Ama Dablam 1979-Tom Frost, DR & Jeff Lowe

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rodney korich

Mountain climber

evergreen,co

Jul 11, 2011 - 03:43pm PT

my alabi is that i was over on the Arun river scouting for the second film

reddirt

climber

PNW

Jul 31, 2011 - 01:12pm PT

a bump for Jello

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 28, 2013 - 08:58pm PT

Tell us more rodney.

Scole

Trad climber

Joshua Tree

Dec 29, 2013 - 05:11pm PT

Ama Dablam (Mother's Charm Box) is one of the most beautiful mountains in the world, and one of the best I have climbed. It would have been nice without all the ratty fixed lines and the electron ladder fixed on the 5.8 pitch made it impossible to free, but what an amazing place!

I was impressed with the sacrifice that all of the teams on the mountain made when one of our team members was seriously injured by rockfall. Everyone stopped what they were doing and helped with the carry out. Several teams sacrificed their own summit chances to help an injured foreigner.

Michael Hjorth

Trad climber

Copenhagen, Denmark

Dec 29, 2013 - 05:49pm PT

Nice to see this string rolling again! I could add a few shots of semi naked friends sunbathing at altitude on our autumn 88 trip - just to back up Guido's story...!

Until then: Happy New Year!

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 31, 2013 - 03:09pm PT

Right back at ya, Michael!

Post and Proost!

Michael Hjorth

Trad climber

Copenhagen, Denmark

Nov 16, 2015 - 02:04pm PT

Hm, seems that I totally forgot my promise to post more photos from our 1988 (post monsoon) Danish Ama Dablam Expedition. The half naked people though are rather boring - and the following only slighty less. Anyway...:

Me hiking towards ABC:

ABC:

Bivouac on the Dablam:

Our doctor Henrik Jessen Hansen on summit. Makalu behind:

The team:

Henrik being carried out due to frostbite. Taweche behind:

A small Swiss group with young photographer Robert Bösch (of Mammut fame, right) swapped their N-Ridge route with our S-Ridge, which they dispatched quickly after our ascent:

Michael

KristofferSzilas

Mountain climber

Denmark

Nov 16, 2015 - 02:57pm PT

Too bad that some people apparently don't respect the mountains any more. Ama Dablam is getting uglier by the year because of tourists who wants to summit at any cost...
This is what that mountain looked like when I did an alpine-style ascent of its SW-ridge in 2009:

The crux of this climb has literally become not to trip over fixed lines!