North America, Canada, Yukon Territory, Mount Logan and Mount Kennedy

Publication Year: 1981.

Mount Logan and Mount Kennedy. Climbing activity in Kluane National Park was again up this year. We had 30 groups made up of 158 people spending a total of 3693 man-days in the park. Five parties climbed the King Trench route of Mount Logan successfully: Canadians Dave Wood, Thomas Pulaski, Rick Hum, Dave King, Art Burrows and Paul Parker; Canadians Siegfried Noestaller, Walter Burns, Dominic Niehaus and Reinhold Plankensteiner; Canadians Martyn Williams, Hector McKenzie, Bob Jickling, John Solem, Gordon Blanz, Russel Patrick and Mike Beedel; Swiss Kurt Hegglin, Franz Stocker, Hans Studer, Hans- Beat Süss and Hans Renggli; and Canadians Roland Reader, Peter Mix, Stanley Rosenbaum and James H. Whitteker. Six groups climbed the east ridge: Canadians William Norrie, Paul Zimmerman, Tom Saunders and David Pors; Canadians Christopher Kubinski, Rick Engman, Leonard Potter and Columb Puttick; Canadians Kevin O’Connell, David Hobill, Saul Greenberg, Howard Bussey, Carl Lund and Paul Ritzema; Canadians Gerald Holdsworth, France Fux, Mike Maxwell and Robert Oruig; Canadians Rob Kelly, Peter Charkin, Pete Ford and Patrick Paul; and Canadians Willie Pfeisterer, Tim Auger, Peter Perrin, Murray Hindle, Tom Davidson, Chuck Hume, Ron Chambers, Rick Staley, Doug Buries and Lloyd Freese. Americans Franz Mohling, Paul O‘Sullivan, Jim Bock, Sarah Chaney, Chuck Huss and Tom Masterson successfully climbed the Centennial Ridge of Mount Logan but did not go on to the summit. Three groups climbed Mount Kennedy via the Cathedral Glacier: Americans James Eason, Peter Hoose, Linda Laterneau, John Murphy, Tim Neale and Tracy Sheer; Japanese Akira Nakamura, Hideo Saito, Kougo Sato, Shingo Yamamori, Masao Abe and Kautoshi Onishi; and Japanese Hide- hiro Sugawara, Kiyoshi Yamakawa, Masaru Watanabe and Katsuhiro Sasaki.

Lloyd Freese, Kluane National Park