On Mount Shasta, a photographic record outlasts living memory

[rcjordan]

 - High Country News
https://www.hcn.org/articles/on-mount-shasta-a-photographic-record-outlasts-living-memory/

[ergophobe]

Sad. I first skied on Shasta in 1996. Last was there around 2003.

There's a climb I did in mid-1990s in the Alps on the North Face of Mont Blanc du Cheilon. When we did it in March, it was a mixed climb, meaning snow and ice and rock with some pretty hard/scary sections that involved scraping through a couple of inches of rock to get to something you could hook with the pick of an ice axe.

An old timer told us later that when he did it in the 1970s, he did it in the summer casually kicking his way up snow from bottom to top. The Swiss Alpine Club site says:

"The central north face was once heavily covered with ice and firn, but today it is rather more rocky, which is why alpinists who venture there do so in the winter"
https://www.sac-cas.ch/en/huts-and-tours/sac-route-portal/mont-blanc-de-cheilon-367/alpinism/

[BTW ... my eyes have been a giving me issues lately, so not on screens or reading as much lately. Time to see the ophthalmologist]