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Mt Nilkantha, India Climbing Trip Report
12 Dec 2017The air was humid and it was raining. Monsoon season continued later than usual. My Montana blood was not conditioned for this. If my phone didn’t say that it was 3:45 am - I would’ve believed it was 8:00 pm because of the amount of people going somewhere, doing something.…
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Climbing the NE ridge of Mt Alberta
22 Jul 2017My wife, Anne Gilbert Chase and I knew that we wanted to spend our first anniversary in the mountains. We both have spent a little bit of time in the Canadian Rockies in the winter months climbing and skiing. But haven’t spent any time in the summer. So we thought… -
Two Attempts Mt Nilkantha Garhwall India
27 Jun 2017Words by: Anne Gilbert Chase I recently returned to the U.S. from my first trip to the Indian Himalaya. Jason Thompson and myself received a Mugs Stump Award and a Lyman Spitzer Grant to attempt the unclimbed South Face of Hathi Parbat. Unfortunately because of its proximity to the China…
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Emergence in the Alaska Range
01 Jun 2016Words by Katie Bono: Emergence in the Alaska Range In the Alaska Range, climbing to the top of something is only tangentially about skill. Climbing here is an exercise in stoicism, mind-games, strategic use of good luck, and (hopefully) having enough intuition to know just how far these three will…