Climbs and Expeditions A N ote
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G r a t it u d e ,
T h e A m erican A lp in e Club is very gratefu l
to all th ose w ho hav e con tribu ted in form ation , especially to this section. It is im p ossib le to m en tion all w h o have b een h elp fu l, but sp ecial than ks to n on -m em b ers fo r m any years o f assistance are giv en to Mr. Ichiro Y oshizaw a, Sr. C ésar M orales A rnao, Dr. G. O. D yhren fu rth, Dr. A d o lf D iem b erg er and countless oth er friends.
UNITED STATES A la s k a M ount M cK in ley.
Aside from the climbs noted elsewhere in this
Jou rn al, the following ascents were made of the main or south summit: In tern ation al A laska E x p ed ition , J. Richard Hechtel, Kurt Bittlingmaier, Peter Hennig, Lowell Smith, Bernhard Segger on May 4 via W est Buttress; M inn esota M cK in ley E x p ed ition , Roland Fleck, Robert Stolzenbach, SvenOlaf Swarding on June 8 and John D . Peterson, B ill Coats, John Frantz on June 9 via W est Buttress; C hina L a k e M cK in ley E x p ed ition , Carl Heller, Ernst Bauer, Dennis Burge, Russell O. Huse, Jam es R . Nichols, Charles D. Ringrose, Robert P. Stein, Robert E. W estbrook, Frank G. Buffum, Jr. on July 11 via W est Buttress; W estern States M cK in ley E x p ed ition , Paul Gerhard, Louis Reichardt, Loyd Price, Roger Derryberry, Peter McGann, Steven Altman on July 27 via W est Buttress; M ou n tain eer ing Club o f A laska E x p ed ition , W illiam H. Babcock, Gayle E. Nienhueser, Chester S. Hackney, Jeff Babcock, John Ireton on July 2 9 via Muldrow Glacier and Karsten’s Ridge.