Hi, I'm going to be in Frankfurt, Germany for work the week of June 11-15, and was hoping to bag some European ultra-prominence peaks between the 15th and 22nd...
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Adam Helman
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Feb 6, 2012 1:51 am
Hello folks, As many of you know I organized and participated in an outrageously successful climbing trip one month ago to Mexico. Please read and enjoy this...
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Adam Helman
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Feb 8, 2012 8:00 am
Just what IS an "exotic" ultra? I heard this descriptor on my recent Mexico trip and wonder how one would define the genre. It's a topic of paramount...
"exotic" probably isn't the right word to describe the concept. Others which come to mind as meeting the criteria you enumerate are: Poco Ngandonalu, Flores...
... I would specifically mention the Aleutian Islands here. ... Agreed. ... I disagree here. I would not call Mt Stimson "exotic", ultra or not. It's in a ...
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Adam Helman
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Feb 8, 2012 7:29 pm
... Of course not. That's too restrictive. Perhaps once a standard route is established, or even an actual footpath, THEN it's no longer in the same category. ...
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Adam Helman
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Feb 8, 2012 7:32 pm
... YEP. Going there in eleven months! ... Pico Cristobal Colon in Colombia. Not going THERE anytime soon. - Adam H. [Non-text portions of this message have...
... Actually, an exotic peak would be an adventure, because an "adventure", as I defined it in the scheme that Adam just mentioned, is already a non-classic, ...
My my reckoning there were "near exotics" in the Great Basin before John Hart wrote "Hiking the Great Basin" for the Sierra Club. Mount Dubois in the Whites...
... It is indeed a Bjorstadism. IIRC, it would also include summits in countries that weren't easy to visit. Once there you might discover some quite trivial...
... I think that technology also plays a part. Right now peaks in the Aleutians and the HP of Australia on Heard Island that even BP won't do are exotic...
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Adam Helman
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Feb 9, 2012 4:00 pm
So Petter B. first used the expression. As reply to Edward Earl's question, I'd like to hear other people's answers to this question: what is the most ...
"Ranges along the Virginia-West Virginia border, across the Maryland Panhandle and up into Pennsylvania? Navigating obscure parts of that whole region and...
My personal favourite is the high point of the Prinsesse Caroline-Mathilde Alper, Hahn Land, NE Greenland. It appears to have no official name but I suggest...
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Adam Helman
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Feb 11, 2012 4:23 am
This one makes the alternative descriptor "way-out" seem quite appropriate. Adam H. ... From: Jonathan de Ferranti To: prominence@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday,...
Intensive climbing and trekking activity, with increasing commercialization of accomodations in parts of the Himalaya such as the Everest and Annapurna regions...
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Adam Helman
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Feb 15, 2012 7:19 pm
I am concerned that the mountain will become closed to other climbing parties - just as happened when China brought the Olympic torch to Everest's summit. ...
... I would not be concerned about the mountain being closed when Harry is on it. It was closed in 2008 because the Chinese govt feared that if the expedition ...
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Adam Helman
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Feb 16, 2012 7:07 am
Good reply, Edward. Fame and fortune has its privileges - Prince Harry, were he of the mindset to, could easily climb Denali AND Yukon's Logan without ever...
Hi Adam I've recently been to Korea on business, and am likely to go again in the autumn, albeit a few weeks later than your planned trip. With the potential...
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Adam Helman
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Feb 16, 2012 8:14 pm
Hello Lee, I've become aware of this issue from independent sources. Regarldless, the Far East trip has now morphed into a Japan + Taiwan journey, not the...
... I'm pretty sure I can get to 300 without thinking too hard about it before going near anything which is exotic in the sense of little known or untrodden....
To: Prominence egroup, Bob, Charlie, Gerry, Dave, John M, Rick, Courtney, John K, Grant ... Congratulations, and thanks for letting me know Bob. Completion...
Some follow ups on yesterdays post. John Roper reports an early completion of the ... to put a foot on all 70 of these in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, well ...
Hi Jonathan, I have (prematurely) posted ..../mountains/1500mtn/Hallingskarvet/4437-4443.jpg (from .../1500mtn/hellevassfonni.html) Position is North...
Hi Petter, The computer generated drawing identifying the peaks is at http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/panoramas/NOR/HELLEVASSFONNI.gif Some readers may also...
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Adam Helman
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Mar 6, 2012 8:13 pm
Scott Surgent shared this post today at the county highpointers E-group. As a P2K summit it's appropriate material here - arguably even more so than with the...
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Adam Helman
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Apr 2, 2012 10:52 pm
Bob Packard, Andy Martin, his wife Sarah and I returned last Wednesday from a completely successful prominence trip to south Nevada. My posted trip report...
Hi, This mountain is listed with elevation 4750 meter and prominence of 4649 meter, thus one of the most prominent mountains in the world. On the web page:...
