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1996
Mugs Stump Award Winners:
• Gregory Collum,
Greg Child, Chuck Boyd,
and Greg Foweraker, will attempt the Southeast
Face of Shipton Spire in the Karakoram Himalaya of Pakistan.
Collum and Boyd tried a different route on this virgin rock
spire in 1992, turning back just below the summit in bad weather
after 36 pitches of climbing.
• Mark Synnott,
Warren Hollinger, and Jeff Chapman
will attempt the 4500-foot North Face of Polar Sun Spire in
the remote eastern fjords of Baffin Island in northern Canada.
After this climb, the trio plans to make a ski traverse from
Walker Arm to Gibbs Fjord, an area that has probably not been
visited by non-native people before.
• Gary Ryan, Pat
Adams, and Tyler Young will attempt
a free ascent of the 1963 McCarthy/Robbins/Kor/McCracken route
on the Southeast Face of Mount Proboscis in the Northwest
Territories of Canada. The trio’s goal is to push the
limits of traditional free climbing on this remote big wall
by free climbing the original aid route with minimal fixed
gear and no fixed ropes.
• Minot Maser and
Charlie Wolf will attempt the first ascent
of Mount Miller, via the 4500-foot Northwest Ridge. At 8875
feet, Mount Miller is the highest unclimbed peak in Alaska’s
Wrangell/Saint Elias Park.
• Will Hair and
Jose Pereyra will attempt a free ascent of
the Japanese Route on Auyen Tepui, a 3000-foot sandstone wall
near Angel Falls in Southern Venezuela. Pereyra, who has aided
the route, says it could be the South American equivalent
of free-climbing The Nose or Salathe Wall on El Capitan.
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