He was known for playing Enya on his headphones while in the mountains. Oh, and when Harrington met him, he was paying $180 a month to live in a buddy’s stairwell. In 2015, Leclerc spent a lot of time in southern Argentine Patagonia.
He was a national-level swimmer in his younger years and completed difficult climbs in the U.S., Canada, Kyrgyzstan and Nepal, according to the gym website. By Wednesday, the site had raised more than $37,000 from 500 people in two days. Nearly 800 people had donated as of Wednesday, raising more than $38,500 in four days. Leclerc’s family established a GoFundMe page for relatives and his partner, Brette. An unidentified mentor quoted on the page praised Leclerc’s unparalleled energy and enthusiasm and his “amazing” skills but said what made him special was “his ability to ‘see’ possibilities where no else could even begin to imagine.” “He took an Instagram photo. Then he and Ryan started a descent,” Irvine said Wednesday.
Kadatz began scraping out the snow-ice that was clogging the opening, while Banfield wandered uphill to search for Schumacher’s skis, which had disengaged during the slide and disappeared. Left alone with her task, Kadatz chiseled out the opening to lower herself back in. While Kadatz’s mental experience markedly differs from the hallucinations commonly reported by alpinists, her physical experience aligns with the research. At Sentinel Pass, at about 8,500 feet of elevation, her effective oxygen was already down to fourteen percent.
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He described getting off-route on an approach in Banff in December 2014, which lead him to onsight solo several pitches of mixed climbing, including a thin standing pillar he referred to as a WI6 pencil. The pair were expected to return to Juneau no later than Wednesday but state troopers reported a significant snow storm inthe area that day. Attempted search efforts by Juneau Mountain Rescue personnel and the U.S. Coast Guard wereunderway immediately, but poor weather conditions delayed efforts.
He was a dreamer, a man who had a smile for every occasion and a passion for people as much as he did for climbing. I didn’t know Marc as well as many people on this planet but from my time shooting him and capturing part of his life’s story I was really struck by his character. I really enjoyed hanging out with Marc and our endless drives through the Canadian highways talking about everything under the sun.
Remembering Ryan Johnson
Snow instability and avalanche danger are primary concerns, Ebert said. Ebert said winter climbs, particularly on the Juneau Icefield, from which the Mendenhall Towers jut, have their own set of dangers. The agency said earlier this week that George “Ryan” Johnson of Juneau and Marc-Andre Leclerc of British Columbia are presumed dead. The men were reported overdue on March 7 from a climbing trip to Mendenhall Towers, a seven-peaked mountain not far from Alaska’s capital city.
I thought to myself that the essence of alpinism lies in true adventure. I was deeply content that I had not carried a watch with me to keep time, as the obsession with time and speed is in fact one of the greatest detractors from the alpine experience. I was happy that my entire experience had been onsight, on my first visit to the mountain, and that the route had been in completely virgin condition.
As I soloed up the chimney I carefully trundled snow mushrooms between my legs, taking care to cut away the mushrooms in small pieces that would not knock me off or throw me out of balance. Above this the climbing was easier although still sustained and exposed and always interesting and fun. First on the list was to re-visit Andromeda to see if I was indeed better prepared to tackle the mountain solo. I took a shuttle bus going from Banff to Jasper and the driver happened to be a skier and climber who invited me up into the passenger seat where we chatted about mountains and conditions before dropping me off at the Columbia Icefields. There I set up a cozy camp in the thin trees just off the road and nicely hidden from view, in almost the exact same place I had a year and a half previous. Since then, while building experience climbing with partners on Rockies alpine routes, I wondered to myself if I had built up the experience and technical skill to venture out again solo.
At the base of the offwidth I felt the intimidation, but once I began to climb it all evaporated and I enjoyed every inch of the climb. Already I have been asked how fast I was, but I honestly cannot tell you how many hours the Emperor Face took me to climb. I yelled an obscenity and realized that my situation was becoming too desperate now to stay on the summit any longer, so I climbed out of the bivy sack and began to organize my equipment for the descent.
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The pair never returned to the pile of gear they cached for the ski out across the ice field and trip down the West Mendenhall Glacier Trail back to Juneau, troopers said. In 2016, Leclerc completed the first solo ascent of the Infinite Patience route on Mt. Robson’s Emperor Face. After completing this climb, he wrote on his blog that he “was intimidated by (the Emperor’s) strong aura, but in the end, we became friends, and the King generously shared his wealth, leaving me a much richer person indeed.” Leclerc is the subject of The Alpinist, a gripping new documentary by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen, whose previous films include The Dawn Wall and Valley Uprising, two giants of the climbing genre.
The directors — known for creating the Reel Rock Film Tour, a traveling festival that showcases movies about adventures in the outdoors — wanted to talk to Leclerc about the possibility of filming him. So they got in touch with Harrington, who did have one, and arranged a visit to Squamish. As she prepared herself to descend, Kadatz surveyed the surrounding landscape. She’d hiked here in the summer, switchbacking up through the trees with her brother. And she’d parked in the lot multiple times to go climbing with friends. Kadatz glanced up at the mountain pass to the approximate spot where she’d been swept away.
JMR and the Alaska State Troopers recently suspended their efforts to recover the remains of Juneau climber George “Ryan” Johnson and British Columbia climber Marc-André Leclerc. Throughout the summer and fall, JMR tried to access the area where the remains are believed to be. Alex Honnold was preparing for the biggest climb of his life when he started to fall for her. She liked that he made her laugh, and their visions about the outdoors aligned. “And I don’t know if my friends were there with me but that’s what it felt like. Whether that be the spirit of the mountain or—I have no idea— but it definitely felt like there was someone or something.”
My first attempt to climb alone in the Rockies was during a -35 cold snap on the Columbia Icefields in November of 2014. Unable to climb down, and unable to construct an anchor in the compact rock to retreat, I was forced to continue climbing un-roped for 30 meters through what felt like a terrible nightmare. Luckily I eventually reached a thin flaring seam into which I hammered two brass nuts that held for long enough for me to bail back down the couloir before hitching a ride to Jasper. On Tuesday Juneau Mountain Rescue located an intact anchor rope at the top of an ice shoot and two climbing ropes in acrevasse that matched descriptions of gear carried by Leclerc and Johnson.
Megan Peters said summer is the soonest that authorities could launch a recovery effort in southeast Alaska, though even that depends on snow and ice conditions and the risk to crew members. It’s not clear whether Johnson and Leclerc fell into the crevasse or an avalanche carried them into it, she said. “We do know they ascended, took pictures at the top. … We know they hiked a ridge over to the ice chute near the fourth tower.” There was no film crew in tow on the day Marc died because he often didn’t tell the documentary team what he was doing.
I remember telling him after driving out of The Ghost, that I was glad I’d spent all this time in a car with him talking otherwise I would have thought he was actually crazy having watched him solo the stuff he does. I have so many fond memories of Marc and yet I only spent a few of weeks with him, but in those short few weeks I grew to respect a man ten years younger than me for the way he treated those around him and the way he engaged with the mountains. Crossing glaciers without a rope, rightly known to be a harzardous activity, is the one aspect of alpine soloing that I fear the most and enjoy the least. Luckily the snow conditions were iron hard and my crampons barely left scratches in the surface.
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