The father-and-son team of John and Jess Roskelley has given up on 23,400-foot Gaurishankar in Tibet. (See my original report here.) The unclimbed Northeast Face, their original objective, had much less snow and ice than antcipated, and the duo was neither equipped for the necessary rock climbing nor prepared to risk the incessant rockfall. They switched to the Northeast Ridge but retreated after finding a "house of cards" of loose rock on the upper ridge.
About Me
- Dougald MacDonald
- I work full-time as a freelance writer and editor: associate editor, American Alpine Journal; news editor, Climbing.com; contributing editor, 5280 magazine; frequent contributor to Backpacker, Men's Journal, Outside, 5280, and other magazines. I was editor in chief and publisher of Rock and Ice magazine for five years, and cofounded Trail Runner magazine. During the 1990s, I was editor in chief of the Denver Business Journal.
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Sadly, my book is now out of print. I have a few brand-new copies that I will sign and send for $50, including postage. (They're currently over $100 on Amazon.) Click on "my complete profile" above for contact info. I hope to find a new publisher to bring out a second edition, but this could be it.
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