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...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...
...film is unusually complete in the views presented because of the fact that another tooth or "gendarme", as it is 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...
...peak upon which the incident described above took place has received the reputation of being a bad one because of the long drop of the perpendicular cliff. The mountains which will be shown in the moving pictures are two of the best for the experienced climber. The Aiguille du Grepon is a massive rock structure that was not scaled until thirty years after the Matterhorn was conquered...