News from BBC Nature, Starfish "pump up" to cool down

Read the story here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8328000/8328311.stm

AAC and High Country event - October 1st

Location:
High Country
3906 Roswell Road
Atlanta, GA 30342
Phone: 404-814-0999


The AAC and High Country are having an evening with Ken Kamler this Thursday, October 1st, at 7pm. Ken is an Everest veteran and an Explorers Club member. It should turn out to be an amazing event.

Max Gallimore - new book out now!

Max Gallimore.

A good friend of mine and Explorers Club luminary has just finished his book, From Here to Caprock.
Take the time to check it out, it should be amazing.

Link to his website and book

REEL ROCK TOUR coming to Nashville 10/1

The North Face is bring REEL ROCK to Nashville, check out the details:

REEL ROCK FILM TOUR

New Bike Routes + Atlanta area

Washington County Wilderness Bill Becomes Law!

Southern Wilderness Utah Alliance Press Release

Yanapaccha, Cordillera Blanca, Peru (5460 meters)

Here are pics from the attempted new route on Yanapaccha, June of this summer. New route is in GREEN, and the standard route is in RED.
The proposed new route had 4+ ft of snow on the ridges, so it had to be aborted, and we carried on with the standard route.
The view from top of the rock mess at Morena base camp.



Here is Morena Base Camp.

We did a standard "alpine start", and even with the high altitude + moonlight most the pictures taken did not turn out.
Right before we were gearing up with ropes and crampons, I did hear an avalanche over the Huandoy massif area. It sounded like a freight train hitting a brick wall (the force of the snow and debris made an awful screeching sound on the way down, pretty gnarley stuff).

Walter Albinos, making his way up the ridge, during a short refill. As you can see, we were surrounded by clouds.

Here is a crevasse that we passed on the way up.
View of Huandoy


We ended up turning around from the bid with 120 meters left. I was exhausted after only a few hours of sleep the night before and the visibility was bad. I'll be back to climb Yanapaccha next year via a new route, as well as a few others.

Here are a few pics from Huaraz:

Huascar'an from the hotel balcony



An unclimbed peak that I may do next year. It looks a lot like the Matterhorn, with a bigger base.

At Laguna Churup