk out a...
- Some good vertical this weekend
- Mountain Journal’s continuing essay of 365 days o...
- BLAST FROM THE PAST ... Catherine Destivelle
- First On The Rope ... and other climbing novels
- Lucy’s biathlon workout
- Kilian Jornet ... the man, the myth, the legend
- More thoughts about the Cordillera Blanca
- Running the Tahoe 200
- Increasing the vertical ... getting ready for the ...
- Planning another day-hike in the Cordillera Blanca
- The 1921, 1922, and 1924 Everest expeditions ... i...
- Another good issue of Alpinist magazine
- Laguna Wilcacocha ... our first acclimatization run
- Ramping up the volume for the Cordillera and Chamonix
- Another great semi-rad post
-
▼
June
(26)
Important Climbing And Skiing Website Links
Aiguille de Gliere
Hock on the 5.7 "Razor" Pitch
Hock's best. What were your Five biggest and best routes?
- South Ridge of the Gliere
- North Ridge of the Grand Teton
- North Buttress of Middle Cathedral
- Sentinel Rouge on Mount Blanc
- Black Dike on Cannon
Hock's handful of could have, would have, wished I had, and still hope to do routes!
- West Face Tocllaraju
- North Face of the Matterhorn
- Black Ice Colouir on the Grand Teton
- Cassin Ridge on Denali
Fossil Clubhouse
Selden and Gary getting ready to frame the cabin
Cordillera Blanca
Fossils on Ishinca (18,500')