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...Underhill Ph.D. '16 will speak on the ascent of the three Courmeyeur ridges of Mont Blanc at a dinner of the Harvard Mountaineering Club at the Harvard Union tomorrow night at 6.30 o'clock. Dr. Underhill is the first American to have climbed these three ascents, notorious for their length and difficulty, and which only one other man has ever surmounted. Other members of the Club will show slides and motion pictures at the dinner, tickets for which may be obtained from the secretary at 57 Westmorly Hall...
...seems nevertheless to have left a suggestion to his posthumous flock in Tennessee: "The whole progress of nature is so gradual, that the entire chasm from a plant to a man, is filled up with divers kinds of creatures, rising one above another, by so gentle an ascent, that the transitions from one species to another are almost insensible. . . . The ape is this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among...
...Odell, a member of former expeditions to Mt. Everest and at present Lecturer in Harvard University, will accompany the showing of the ascent of Grepon at the Union Sunday night, by an explanation of the technique and skill involved in rock climbing as the picture progresses. Grepon is considered the most difficult ascent in Chamonix and these pictures were taken especially for instruction in the art of mountain climbing...
Moving pictures of a rock climb on the Aiguille du Grepon and of a ski ascent of Monte Rosa will be shown in the Living Room of the Harvard Union on Sunday at 7.30 o'clock, under the joint auspices of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Harvard Union. The pictures of the climbing of Grepon, which is a part of the Mont Blanc Massif at Chamonix, show the mountaineering technique of professional guides in their ascent of what is considered by tourists as one of the most difficult peaks in Chamonix...
...called, rises in close proximity to the one ascended and the pictures were taken from the first tooth looking toward the second. The peak of Grepon is composed of rock, and though it is relatively small it offers plenty of opportunity for skillful climbing. The second reel of the ascent shows much of the technical difficulties of mountaineering and this one will be run again in slow motion at the end of the showing...