Dhaulagiri

The indefatigable Kitty Calhoun Grissom relishes formidable, icy climbs

One of the greatest mountaineering feats since the conquest of Everest was the assault last spring on Dhaulagiri, at 26,975 feet the "unclimbable fiend" of the Himalayan range. Last week Norman Dyhrenfurth, the...

The ultimate goal of mountaineers everywhere is the "eight-thousander," a peak above 8,000 meters, or 26,247 feet. The Himalayas have no less than 14 of them. One of the 14 is Dhaulagiri, shown here in a photograph...

The race against the monsoon...a daring strike fails in the face of Dhaulagiri's fury...terror in a crevasse...tension near the summit...a double triumph over the peak of storms