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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

House, Slawinski Continue Rockies Charge

Fewer than two weeks after Alpinist Correspondent Raphael Slawinski made the first winter ascent of the Greenwood-Jones (IV/V M6, ca. 20 pitches, 1300m) on Alberta's Mt. Temple with Eamonn Walsh and Ian Welsted (read the March 14, 2008 NewsWire for more information), Steve House and Roger Strong repeated the line in a single 25.5-hour push on March 20. Two days later Slawinski was at it again, this time with Swiss guide Pierre Darbellay, establishing The Dogleg Couloir (V/VI M7 A1, ca. 1300m) on Mt. Chephren (3307m), also in Banff National Park...

Taken from: Alpinist Magazine.

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