Eureka Climbing

Per Sandy East: Billy Roos told me about this area in the early 1980s (Eureka). He was a course leader for Outward Bound and spent time in this zone. Billy was a amazing alpinist, mountaineer, high altitude chaperone, builder, and gear tweakier, but most of all Billy was a great friend and mentor to so many of us up and coming guides with the International Alpine School. Charlie Fowler and I skied into this zone (the road was not plowed in those days). We climbed what is Stairway to Heaven, and that is what we named it and it stuck. This was in the early 1980s - there were not many climbers around during that time. Billy and I came back later that year and climbed WHH (now renamed by SE to Billy Roos). It's a story from the Miners Union bar how it got named that. Charlie, Billy, and I had no idea that these climbs would become so popular due to the approach - I think 6 or 7 miles skiing in. Times change, I know the name. WHH should also change. Billy was a good friend to all and has a list of amazing first ascents in Colorado and abroad.

Please help me in honoring Billy who died of Cancer 8years ago.