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If you were ever a PNW climber, you probably either knew or at least knew about Dallas Kloke.

Dallas died in a fall on Mt. Larrabee.

Cascadeclimbers has more info:

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/980279/R_I_P_Dallas#Post980279

So sorry to write this:

German climbing pioneer Kurt Albert passed away in hospital yesterday evening due to the serious injuries he suffered from a fall off a popular and easy fia ferrata here in Frankenjura while guiding a group.
Kurt first ascended and partly free soloed a lot of the famous routes here. He invented the idea of "redpoint", climbed in Patagonia, the Karakorum, Baffin Island, the Antarctica and other far away places. He ...

A mother and young son are trapped on a cliff after their canoe tips in the Kootenay River. A hiker is lost in the Whistler backcountry. A jetskier goes missing. The action in this fast-paced series is real: filmed live by BC search and rescue teams during actual missions. Here's your chance to go along for the ride, from callout to climactic conclusion.

http://www.knowledge.ca/program/callout ... and-rescue

Lightest I've seen besides said rope are the Sterling Nano 9.2 and Beal Joker 9.1 which are both 53 g/m while the Mammut Serenity 8.9 is 52 g/m. As far as cams I suppose Metolius TCUs and Powercams although you sacrifice range versus BD Camalots.

Senator Lisa Murkowski is pushing legislation to require the US Board of Geographic Names to name Peak 13,895 (the south summit of Mt. Hunter) "Stevens Peak," after the late Senator Ted Stevens. 13,895 is the highest unnamed peak in Alaska with over 1000 feet of prominence. My question is whether it's the highest unnamed peak in the US as a whole with that much prominence--I'm thinking it is. Does anyone know for sure?

The peak ...

A German adventure guide is feeling a bit sheepish after he had to be rescued from B.C.'s backcountry last week -- and not for the first time.

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loca ... lumbiaHome

Thanks for sharing that with us Matt. 8)
Here is a link for a Linda Glacier ski descent route on Aoraki/Mt Cook
http://tetonat.com/2010/09/aorakimount- ... ent-video/ (website of Steve Romeo)

Link Below. Been a deadly year in the Cascades.

http://www.nwcn.com/news/oregon/Oregon- ... 48069.html

FTZE (Skylar) is leading a charity climb of Mount Rainier for the The Moyer Foundation's Camp Erin program (a revitalizing program for kids who have lost loved ones). Please contact him on nwhikers.net to join his climb and help the community. There will be some media attention so be on your best behavior. The climbing dates are weather pending so it is still TBD.

This report may be coming a little late, as I only learned of this sad news today, but on August 31, SummitPoster Edward Woo (http://www.summitpost.org/user_page.php?user_id=54013) died while on a climb of Gerlach, the highest point in Slovakia. Here is the report (in Slovak) from the rescue team: http://www.hzs.sk/?lang=sk&site=archivsprav&id=1528, with a rough translation I grabbed from Edward's facebook:

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31.8.3010. Záchranná akcia na Gerlachovskom štíte
Rescue action on the Gerlach peak

Monday evening about 9 PM ...