Word: devis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved to be a veritable training school for most of the country's best younger climbers, and Durand pointed with pride to the fact that of the eight men who formed an expedition to climb Nanda Devi, highest scaled peak in the world, six were members or former members of the club. The other were from the British Alpine Club...
Lectures and movies of Nanda Devi were shown after the dinner. Nanda Devi is the Indian peak ascended by the club last summer. In the approaching vacation the scalers plan to tackle the Canadian Rockies, in preparation for which practice in local quarries will continue through the Spring...
Among the eight summer expeditions during the past five years the organization's most ambitious attempt was the successful ascent of Mt. Nanda Devi in the Indian Himalayas last August. With this record behind them the club has earned the distinction of having climbed to the greatest height ever reached...
Opportunity to scale peaks of the famous Canadian Selkirk range this summer will be offered to new members who have made good during the spring practice in the vicinity. The group, which boasts a membership of 115, claimed that a member of the Nanda Devi party hd never climbed before his Freshman year, learned the arts of the rope on Rattlesnake Hill...
Approximately 60 former Puritans attended the Winthrop House Annual Alumni Dinner given last night. William F. Loomis '36 gave a lecture and showed movies of the work of the British-American Expedition which successfully climbed Mt. Nanda Devi, the highest peak ever ascended by man. Loomis was a member of the expedition...