Ice Climbing News June 2007

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SATURDAY, 30 JUNE 2007
	A Mother Climbs for a Good Cause
	A 35-year-old mother of three wholeheartedly vowed to shin up the heights of Mont Blanc in support of the new cancer unit for teenagers in Belfast Hospital. Probably by now, Shauna Newman is already on her way soaring up the challenging altitude of the highest mountain in Western Europe, since it was reported that she planned to ascend to the mountain over the weekend. And though her husban Read Full Story
	Of Ice Climbing and Film-making
	Can a person so in love with film-making survive the dangers and challenges of the mountains? David Rasmussen is a cinematographer, and yet, he was given several opportunities to do work on top of the mountains. He was recently hired by a British medical expedition and joined the Everest’s 29,035-foot high summit. Rasmussen willingly shared his experiences mixing work and adventures on the Read Full Story
	An Ice-Climbing Sculpture in Between The Walls
	A large ice-climbing sculpture is set to mount at W. Colorado Avenue a few months from now. The image is said to be an ice climber ascending a wall of ice, approximately 36 feet tall. The organizers behind the project would also like to put some public benches in the grassy area below it. This ice-climbing sculpture is the idea of Rolfe Schwenniger and his partners from J.Roskelley Mountaine Read Full Story
	Matt Vulk: There’s Always a First Time
	Matt Vulk, a 1982 Vintage High School graduate, enjoys the journey as much as the arrival. Sounds simple, but this may have been one of the things on the man’s mind as he conquered the peak of Mount Everest on his first try, despite not having scaled a peak outside California, the 29,028-foot height also a huge change from his previous highest summit, 14,179-foot Mount Shasta. “Matt has Read Full Story
THURSDAY, 28 JUNE 2007
	A Mission Guided by The Moonlight
	It was an exhilarating yet fulfilling journey to the top of the Arwa Tower for Swiss nationals Stephan Siegrist, Thomas Senf, and Denis Burdet when they ascended the North East face of the said mountain route in Himalaya, India last June 7, 2007. The three Swissmen called their route the "Lightning Strike" since after all the struggles and hardships they’ve been through in going up the pea Read Full Story