from The Alpinist - newswire
In late spring, a team from New Zealand summited Dogonomba (5962m), a day's travel from Chengdu and north of the impressive Minya Konka (7556m), in China's Daxue Shan mountain range. Over the course of four days, Tim Church and Yvonne Pflueger made--what they believed was--its first ascent. It wasn't until the climbers succeeded and returned to New Zealand that they discovered their ascent was not, in fact, Dogonomba's first summit. Research revealed that an American guide had soloed the peak in late 2008
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
Yesterday I took Yvonne and Giles on their second day of their winter skills course for the Ice Factor. We planned on having a journey day so we walked upto Stob Coire nan Lochain via the SW ridge. From the summit we walked over to Bidean nam Bian and then decended into the Lost Vally and back to the car. The snow was very wet and sticky, crampons were balling up after every other step despite having anti-balling plates! A very busy day on the hill. Today I was on Aonach Mor going over some rope work ...
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
Today I went out with Yvonne and Giles up to Buachaille Etive Beag to develope their winter skills. Headed up to the col between the two peaks and practiced movement skills with and without crampons, axe skills, self arresting, avalanche awareness, route planning, talked about the weather and how it can affect us. There was very little wind today and views in all directions. Many teams up on the mountain with us, a busy Saturday.
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