With the Mountain Climbers

As a small but active group, the Dartmouth \Mountaineering Club, since its founding in 1936 by Jack Durrance '39, has offered to Dartmouth men and townspeople alike the opportunity to learn and practice the techniques necessary for safe climbing in the more rugged mountains of the world. The latest men to avail themselves of this opportunity, members of the class of '56, already show outstanding promise for the coming years.

In a larger sense the Club has sought to teach the enjoyment of mountains as something more Americans should come to know. Of all true sports, mountaineering is unique in that there is no competition with other people or with any living thing. Yet a mountain can put up a struggle greater than the mightiest football team, the toughest fighter, or the most ferocious grizzly bear.

Despite successes the Club suffers severely from lack of long-experienced leadership. It is hoped that a circle of interested alumni can be built up who can furnish mature guidance to the younger members. To promote alumni participation a 10-to-15-dollar life membership is being considered and has already received some enthusiastic response. The Club is interested not only in those who were members as undergraduates, but in those who have become interested in mountaineering since graduation.

In order to keep undergraduates, alumni, and other mountaineers informed of what the D.M.C. is doing, the Club now publishes a Journal annually. First published in 1938, then discontinued until 1951. the Journal now comes out in a limited edition of 150 copies. The Journal for 1952 (May 1953) will include eight full-page illustrations, three special new maps of part of the Purcell Range, B.C. (for those who have visited or plan to visit the Bugaboo region), and a number of articles. Among the subjects to be covered are Shark's Tooth (Colorado), a new route up Mount Moran (Tetons), a traverse of the Monte Rosa Range in the Alps, first ascents in the Purcell Range, routes on Owl's Head Cliff, and various activities of the Club during the year. The price of the Journal is $1.50 and orders should be addressed to the Club in Robinson Hall.

Recently the Club has sent out to past members a notice of the Journal together with a questionnaire dealing with graduate membership and participation. Unfortunately the lists are very incomplete and many men have certainly been missed. Therefore we hope all those interested in climbing with, corresponding with, or reading about the D.M.C. will send in their addresses.

DARTMOUTH ASCENT: Mt. Taurus in the Purcell Range, British Columbia, was climbed last summer by Bill Briggs '54 (shown at Camp ill). Bob Collins '54 and Pete Robinson '54. This was the second ascent of the mountain, the first having been made in 1946 by a party including Ed Little '41 and Professor Rosenstock-Huessy.