heights of Annapurna's Western Wall and rumbled down the 800 m (2,600 ft) long couloir. The avalanche knocked Moro down the mountain where he landed just above...
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his advance. His Scottish Engager army began slowly to move down the long couloir between the mountains and the sea. The Campaign of Preston which followed...
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un chœur au centre, réservé aux clercs. On a accès à celui-ci par un long couloir formé par un mur latéral de ladite chapelle. (English: "namely a nave...
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via the Notch Couloir: This is a technical climb involving rock climbing and, at some times of year, ice climbing. The Notch Couloir is to the (climber's)...
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giant north face to the Great Couloir (later called the "Norton Couloir"), climbed along the borderline of the couloir, and then attempted to reach the...
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Saudan and Vail Resorts ended the long running dispute over the naming rights. Saudan received compensation, the couloir was officially named after him and...
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Granite Harbour (redirect from Couloir Cliffs)
Punchbowl, Finger Point, New Glacier, Discovery Bluff, Avalanche Bay, Couloir Cliffs, First View Point and Cape Roberts. Prominent nearby peaks include...
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Dufourspitze (section Marinelli couloir)
reputation of being unconquerable. Ferdinand Imseng was convinced that the long snow couloir in the middle of the face could be ascended. He succeeded in convincing...
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K2 (category CS1: long volume value)
"Shoulder" and then on to the summit. The last major obstacle is a narrow couloir known as the "Bottleneck", which places climbers dangerously close to a...
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rock and immediately afterwards reach the infamous Couloir du Goûter or Grand Couloir. The 100 m-long section is protected by a steel cable, intended to...
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entered the north wall flank in the direction of the steep couloir later named "Norton Couloir". They made good progress horizontally but they gained no...
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intermediately difficult eight-thousander when ascended from the standard Reiss Couloir route, its secondary summits and extremely steep South Face are regarded...
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Ellingwood Couloir on the south side of the peak. Ellingwood made the first ascent of South Teton the same day. What is known as the southwest couloir provides...
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(common with rock faces in alpine environments), avalanches (especially in couloirs), seracs and crevasses, violent storms hitting climbers on exposed mountain...
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mountains, with Heini Holzer [de] descending the Schück couloir in 1971 and the Minnigerode couloir in 1975. On June 24, 1983, Andreas Orgler [de] skied...
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accessible from the Girose Glacier) which leads to several couloirs (the Banane, Patou, Couloir du Lac) around the Lac de Puyvachier and the Refuge Evariste...
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way up the Hornbein Couloir to where it started to cross the Yellow Band to establish Camp 5W on a tiny ledge. The Hornbein Couloir is a few hundred yards...
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difficult climb. It is notable for its many large rock faces and its long ice couloirs, which are famous in mountaineering circles, and have seen a number...
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Bourg-Saint-Pierre. Day 3: Long climb up to the Valsorey Hut on the shoulder of Grand Combin. Day 4: Over the Plateau du Couloir and down the Glacier du...
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Mountains of Alaska. The route, which is next to Supa Dupa Couloir, was named Hypa Zypa Couloir. Roskelley was married on July 25, 2015, to Allison Spencer...
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glaciers, while the lower part consists of steep rock buttresses with couloirs between them. The steep southern third of the Kangshung Face also comprises...
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Mont Blanc (category CS1: long volume value)
begins in the direction of the Refuge de Tête Rousse, crossing the Grand Couloir or Goûter Corridor, considered dangerous because of frequent rockfalls...
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railroad, &c., &c." They imagined all difficulties were at an end; but a rock couloir, which they had hitherto not observed, lay between them and the final bit...
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trekkers and mountaineers who preferred a graffiti coated rock that had long been considered the base of the climb. The signboard, located at the iconic...
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these climbs increasingly difficult and dangerous. The Diamond Couloir, a steep ice couloir fed by the fusion of the upper Diamond Glacier, was first climbed...
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2010 Gasherbrum I (8068m/26,650 ft) Karakoram Range, Pakistan, Japanese Couloir (summit) 2011 Cho Oyu (summit) with Ueli Steck 2019 Annapurna (Summit)...
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French). "Charmant Som : Tour par le Couloir NW et la vire N". camptocamp.org. (in French). "Charmant Som : Traversée Couloir NW >> Face E de Chamechine >> Versant...
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spongocoel col- strain Latin colare, cōlum colander, coulee, coulis, coulisse, couloir, cullender, cullis, percolate, percolation, percolator, piña colada, portcullis...
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works, such as Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein and L'Homme assis dans le couloir (1980), deal with human sexuality. Towards the end of her life, Duras published...
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19. They then reached a point of decision: to traverse right to reach a couloir, later known as the "Bottleneck", beside unstable ice from the summit cornice...
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