CREATING A LEGACY

The expedition plans to carefully document the trip with pictures and sketches, aiming to record the journey for posterity.

Rennell, who is studying cinematography and is also Crimson editor, will make a film of the expedition to submit to international film festivals.

Laura Fox, a research assistant at MIT, will serve as an expedition photographer, as will Holmes.

“I think the combination of Laura [Fox] and my photography and Corey’s movie is gonna pack a punch that will make for a good combination at slide shows for years to come—yet another piece to add to Harvard Mountaineering history,” Holmes says.

The expedition members will sketch the area, creating guides to assist future climbers and hikers. They will include locations of mountains, ridges, glaciers, and other features, but will not draw up a formal map.

They say they plan to send their results to the AAC and the International Mountaineering Federation, which is based in Switzerland.

“I think it’s definitely a great expedition in that it’s getting out there and doing some exploring, which I think is a great objective,” said Jason C. Manke of the AAC. “There just aren’t too many people in our society who want to go and explore.”

Before the club’s weekly meeting last Thursday, Laursen pulled old volumes of their journal off a bookshelf.

The club has published dozens of issues of the “Harvard Mountaineering” journal since 1927, which contain accounts and pictures from various trips the club has taken to locations like the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alaska, and the Himalayas.

After a recent ten-year hiatus, Laursen helped re-launch and edit the journal, which came out again last December.

Because of this expedition, these journals will be updated in time for the club’s 80th anniversary.

“We wanted to start an expedition in the tradition of the old days,” Laursen says. “We’re picking up where it was left off.”