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On May 26, Mark Allen and Graham Zimmerman established a new route in the northwest fork of the Lacuna Glacier on the southern ridgeline of Mt. Foraker. Their climb, "To the Center" ( AK 4 AI2, 4500'), runs along a couloir for the majority of its 4,500 feet, then strikes a thin and precarious southeast ridgeline. There, the two climbed to the route's 12,214-foot pinnacle in five hours and forty-five minutes. This ridgeline also links two of their previous attempts at the ridge's high point, and they said
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Mark Allen and Graham Zimmerman of Washington State have established a significant new route on the southeast buttress of Mt. Bradley (9,104) in the Ruth Gorge of the Alaska Range. Noteworthy for its sustained difficulty, the route also marks an early start to the season: Allen and Zimmerman were likely the [...]
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Mark Allen and Graham Zimmerman of Washington State have established a significant new route on the southeast buttress of Mt. Bradley (9,104') in the Ruth Gorge of the Alaska Range. Noteworthy for its sustained difficulty, the route also marks an early start to the season: Allen and Zimmerman were likely the only climbers braving a series of early April storms on the high peaks. Vitalogy (Alaska Grade V: M6+ WI5 5.9 R A1, 4,600') ascends what Zimmerman calls "a striking line of ice" about 350 meters right
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from The Alpinist - newswire
On January 25, Americans Ian Nicholson and Graham Zimmerman climbed the east face of Los Gemelos in the French Valley of Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia. Their initial objective was to climb La Hoja and Espada, peaks on the opposite side of the valley from Los Gemelos. However, typical Patagonian tempests delayed their climbing attempts for weeks. They attempted the west face of La Hoja four times, but were thwarted by icy conditions, poor protection and poor rock. "Small bits of good
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