North America, Alaska-Yukon Border, Success on Mt. Vancouver

Publication Year: 1949.

Success on Mt. Vancouver. On 5 July 1949 four climbers reached the summit of Mt. Vancouver (15,720 ft.), which had been the highest unclimbed peak in North America. The party consisted of Noel Odell, William R. Hainsworth, Robert S. McCarter and Alan Bruce-Robertson, members of the expedition sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America and led by Walter A. Wood. We shall hope to publish an account of the ascent in our next issue.*

*For an account of the reconnaissance in 1948, see F. P. Magoun, III, “Mount Vancouver’s North Ridge,” Appalachia, XXVII (June 1949), 321-33. Cf. also “Glacier Expedition,” Life, 11 July 1949, pp. 47-9.