Bastion and Other Peaks, Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island. In

Bastion and Other Peaks, Cum berland Peninsula, Baffin Island. In M ay and June Sam Crym ble, A lan Kim ber, T erry Sm ith and I were west of the head of K ingnait Fiord in the C um berland Peninsula, based on w hat is unofficially called “South A m erica L ake.” W e had only eight good days out of 35, and this at the end of a very hard w inter. N um erous peaks were attem pted and reconnoitered and the following new peaks were climbed: Bastion, R eference 168663; Odlid, 200662; G yr, 150660; Tomes, 145673; Ognob, 143675. All were done by easy ridges. The 3500-foot north face of Bastion was also unsuccessfully attem pted w ith a bivouac in a cave at the top of the icefield, 1000 feet up. The great dihedral rising another 2000 feet from the icefield would be a spectacular line, overhanging and ice-filled in places; a crack system exists on the pillar to the right. Cold and bad w eather halted the attem pt. K im ber and Smith climbed a 3000-foot rock ridge to the north of South A m erica Lake and a devious line on the “South Face of South Faces” above Base Camp. Aside from the great line on Bastion, the area seemed to us to have a frustrating com bination of blank, featureless walls and rather scrappy alternatives. R o g e r O ’D

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