In commemoration of the centennial, the American Alpine Club has prepared a remarkable online exhibit of photographs, artifacts, and stories from the first ascent. Curated and written by Jonathan Waterman, author of four books on Denali, the exhibit tells the story of Frederick Cook's bogus claim for the first ascent, the Sourdough Expedition's climb of Denali's north peak in 1910, and the successful ascent of the main peak in 1913.
6/5/13 - A dramatic helicopter rescue saved two climbers in the Yukon’s Kluane National Park last month after more than 20 feet of snow trapped them high on a previously unclimbed mountain. Derek Buckle (U.K.) and Paul Knott (New Zealand) had completed the first ascent of Mt. Eaton (ca. 10,945 feet), a peak east of Mt. Augusta in the St. Elias Range.
5/29/13 - On their third attempt, Mark Allen and Graham Zimmerman completed the probable second ascent of Mt. Laurens, a 10,042-foot peak in the Alaska Range, via a new route on the northeast buttress. Laurens lies along a ridge line that extends southward from the Fin, a prominent summit along the southwest ridge of Mt. Foraker.
5/15/13 - Alexey Bolotov, 50, who planned to start a new route on Everest's southwest face this week with Denis Urubko, has died in a fall fairly low on the mountain. The top Russian climber reportedly fell in the Khumbu Icefall.
4/29/13 - Three well-known climbers fending off a mob of angry Sherpas after an altercation on the Lhotse Face of Mt. Everest.
4/26/13 - The Neptune Mountaineering gear shop in Boulder has appealed to the social media community for help after a man walked out of the store with a pair of boots without paying for them.
During the same week that Dani Arnold and David Lama climbed a direct new route up the east face of the Moose's Tooth in Alaska, Scott Adamson and two different partners climbed two more new routes, including the first free ascent of the gigantic face.
Dani Arnold and David Lama have climbed a bold and difficult route up the storied east face of the Moose's Tooth in Alaska. The Swiss-Austrian duo raced up the nearly mile-high route above the Buckskin Glacier in just two long days.
Climbing asked partners, friends, and admirers of the late Layton Kor to write a few words in tribute: Jeff Achey, Pat Ament, Chris Archer, John Gill, Steve Komito, Jim McCarthy, Royal Robbins, Steve Roper
4/22/13 - Layton Kor, one of the most prolific and acomplished American climbers of the 1960s, has died at age 74. Kor had suffered from kidney failure and prostate cancer.
Stymied by temperatures too cold for his planned route, as well as a sick partner, Samuel Johnson soloed the southeast face of Mt. Hayes (ca. 13,875'), the highest peak in the eastern Alaska Range.
Ben Erdmann, Jess Roskelley, and Kristoffer Szilas have climbed a very difficult ice and mixed route on the Citadel (8,250') in Alaska's Kichatna Spires. The three men climbed Hypa Zypa Couloir (ED AI5+ M6+ 5.10R A3) in a 70-hour round-trip from base camp, with two frigid bivouacs.
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