Noshaq. I reached the summit of Noshaq on August 25. My companion, Gerry Martens, turned back only 200 feet below the main summit because of bad weather.*

Brian R. Gregory, Free-lance Alpine Research Team

* The Americans had joined forces with three Spanish climbers, Luis Blanco-Magadán, José Miguel Cuevas and Antonio Alsina, the Swiss Eduard Hauser and the German Ewald Ruf. Cuevas reached the summit on August 25 and Ruf on the 26th.