Word: yerupaja
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...June 1952, Rinehart published his book, "The Butcher," an account of the first ascent of Peru's Mt. Yerupaja by a group of Stanford and Harvard students. The book, called "one of the great real-life dramas of mountain-climbing literature," was favorably reviewed everywhere...
...BUTCHER: THE ASCENT OF YERUPAJA (213 pp.)-John Sack-Rinehart
...First climb Kanchenjunga," runs a well-known mountaineering challenge, "then Yerupaja." Since no one has ever scaled Himalayan Kanchenjunga (though eight men have died trying), anybody in his right mind might conclude that Peruvian Yerupaja ("The Butcher") is strictly for the birds...
Into the Clouds. On July 4, Yerupaja looked down from its eminence of 21,769 ft. upon the 13,400-ft. base camp of six young climbers who had never tackled anything so big in their lives. Jim Maxwell, George Bell, Austen Riggs and Graham Matthews had met at Harvard. The two others, Dave Harrah and Chuck Crush, were Stanford...
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