Mt. Whitney and the Needles

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Mt. Whitney and the Needles

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Looking down from the start of the Fresh Air Traverse

approx lines of the E side routes

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Ash Gambhir

Sep 13, 2017

“Mt. Whitney and the Needles”

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At the end of the FAT. Kats first alpine climb, first multi pitch, first 14r, first car to car, first time climbing with a pack, first big-time exposure, and one of her first days on the rock in general. A real trial by fire, and proudly sent clean, excepting the dirty words emitted.

View from the Fresh Air Traverse. Exposed, but easy going.

Tower Traverse!

Tom Slater topping out above the "washboard", leaving the snow behind but going into the cold shadows.<br>
Photo Doug Englekirk.

Harz following the Fresh Air Traverse

View from Iceberg Lake of the route, w/ line drawn of East Face.

Early morning alpenglow

The beginning of the fresh air traverse

Climber on the fresh air traverse.

East Face of Whitney

East face

lost on the Fresh Air Traverse. Super easy when you find the correct line

Miguel Carmona climbing the Fresh Air Traverse in winter of 1983.

nearing the summit

Ebersbacher Ledges on the approach to Lower Boy Scout Lake

5.7 off-width crack above the Grand Staircase.

Mt Russell in the distance

View from the talus field

View of the exposure after the Fresh Air Traverse

Looking down from the start of the Fresh Air Traverse

Mt. Whitney and the Needles

approx lines of the E side routes

reaching for fresh air

looking back at the Fresh Air Traverse

The "Tower Traverse."

Flex following the Tower Traverse

Just Doug and I on the summit. An exciting day, but damn cold.

Just before the Tower Traverse (pitch 1)

Joshua Reinig in black high on the Fresh Air Traverse. Drew small circle around him.

views from the last section

climbing with Zach Schneider

Richard Lewis, Tower Traverse, 1987.

Looking down from the start of the "Tower Traverse" pitch.

Simul-climbing the Washboard - 1987 (note swami-belt & guess who was carrying the pack).

Mt. Whitney, Day and Keeler Needles.

Above the Washboard. Climb over these blocks, then traverse down and right (west) to reach the start of the Fresh Air Traverse.

2 climbers on top of the 2nd tower on East Buttress of Mt Whitney

looking back down to Iceberg Lake

the Grand Staircase

Tower Traverse

Wayne Campbell starting the Tower Traverse, circa 1986

All that fresh air.....

Just before the washboard on Whitney's East Face

Scott and me on the summit after climbing the East Face

Mariann at the base of the east face

Top of the 3rd pitch coming out the top of the Washboard.

Fresh Air Traverse visible right ahead!

heading up to the big alcove

The Fresh Air Traverse

"Fresh Air Traverse." Superfluous protection was placed to prevent a pendulum.

The Washboard

approach choss

route start

the Washboard

On the approach - first week of November'16

looking back at the Tower Traverse | The holds were less positive, so this was the psychological crux for me, not the Fresh Air Traverse.

Tower Traverse

Following the Fresh Air Traverse

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