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Since the Club's first year, members have taken part in annual climbing jaunts up mountain peaks, across glaciers, and down erevices throughout the world. HMC representatives made up half the party which in 1936 reached the top of Nanda Devl, the highest peak yet scaled...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club is the only active college organization of its kind, with 19 years of existence to its credit. It has lately been testing climbing equipment for the U. S. Quartermaster Corps in Tuckerman's Ravine. To its credit is the ascent of Nanda Devi in the Himalayas, the highest summit yet reached...
Many graduates are returning for the meeting, among them Henry Hall '19, treasurer of the American Alpine Club, and H. Adams Carter '36, a member of the party which climbed Nanda Devi in India in 1936, the highest ascent yet made...
...Nanda, with his second-team head and Shridaman's bench-warming body, retires to the woods for solitude and self-mortification. Shridaman, with Nanda's body, becomes that great rarity, "a husband who, so to speak, consisted of nothing but principal features." For a while he and Sita have a wonderful time...
Under the mishaps of Shridaman and Nanda lie, half disclosed, the whole range of human hope and hopelessness, the folly and significance of the effort to unite opposites, the impossibility of gratifying a desire except at the expense of someone else...