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The UNCLIMBED Northwest Face of Devil's Thumb Petersburg, Southeast Alaska YouTube

Celebrated climbers Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell summited Devil's Thumb in late August. But they couldn't pull it off without the counsel of a local climber who's had a decades-long love affair with the mountain. KFSK's Shelby Herbert has the story on Dieter Klose, who is passing the torch to the next generation of legendary climbers.

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Devils Thumb is a magnificent tower in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. In contrast to the most of the Indian Peaks, Devils Thumb can only be reached by 5th class climbing (at least two pitches). Devils Thumb is more of a sub-peak than an individual mountain in itself, but it bears little resemblance to its neighbors in appearance and difficulty.

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Devils Thumb a mountain near Delta Junction Alaska. Devils Thumb in Detail. About. Located between Trims Creek and Castner Glacier, 12.9 km (8 mi) southeast of Black Rapids, Alaska Range.

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Devils Thumb, or Taalkhunaxhkʼu Shaa in Tlingit, is a mountain in the Stikine Icecap region of the Alaska-British Columbia border, near Petersburg.It is named for its projected thumb-like appearance. Its name in the Tlingit language means "the mountain that never flooded" and is said to have been a refuge for people during Aangalakhu ("the Great Flood").

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Location. Devils Thumb is part of a group of striking, difficult rock peaks on the western edge of the Stikine Icecap. The Stikine Icecap occupies the crest of the Boundary Ranges, a subrange of the Coast Mountains spanning the Canada-United States border, north of the mouth of the Stikine River.Other peaks in the area include the Witches Tits and Cat's Ears Spires (part of the western ridge.

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Devil's Thumb Alaska & British Columbia The Northeast Rib might be a lot better than some past AAJ and magazine articles have suggested. Dave and Bob gave me the idea to avoid the lower north side and approach from the glacier under the East Ridge of the Thumb, do the whole thing in late day sun with rock shoes, and rappel back down rib to the boots and glacier gear stashed at the base.

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Devil's Thumb, a 9000ft+ peak near Petersburg Alaska, has an unclimbed Northwest Face which has been attempted by a number of climbers and written about in a.

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Devils Thumb in Detail. Devils Thumb. in Detail. Boundary Peak 71 on Alaska-Canada boundary, 6 mi. SW of Mount Burkett and 144 mi. E of Sitka, Coast Mts. Named by Commander R. W. Meade, U.S. Navy (USN), for a 1,662 foot thumblike projection on the mountain; published in 1869 by U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.

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Kyle Knight reached the summit after a lifetime of watching the mountain, dreaming of the climb. Devils Thumb rises to 9,000 feet above sea level, part of the Boundary Mountains of the Stikine.

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The first ascent of the Thumb was made via the East Ridge. The climb was an epic adventure, involving two of the most accomplished American alpinists of the era, Fred Beckey & Fritz Wiessner. Weissner was the first climber to explore the Stikine region, on an expedition with Bestor Robinson in 1937. The party attempted Kate's Needle, the.

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Despite boasting only a miserly 9,000 feet of altitude, the relatively low 3000-foot base elevation provides sweeping walls of ice and granite diorite. The Thumb's dramatic appearance has lured climbers for more than six decades. First climbed by the prolific Fred Becky in 1946, the Thumb saw only four ascents during the ensuing three decades.

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Devils Thumb, or Taalkhunaxhkʼu Shaa in Tlingit, is a mountain in the Stikine Icecap region of the Alaska-British Columbia border, near Petersburg. It is named for its projected thumb-like appearance. Its name in the Tlingit language means "the mountain that never flooded" and is said to have been a refuge for people during Aangalakhu . It is one of the peaks that marks the border between.

Devil's Thumb, Alaska John Krakauer wrote about this mount… Flickr

There's a rock called Devil's Thumb that stands about 9,000 feet high over the Gulf of Alaska. It's across from a tiny town near the Canadian border, and it's well known in rock climbing circles. But only about 50 people have made it to the summit of Devil's Thumb. From Petersburg, Alaska, KFSK's Shelby Herbert brings us this.

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Gripped June 7, 2020. Since 1977, 13 expeditions have travelled into the shadow of the Devil's Thumb to attempt the coveted first ascent of the steep Northwest Face. Guy Edwards and John Millar, both experienced climbers from Vancouver, disappeared on the 2,000-metre face in mid-April 2003, during a week of unsettled weather and frequent.

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Known by rock climbers, Devil's Thumb stands about 9,000 feet high over the Gulf of Alaska. One man keeps trying to reach its summit. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on Sept. 9, 2023.)

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During the middle of summer, America Cole Taylor sailed his boat from Washington state to Alaska and then headed up the Baird Glacier to Devil's Thumb in the Coast Mountains. He arrived and made the second ascent of the upper half, as Alpinist reported here, nearly four decades after the first ascent of the VI 5.9 by Dave Stuzman and Bob Plumb.