Huascarán. Peru’s highest peak had not been reached outside the months of June, July and August till the Alaska Andean Expedition reached its 22,205-foot south summit on the Ides of March. David P. Johnston, Peter H. Robinson and I left commercial transportation at Mancos at 8425 feet on March 12 without pack animals or porters. We made our high camp at 19,000 feet in the Garganta on the 14th. After our successful summit day, a storm kept us from visiting the north peak too. We walked out the 1962 avalanche gorge to Yungay on the 18th.

Vin Hoeman