First Winter Ukulele Ascent of Mount Whitney’s East Face
On January 18th, 2009 Charles Ince and Albert Yu-Min Lin woke at 3:30 am to embark upon what may have been the first winter “ukulele” ascent of Mount Whitney’s East Face. The Video below is the story of that climb…
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Albert buddy, way to put together a kick ass video! Thing rocks!
So what is next for WC2009??!!
That was one SWEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTT Video! Nice work. Chilly!
SEH would be proud
Great climb and great video. You guys er, rock…
are you claiming to be the first to climb the east face in winter? me and a friend did that in 1995 while training for denali, we did the eastbutress/ peewee route in january. matt
not “first winter ascent”, “first winter ukulele ascent”
Hah, that looks awesome. Great job guys, I’m very jealous.
Thaht is a fu-g awesome video! Chingis grave must be found in the winter too!
Very nice climb and video guys !! I smiled for 2 minutes, puckered for 10 seconds and smiled for another 2 mins. Sure beats the 10 hour day you put in !! I want more ukulele trips. Are you on youtube? Thnx much !!
kick ass!!!
Props fellas! That was a great vid and a very proud ascent. Having been up there the week before you, I know how cold it was up there! (ass cold to be exact…) So well done, and AWESOME vid!
so cool
Very cool guys. I love the ukulele. Well done!
Beauty! That was sweet. Good tone on the uke!
ps. I BELIEVE that was the first ukulele winter ascent of the East Face, there’s not a doubt in mind.
In 1963 Sir Edmund Hillary and Warren Harding climbed the East Face with a mandolin. Hillary played the popular country tune “sittin on top of the world,” but his fingers became so cold that he actually lit the mandolin on fire to warm up his hands. he later wrote a song about the experience called “fire on the mountain” which was covered by the Greatful Dead.
Hilarious! But that must have been one cold climb (I did East Face in September and it was chilly then).
Oh man. I’m always stoked to see links from this site in Supertopo or RC.com. Its great to see guys my age (and from san diego) taking a beating in high and hard places too!
These guys truly rule……OI!
That was the best Whitney video I have ever seen, Nat Geo aint got nothin’ on you.
matt,
maybe you could strap your DH mountainbike to your back and we could replay amateur hour…
pete
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