CANADA Yukon Territory

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CANADA Yukon Territory Logan, A tlantic Peak, Badham and Donjek. A num ber o f expeditions successfully clim bed M ount Logan. The follow ing com pleted the clim b by the King Trench: C anadians L arry D olecki, M yron Tetrault, R ichard Peters and Stuart O ’C onnor clim bed the m ountain betw een M ay 20 and June 10; C anadians Karl Nagy, Steve Ludw ig, Terry O lson, H elen Sovodat, Peter D onitz, A m erican Rob Landis, B ritons C onrad D ickinson and D avid D unne betw een M ay 26 and June 13; French clim bers M ichel Thom ain, C atherine C hevalier and François R enard betw een M ay 31 and June 16; A m ericans Chris Pilaro, D avid Lovejoy, Canadians Chris Sw eland and Peter C arter betw een June 5 and 27. U nsuccessful on that route w ere A m ericans led by B rent Griffin, A m ericans led by Philip Peabody, C anadians led by A rm in H asenkox, A m ericans led by Bob T hom pson and A m ericans led by K am M ing Chan. The E ast Ridge o f Logan was clim bed to the m ain sum m it by the follow ing: Canadians Tim Styles and D an D avis betw een M ay 31 and June 21; C anadians Jeff Perron and G ary M illard betw een June 3 and 20; A m ericans M ahm oud Asefi, R ebecca Asefi and Rey Ram os betw een June 17 and July 20; to the east sum m it only: C anadians Jon H eshka and G eoff Vick betw een M ay 13 and 20; C anadians Karl N agy and H elen Sovodat betw een June 14 and 21; M exicans A lberto R uiz and Jorge F ernández betw een M ay 30 and June 20. U nsuccessful on the east ridge w ere A m ericans led by Bill M attison, C anadians and 1 Swiss

led by Yves M artin, and A m ericans led by David Custer. A m ericans Wally Orr, R aym ond Z irbulis and Keith Schum acher were turned back on the Indepen­ dence Ridge o f Logan on June 7 by an avalanche at 10,000 feet. The first ascent of A tlantic Peak (4879 m eters, 16,008 feet), w hich lies close to Lucania, was made by C anadians John C hilton, Jim C ondon and R ichard Prokaska. An expedition led by C anadian G ordon Betania failed on this sam e m ountain betw een M ay 13 and June 5. M ounts B adham a n d D onjek were ascended by C anadians Pat Egan, Paul H enstridge, Bob Jickling and Alan Jones betw een A pril 25 and M ay 6 and by C anadians A rno Springer, Ian Pineau, Jennifer Standiforth, M artin Berkm an, Jill Pangm an and Bruce M cLean betw een M ay 14 and 29. B adham was ascended by C anadians H ayden Pritchard and Jeffrey H ew itt B etw een M ay 29 and June 5 and by A m ericans G eoff Scherer, M ark M akela and C hristopher H am m el betw een June 14 and 26. A

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