![]() ![]() However, the true Full Palisade Traverse (without the Full Monty extension), is an eight-mile stretch between Southfork Pass and Bishop Pass that summits six fourteeners and numerous thirteeners. Many hear “Palisade Traverse” and think merely of the 1-mile segment of peaks ringing Palisade Glacier, stretching between Thunderbolt Peak (14,003 feett) and Mt. “Maybe the weight of the whole thing, or being tired, or being a quitter at heart, or good judgment, or a combination of these made me not continue past Bishop Pass,” he said. Upon hiking out, he also found that one of his friends, Julia MacKenzie, had died in an unroped fall on one of the peaks shared by the Evolution Crest and Traverse, only a day prior (MacKenzie was attempting the Evolution Traverse). “It wasn’t a hallucination, but it was almost like a strong voice in my head,” he said.Īt the time he was carrying the ashes of a friend, Edward Lau, who had passed away. “I had a bad feeling or strong sense that if I kept going I would die,” Musiyenko said of the 2016 attempt, which he aborted at Bishop Pass, the end of the Evolution Crest. ![]() Musiyenko soloed the Full Evolution Crest north to south in 2016, in what he describes as his initial attempt to complete Goliath. (Note: Evolution Crest does not refer to Peter Croft’s 1999 traverse of the peaks around Evolution Basin, which is known as the Evolution Traverse but only shares a handful of terrain with the Evo Crest). The Full Evolution Crest itself has been sent under half a dozen times to date. The Full Monty, which tracks from Taboose to Bishop, is around the same length and is an extension of the legendary Full Palisade Traverse. The Full Evolution Crest (one half of Goliath ) was formerly the longest traverse in the Sierra Nevada, a stretch from Bishop Pass to Piute Pass completed by Scott McCook and Kyle Sox in 2008, recorded at sixteen miles. Sill, Musiyenko constructed a bivy site here to protect himself from buffeting winds. When Climbing later spoke with Musiyenko by phone, he added that he was unsure how much elevation Goliath gains in total, but that he was climbing at least 10,000 feet daily (over 80,000 feet in total). The route entails summits of over 60 peaks between 13,000 to 14,000+ feet in elevation and is 32 miles long. Musiyenko christened the monstrous traverse Goliath. “It seemed logical to link up two of the most jagged sub-ranges of the High Sierra because they are connected on the Sierra Crest and are only separated by a pass.” “What I’ve done is a solo, alpine style (no caches along the way) link-up of a huge section of the Sierra Crest, which includes a first ascent of the Full Monty Palisade traverse (VI 5.9) and the Full Evolution Crest traverse (VI 5.9),” the 34-year-old Musiyenko shared with Climbing via email. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!įrom August 2nd to August 9th, dauntless American climber Vitaliy Musiyenko completed a monstrous unsupported alpine traverse, which he believes to be the longest technical ridge traverse in the Western Hemisphere. ![]()
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