Should we be thinking about last ascents, instead of first ones?

By Heather Hansman
Mountaineers confront disappearing glaciers

The most common route up Gannett Peak, the highest mountain in Wyoming, follows a gooseneck couloir up a skinny snowfield to a gaping crevasse. Darran Wells, a professor of Outdoor Education and Leadership at Central Wyoming College who studies glaciers in the Wind River Range, says that historically, it’s been fairly straightforward to cross, a scramble across a snow bridge.…

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• Whistler News

June 8, 2019

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