Harvard Mountaineering Club. This year the Club has undergone

Harvard Mountaineering Club. This year the Club has undergone one of the cyclical fluctuations to which college clubs are so prone: it has suffered from a deficit of expeditionary mountaineers and had an abundance of good rock climbers. There has been greater emphasis on extreme rock climbing for its own sake, rather than on preparation for "the mountains.” A number of difficult routes (F9 and F10) have been done by members here in the East. This past summer the climbing camp was somewhat itinerant, with a group going to Yosemite and then the Tetons. Inde­ pendently several members also visited the Canadian Rockies, the Bugaboos and the Selkirks. However, graduate and associate members ranged farther afield. Dave Roberts made several first ascents in the Brooks Range, Alaska. Steve Arnon climbed Mount St. Elias. Peter Rowat pioneered new routes in the Logan Mountains. Dave Redmond and Ad Carter were with Richard Goody and Alan Cooper and Sam Streibert were with Boyd Everett on two separate expeditions in Peru. Finally Ned Fletcher and Ed Bernbaum took time off from Peace Corps work in Nepal to climb in the Himalayas. There was an emphasis this year on both weekday and weekend trips, and on lectures. Attendance for one beginners’ weekday trip was well over 50 and more than 20 showed up for a weekend in the Shawangunks. Surely the highlight of the lecture series was Royal Robbins’ combined movie and slide show on Yosemite climbing, given after the fall dinner; over 200 attended. K e v in B e in , President