Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Computations on the action of glaciers from data collected this summer are now being made in the Geology Department. The figures upon which they are working are the result of three months work by a combined Harvard-Dartmouth expedition which had as its two-fold purpose the ascent of Mt. Crillon's 12,728 foot peak in the Fairweather range of Alaska and the collecting of accurate information in the little-known field of glacier movements. The party, composed of 11 men under the leadership of Bradford Washburn '33, was divided into two groups; the climbing party of Adams Carter...
...Professor Guenther Oskar Dyhrenfurth of Zurich last week cabled Berlin that his party had made a successful ascent of 25,500-ft. Queen Mary Peak in the Himalayas. The message said that Professor Dyhrenfurth's wife Hettie accompanied the others to the top, surpassing the women's mountain climbing record (23,300 ft. up Pinnacle Peak in the Eastern Karakorum Range) established 18 years ago by the late Mrs. Fannie Bullock Workman of Worcester, Mass...
...rough padded jacket and conical cap of a Tibetan coolie, he slipped out of Darjeeling with three porters and one pack pony. When the authorities learned of his disappearance three days later, Wilson was already approaching the Tibetan border. Only the north face of Everest holds any hope of ascent, and the north face lies in Tibet...
...hundred colored slides and four thousand feet of film make up this pictorial account of the ascent of Mount Crillon in Alaska. The White Mountain Ski-runners' Club has sponsored Washburn's movie which the Boston Transcript termed the most wonderful ski motion picture ever seen. Harvard men may attend by paying $.75, instead of the general admission...
...next year, his seaplane landed on the lake inside the crater. Sometimes he has traveled alone, visiting missions, mushing 1,600 mi. with only frozen beans for food. He was the first man to reach the top of Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island, the first to make a winter ascent of towering Katmai. "Gosh," he once chuckled to a newshawk, "all the rest of these exploring babies are glad enough if they make one 'first,' and here I am with three...