Tuan's Mountaineering Page
This page
is a compilation of mountaineering and climbing information and stories
about a few favorite areas
that I wrote, collected, and received.
Q&A
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Q. Why do mountaineers use ropes ?
A1. To allow the sensible ones to get back home.
A2. To prevent the sensible ones to get back home.
(Check out my
collection of quotes, and other
jokes !
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Background and Opinions
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find more about me, my past and future climbs, and what I have to say on
various topics.
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Photographs
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Alps, Yosemite big walls, waterfall ice climbing, an
expedition on Mount Mc Kinley.
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Writing -
Ecrits
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amis francophones, j'ai écrit quelques récits - a couple of
climbing stories.
Information repositories
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The Mont-Blanc Range
- climbing and mountaineering in the highest range of the Alps:
general information on Chamonix, discussion of routes, climbing stories in
French.
- Cold Mountain
- ice-climbing, glacial and winter
mountaineering: technique (the Ice FAQ),
images and stories, topos. Covers currently some
ice-climbing areas, mostly in North America, and expeditions on
Mt Mc Kinley, Alaska.
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Yosemite Rock
- photography and general information on the Park, rock climbing
information: free and short climbs, big walls. Lots of trip reports and beta.
This page dates back from 1994, when there were only a few thousand web pages. It
was for a few years "the" mountaineering site on the web.
Climbing magazine wrote then: "Want to know if the North Face of les Droites is
climbable in early August ? On Tuan's Mountaineering page, thanks to
surfer input, you'll gain feedback from someone who's recently been
there". However, as I maintained the page less and less often, the information became
dated. I have recently cleaned-up the page to remove the material which is no longer
of interest, but I have tried to preserve the format and spirit of the original site,
some of which might be considered like a slice of history.