Begguya (Mount Hunter), North Buttress.
White Punks On Dope, Stump & Aubrey pushing up the Moonflower, Bibler & Klewin taking it to the summit, Twight and Backes on Deprivation (to say nothing of the searing writing that followed), Colin Haley’s solo to the summit, and more recently the late Balin Miller’s “casual” solo romp up The French connection… The storied history of alpinists vision questing up this iconic north face’s steep flanks was the dream (nightmare?) fuel to my climbing ambitions when I was younger. I never got closer to the North Buttress than Kahiltna International Airport, where it looms so close – but to me, it may as well have been on the moon. While waiting for a pickup from TAT one day in 2017, the weather cleared, the sun started dropping behind Crosson & Sultana, and for a few minutes Begguya’s upper slopes lit up like a fireball. I have one blurry photo of it, taken from a broken iPhone camera; this painting doesn’t do it justice either.
Watercolor & pencil on Arches 140# hot pressed watercolor paper.
10”w x 14”h, including a slight 1/4” white paper border on all sides.
Begguya (Mount Hunter), North Buttress.
White Punks On Dope, Stump & Aubrey pushing up the Moonflower, Bibler & Klewin taking it to the summit, Twight and Backes on Deprivation (to say nothing of the searing writing that followed), Colin Haley’s solo to the summit, and more recently the late Balin Miller’s “casual” solo romp up The French connection… The storied history of alpinists vision questing up this iconic north face’s steep flanks was the dream (nightmare?) fuel to my climbing ambitions when I was younger. I never got closer to the North Buttress than Kahiltna International Airport, where it looms so close – but to me, it may as well have been on the moon. While waiting for a pickup from TAT one day in 2017, the weather cleared, the sun started dropping behind Crosson & Sultana, and for a few minutes Begguya’s upper slopes lit up like a fireball. I have one blurry photo of it, taken from a broken iPhone camera; this painting doesn’t do it justice either.
Watercolor & pencil on Arches 140# hot pressed watercolor paper.
10”w x 14”h, including a slight 1/4” white paper border on all sides.
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