Inaugurating its thirteenth season with the scaling of Rattlesnake Hill this Sunday, the Mountaineering Club will begin a series of weekend climbs in preparation for an expedition into the Canadian Rockies in July.
Among the eight summer expeditions during the past five years the organization's most ambitious attempt was the successful ascent of Mt. Nanda Devi in the Indian Himalayas last August. With this record behind them the club has earned the distinction of having climbed to the greatest height ever reached by man.
Opportunity to scale peaks of the famous Canadian Selkirk range this summer will be offered to new members who have made good during the spring practice in the vicinity. The group, which boasts a membership of 115, claimed that a member of the Nanda Devi party hd never climbed before his Freshman year, learned the arts of the rope on Rattlesnake Hill.
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