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[1]: Siguniang Shan: First Ascents and Exploratory Alpinism in China's Eastern Himalaya

Black Kaweah as seen from Alta Peak. Note that you can make out Mount Whitney and Mount Muir on the horizon! Photo by Patrick, July 18 2010.

Welcome the Caltech Alpine Club's Wiki! Use the navigation bar on the left to find and contribute information about our Library, club Equipment, Trip Reports, Local Areas, Members, and more! You may also want to know about the Bouldering Cave . To get an idea of the content on this wiki, you might wish to see all the categories of pages. To keep up to date with the club or contact us, please see the Email List.

News and Upcoming Events

See Events 2012 and Category:Events for past events.

• Noted American alpinist Dylan Johnson will be giving a slideshow about his first ascent in China, and some other very impressive first ascents. Their route on the southwest ridge of Siguniang (6250 metres) involved 9200 feet/72 pitches of technical climbing, including free climbing up to 5.11. Dylan and his partner Chad Kellogg spent 10 days on the razor-edge ridge, including an unplanned open bivy at 20,000 feet. Wednesday, February 22nd, 8.15 PM in 153, Noyes
• Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is stopping once again at Caltech, this time in Beckman Auditorium. Tickets are on sale! Students are $5. Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 7:30pm

New Visitors

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to edit pages, but we request that you first make an account (disabled for now - email Patrick for an account). (Account Tools are in the upper right hand corner). Once you have an account, add yourself to the Member List and edit your user page to let us know what your favorite activities are!

If you're new to wikis, you may wish to start with wikipedia's How to edit a page We also have our very own help file system, including Help:Photos for help on uploading photos and linking to photos from other websites. If this is your first time here, here's what you might want to do:

1. Make an account (disabled)
2. Join the Email List if you haven't already.
3. Introduce yourself by adding to the members list, and/or creating your user page (example: User:Hamik).
4. Contribute to the Favorite Local Hikes page or one of the other Favorites Pages.
5. Add a Trip Report
6. Request a new book/ or see what we already have in our library.
7. Request equipment or see what equipment we already own.
8. Add your favorite climbing site to our collection of cool links.
9. Suggest an event or speaker to bring to campus

In general, please don't be shy about editing! We value substance over style, so don't worry if you're not a wiki-nerd. And don't be afraid that you will mess up a page, because the wiki software keeps all old versions of a page, so it's always possible to undo a change. We also welcome anyone, not just Caltech students, to participate. All we ask is that you behave nicely towards one another.