Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Describing the successful ascent of Albert W. Nickerson '62 and Leif-Norman Patterson, a graduate student at M.I.T., Everett said that "the work was physically and mentally straining, but no one ever complained about the scenery." Located in the Yukon, Mount Logan, almost 20,000 feet high, is the second highest mountain in North America...
...Mountaineering Club will present a public lecture tonight on tales of mountain climbing in the Canadian Yukon. The lecture will be in the Map Room of the Faculty Club at 8 p.m., immediately after the winter dinner. The slide-talk will tell of the intrepid third ascent of the East Ridge of Mt. Logan, the second highest mountain in North America. Everyone interested in learning the details of this unusually difficult climb is urged to attend...
...world's fair was born seven years ago when three leading citizens met for drinks at the Washington Athletic Club. Two members of the Chamber of Commerce and a newspaperman convivially agreed that it would be nice for Seattle to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition with another, grander fair. By the time the three reached the label on the bottle, the fair was no joke, and things began to happen. The city pledged $10 million for an opera house, a theater and an exhibition hall. The state put up $10 million more...
...most undergraduates relaxed in warm, sunny climes this summer, a group from the Harvard Mountaineering Club spent 23 days climbing Mt. Logan in the Canadian Yukon amid one of the area's worst storms. The five-member expedition was trapped in 60mile-an-hour blowing snow and sub-zero temperatures but escaped with only a minor case of frostbite to one of the climbers...
...Logan, at 19,850 feet the second highest peak in North America, is part of the St. Elias Range in the Northwest corner of the Canadian Yukon. The group set out to conquer two of the mountain's three peaks--the East Peak and the main central summit...