Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition into the hitherto practically unexplored Clemenceau ice field region of the Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies will be made this summer by A. J. Ostheimer '29, who last year made the first ascent of Mt. Lyell, another peak in the same range, on which he collected much valuable data and many geological specimens of value. This expedition will have as its objective the ascent of Mt. Tsar, an unclimbed peak with an altitude between 11,000 and 12,000 feet, and the topographical and geological exploration of the Chaba and Whirlpool peaks which are in the same...
Even the Assumption, the bodily ascent of Mary to heaven immediately after her death, which is based upon Apocryphal writings, is observed as a feast by the faithful of the Roman Church, is generally accepted as "of faith...
...camp at the base (pictures by Pathe) was soon abandoned by Fish and his men. We had only ten days to make the trip. And nine of those were occupied in mailing Christmas presents to the little Fishes, for do not think that our ascent was not permeated with the feeling of good fellowship and eternal brotherhood...
...expedition was many times delayed and hampered by violent snow storms, accompanied by dangerous winds. Snow fell almost continually during the ascent. Had it not been for the precaution of planting stakes along the trail the members of the expedition might well have experienced the death they faced on many occasions in the confusing maze of ice fields...
Speaking will begin at 8 o'clock, when A. J. Ostheimer '29 will talk on his experiences in the Canadian Rockies last summer, particularly of his ascent of Mount Forbes and Lyell. He was the first man ever to reach the summit of Mount Lyell...