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[11]: 347 As a member of the American Alpine Club Spitzer established the "Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Climbing Award" which gives $12,000 to several mountain climbing expeditions annually. [ 12 ] Mary Jobe Akeley, who explored the Selkirk Mountains and much of British Columbia between 1907 and 1914, was an early member.
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, The World's Most Feared Mountain. New York: William Morrow. "Review of BBC documentary". Inside Story – Alison's Last Mountain'. Archived from the original on 17 June 2006. Rose, David; Douglas, Ed (2000). Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves ...
Johnson departed from Portland, Oregon with the other nine members of the expedition from the Mazamas Climbing Club on January 19, 1973. She was considered one of the strongest climbers of the team. They arrived at Punta de Vacas and two days later arrived at a base camp located at 14,000 feet.
May 17—TWO NEW indoor bouldering and rock climbing gyms on the Seacoast allow customers to reach new heights. Seacoast Climb opened at 6 Airfield Drive in Rye with nearly 2,000 square feet of ...
Hobo Hill, New York, 1967: "Dick Hoban's Porsche RSK was the fastest of 46 cars at the Hobo Hill hillclimb, Bellvale, N.Y., April 30. Hoban, who holds the absolute record of 38.8 seconds, went up the hill in 39 seconds." [27] Bernie Switkes (Porsche Carrera) won an event held there on October 15, 1967. [28]
Ampersand Mountain is a 3,352 ft (1,021.7 m) mountain in Franklin County in the High Peaks Wilderness Area of the northeastern Adirondacks, west of the High Peaks proper in New York State. The trail up the mountain begins on New York State Route 3 8.1 miles (13.0 km) southwest of the village of Saranac Lake , near Middle Saranac Lake ; it is a ...
The documentary is about Project Possible, a plan by Nepali high altitude climber Nirmal Purja to climb all of the world's 14 highest peaks with an altitude greater than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) (called eight-thousanders) inside 7 months (i.e. from early spring to late summer, before the winter season begins).
Davis was born in Illinois and grew up in New Jersey and Columbia, Maryland. [1] [7] Her father, Virgil, was an aeronautical engineer and her mother, Connie, a school teacher. [7] Davis describes herself as an unathletic child; [8] she was a straight-A student and very musical. [7] She grew up playing the piano from the age of three using the ...