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American rock climber
Layton Kor
Born (1938-06-11 ) June 11, 1938Died April 21, 2013(2013-04-21) (aged 74) Occupation Rock Climber Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Layton Kor (June 11, 1938 – April 21, 2013) was an American
rock climber active in the 1960s, whose first ascents and drive for climbing are well known in the climbing world.
[1] His routes included many climbs in
Eldorado Canyon , near
Boulder, Colorado , The Diamond on
Longs Peak , towers in the desert southwest, and
Yosemite National Park , among other locations. Notable among his first ascents is the
Kor-Ingalls Route on
Castleton Tower and The
Finger of Fate Route up the
Fisher Towers '
Titan ; both routes are recognized in the historic climbing text
Fifty Classic Climbs of North America .
[2]
Kor also authored the book Beyond the Vertical .
[3]
Kor received the 2009
American Alpine Club 's Robert & Miriam Underhill Award for outstanding climbing achievement.
[4]
Kor lived in
Kingman, Arizona and continued climbing until his early 70s. He had kidney failure and prostate cancer at the time of his death.
[5]
Notable first ascents
Colorado
1959 Diagonal , Lower East Face,
Longs Peak , CO. (V 5.9 A3) with Ray Northcutt.
[6]
1959 T2 , Redgarden Wall,
Eldorado Canyon , CO. (current rating 5.11a) 1st ascent with Gerry Roach
[7]
1960 Yellow Spur , Redgarden Wall,
Eldorado Canyon , CO. (5.9 (A1)) FA with David Dornan, Feb 21, 1960
[8]
1960 Long Dong Wall ,
Kissing Couple . FA with Harvey Carter and John Auld, May 4, 1960. (5.11a)
[9]
1962 Psycho , Redgarden Wall, Eldorado Canyon, CO. (III 5.9 A4) 1st ascent with Huntley Ingalls
[10]
1962 The Naked Edge , Redgarden Wall, Eldorado Canyon, CO. (III 5.9 A3) with Bob Culp.
[11] Entire route with Rick Horn, 1964 (5.9 A4).
[12]
1962 Yellow Wall , The Diamond,
Longs Peak , CO. (V 5.8 A4) 2nd route on the wall, with Charles Roskosz.
[13]
1963 Canary Pass , Redgarden Wall, Eldorado Canyon, CO. (III 5.7 A4-) 1st ascent with
Pat Ament
[14]
1965 Green Slab ,
Black Canyon of the Gunnison , CO. (VI 5.8 A4) with Brian Martz.
[15]
Southwest deserts
1961
Kor-Ingalls Route ,
Castleton Tower ,
Utah ; FA of tower with Huntley Ingalls
[16]
1962
Finger of Fate ,
The Titan ,
Fisher Towers ,
Utah . FA of formation (V 5.8 A3) with Huntley Ingalls and George Hurley.
[17]
1962 Standing Rock (Monument Basin), near Moab, UT. FA of formation with Huntley Ingalls and Steve Komito.
[18]
1963 Kor-Dalke-Schafer IV 5.10 A1,
Monster Tower ,
Canyonlands National Park , Utah; FA of Monster tower with Larry Dalke and Cub Schafer, 26 December 1963
[19]
1964 North Face III 5.9 A3(?), Argon Tower,
Arches National Park , Utah; FA with Bob Bradley and Charlie Kemp, 17 January 1964
[20]
California
1963 West Buttress ,
El Capitan ,
Yosemite Valley ,
California . (VI 5.10 A3+) FA with
Steve Roper .
[21]
1964 South Face ,
Washington Column , Yosemite Valley, CA. (V 5.10a A2) FA with Chris Fredericks, June 1964 .
[22]
1965 Gold Wall , Ribbon Falls Area, Yosemite Valley, CA. (V 5.10 A3) FA with Tom Fender, May 1965.
[23]
Outlying areas
Publications
Kor, Layton; Bob Godfrey (1983). Beyond the Vertical . Boulder, CO, USA: Alpine House. pp. 21–22.
ISBN
0-9611748-0-3 .
Kor, Layton (1964). "El Capitan's West Buttress". American Alpine Journal . 22 (53). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 79.
ASIN
B000FLCQEM .
Bibliography
Jones, Chris (1976).
Climbing in North America . Berkeley, CA, USA: Published for the American Alpine Club by the University of California Press.
ISBN
0-520-02976-3 .
Levin, Steve (2009). Eldorado Canyon, A Climbing Guide . Boulder CO, USA: Sharp End Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-892540-65-2 .
Reid, Don; George Meyers (1993). Yosemite Climbs: Big Walls . Evergreen CO, USA: Chockstone Press.
ISBN
0-934641-54-4 .
References
^ Achey, Jeff; Chelton, Dudley; Godfrey, Bob (2002). Climb! . The Mountaineers Books.
ISBN
0-89886-876-9 .
^
Roper, Steve ;
Steck, Allen (1979).
Fifty Classic Climbs of North America . San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
ISBN
0-87156-292-8 .
^ Kor, Layton (1983) Beyond the Vertical , Boulder, Colorado:Alpine House.
ISBN
0-9611748-0-3
^
"Layton Kor honored by AAC: If you've climbed, you've likely done a Layton Kor route. There's the Kor/Ingalls on Castleton Tower, the Finger of Fate on the Titan, and innumerable routes throughout Colorado, Yosemite and the West" .
Rock and Ice . 2009. Retrieved July 23, 2022 .
^ MacDonald, Dougald (April 22, 2013).
"Layton Kor is Dead" .
Climbing . Retrieved July 23, 2022 .
^ Jones (1976), pp. 224-225.
^ Levin (2009), pp. 160.
^ Kor, Layton; Bob Godfrey (1983). Beyond the Vertical . Boulder, CO, USA: Alpine House. pp. 21–22.
ISBN
0-9611748-0-3 .
^ Cameron Burns, Selected Climbs in the Desert Southwest: Colorado and Utah , 1999, Mountaineers Books,
ISBN
9780898866575 , page 34.
^ Levin (2009), pp. 166.
^ Jones (1976), pp. 294.
^ Levin (2009), pp. 187.
^ Jones (1976), pp. 295.
^ Levin (2009), pp. 169.
^ Jones (1976), pp. 300.
^ Jones (1976), pp. 292.
^ Jones (1976), pp. 292.
^ Kor, Layton; Bob Godfrey (1983). Beyond the Vertical . Boulder, CO, USA: Alpine House. pp. 87–98.
ISBN
0-9611748-0-3 .
^ Bjornstad, Eric (1996). Desert Rock - Rock Climbs in the National Parks . Evergreen, CO: Chockstone Press. p. 201.
ISBN
0-934641-92-7 .
^ Bjornstad, Eric (1996). Desert Rock - Rock Climbs in the National Parks . Evergreen, CO: Chockstone Press. p. 142.
ISBN
0-934641-92-7 .
^ Kor, Layton (1964). "El Capitan's West Buttress". American Alpine Journal . 22 (53). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 79.
ASIN
B000FLCQEM .
^ Reid (1993), pp. 204.
^ Reid (1993), pp. 201.
^ Ament, Pat (1992). Royal Robbins - Spirit of the Age . Boulder CO, USA: Two Lights. pp. 125–127.
ISBN
1-881663-02-7 .
^ Colby Coombs, Alaska: A Climbing Guide , 2002, The Mountaineers Books,
ISBN
9781594851438 , p. 189.