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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip, which will take the greater part of the summer, Ostheimer hopes to ascend four of the highest mountains in the Rockies; Mount Columbia, the North Twin, and Mounts Clemenceau and Robson, a feat which has never been accomplished before. Seven men will go on the expedition, two besides Ostheimer being Harvard undergraduates...
...been perplexing geologists for a number of years by its queer fluctuations. Water from the Columbia-ice fields runs to the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans. Ascending the Athabaska River the party will approach the region from the north; camp will be made and the peaks of Mount Columbia 12,295 feet high, and the North Twin 12,085 feet high, will be attempted. If the peaks are reached, it will represent the first ascents from the northern sides, which are rocky as compared to the snowy and ice covered southern slopes...
...weather conditions are favor able while the party is in camp it will try to ascend Mount Alberta, which was first scaled in 1925 by a party of Japanese. Hans Fuhrer who will be the guide on this trip was also on the Japanese expedition and it is rumored that a silver ice axe, a gift from the Emperor of Japan to the leader of the party, was left at the peak...
...Mount Clemens, Mich...
...Harvard Summer School of Field Geology will have its headquartars at the Mount Royal Hotel, Banff, during the coming summer. The camp will be 12 miles east of the city on Lake Minnewanka and the party will leave the hotel for work around the lake on July...