Mt. Tigaraha. Ian McRae
Kigluaik Mountains Newly Reported:
By Ian McRae
Grand Singatook, North Face. Otherwise known as “3870” to locals, this great hump rises out of Woolley Lagoon, receiving the brunt of Bering Sea weather. From the Teller Road one imagines that Singatook might have a worthy north face around the backside….
Mt. Osborn, East Ridge. This is the right-hand skyline (seen from the south) of the undisputed monarch of the Kigs. I soloed the northeast ridge in alpine conditions in April 2005, climbing out of the glaciated northeast cirque of Osborn via an obvious snow couloir, then….
Tigaraha, East Arête and Chimney of Tiresias. As reported in 2004 AAJ, this peak is mismarked on many U.S.G.S. maps. Tigaraha, according to local consensus, is the dark thorn you see from Nome that doesn’t hold snow in winter and is located between the Sinuk and Windy river drainages. In June 2004 Lahka Peacock and I added a new route…. (read more)
