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Featuring pictures of the Grepon, Europe's most famous rock climb, and the third ascent ever to be made of Pinacle Gulley in Mt. Washington's Huntington Ravine, the Mountaineering Club will open its ranks tonight to all those who would like to scale mountains by means other than well-worn trails...
Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, president of the Mountaineering Club, lectures this morning at the Exeter Street Theatre on "The Traverse of the Grepon," for the benefit of the Home and School Visitors Association...
...addition to the films of Mont Blanc, Washburn will describe and show motion pictures of an ascent of the Grepon, the well-known Chamonix aguille to the north of Mont Blanc which remained unconquered until 1881. The history of the region, which Washburn looked in to during the summer, will also form a part of tomorrow's lecture. Tickets for the lecture...
Washburn climbed over a score of Alpine peaks, and in 1929 he led a party which filmed the ascent of the Grepon, one of Europe's most impressive mountains...
...Washburn led an expedition to the Alps to film the ascent of the Grepon, and another last summer to Alaska which did important exploration in the Fairweather Range and produced a film of the ascent...