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A suitable route up the Abruzzi Ridge had been explored in detail, good sites for tents had been found (sites that would go on to be used in many future expeditions), and they had identified the technically most difficult part of the climb, up House's Chimney at 22,000 feet (6,700 m) (named after Bill House, who had led the two-hour climb up ...
A suitable route up the Abruzzi Ridge had been explored in detail, good sites for tents had been found (sites that would go on to be used in many future expeditions) and they had identified the technically most difficult part of the climb, up the House Chimney at 22,000 feet (6,700 m) (named after Bill House who had led the four-hour climb up ...
House's Chimney, named after American climber Bill House, is a 30-metre (100 ft) tall crack in a rock wall, located on the Abruzzi Spur of K2, a mountain on the China–Pakistan border. The 'chimney' was first climbed, and named, when House free climbed it on the 1938 American K2 expedition .
On both the 1938 expedition and the 1953 expedition, Houston had climbed the entire Abruzzi Ridge, scaling its most difficult cliffs, House's Chimney, and had been able to reach about 7,900 metres (26,000 ft) from where a feasible route to the summit could be observed. [22]
His house was moved several feet off its foundation by what he estimated was a 20-foot wall of water that came down the Green River, normally more than 100 yards from his house. He counted 13 ...
On that expedition he made the first ascent of House's Chimney which he free-climbed and was subsequently named after him. [1] [2] [3] House reached the ice traverse at the top of the Abruzzi Ridge 24,700 ft (7,500 m), between camp 6 & 7, [19] which was about 400m below the expedition's high point of 26,000 ft (7,900 m) [20] [21] a little above ...
The storm decimated Chimney Rock, N.C., a historic mountain town 20 miles southeast of Asheville. It’s virtually gone. Floodwaters leveled buildings and washed away roads and bridges.
The Bottleneck is a location along the South-East Spur (also known as Abruzzi Spur), the most-used route to the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, in the Karakoram, on the border of India and China. The Bottleneck is a narrow couloir, which is overhung by seracs from the ice field east of the summit. The couloir is located ...