Gauntlet Peak, Baffin Island. In August Ken Hunter, Frank Gordon and I climbed in the Pangnirtung Pass region. Base Camp was established at 500 feet below the west buttress of Gauntlet Peak. Advanced Base was made two days later at 2500 feet in the cirque between Mount Turnweather and Gauntlet Peak. After reconnaissance we rejected the north face of Turnweather due to continuous rockfall. We attempted a route on the south face of the west rib. After climbing a 1300-foot ice-and-snow gully and six rock pitches, we retreated because of rockfall and overhangs at a high point of 4300 feet on the 6050-foot peak. From Base Camp Hunter and Gordon climbed a rock route on Gauntlet Peak via a shallow cirque on the western side. The route was 21 pitches and F9.

Barry Allen Nelson, Geneva Spur Limited