Mount McKinley, New Start on the American Direct Route, South Face. A Japanese expedition led by Kichitaka Kimura and composed of Ms. Tamae Watanabe, Yuji Tsuneto, Mitsuo Yamaura and Yushichi Senda made a new direct start on the direct route of the Centennial Wall and joined the American route of 1967 some 3300 feet up the wall. They climbed the lower 1000 feet on June 23. A fall into a crevasse the next day luckily had no ill effects. Camps were placed at 13,800, 14,750 and 16,400 feet on June 30, July 4 and 9. The whole party set out from Camp III on July 13 and reached the summit the next day after a bivouac. Further details and a marked photograph are found in Iwa To Yuki, 59, of February, 1978.