Coleman Glacier Face, Mount Baker. A new variation of the Coleman Glacier (northwest) face route was made in May by Hank Mathers and Les MacDonald of Vancouver, B. C. From the ice funnel at the base of the 2000-foot summit wall they climbed directly upward, keeping left of the two routes made in the fall of 1957. They had to negotiate some very dangerous and loose ice-rubble. Two walls required ice pitons for aid. They reached the upper north ridge where it converges with the west summit.

Fred Beckey