North America, Canada, Canadian Arctic, Bylot Island

Publication Year: 1982.

Bylot Island. In May Caroline Cochran, Eric Rosenfeld, Frederick Vosburgh and I engaged in a mini-expedition to Bylot Island. In 1974 Curt Saville, my wife and I had landed on the island and climbed P 4064 a few miles up the previously unexplored Narsarsuk Glacier (C.A.J., 1975: pp 95-98). This year we returned in the spring and traveled from Pond Inlet by komatik and skidoo. Using mountaineering skis and pulling small fiberglass sledges, we ascended the Narsarsuk Glacier to its head about 10 miles inland and also made first ascents of two peaks, P 5332 at 73°0'30?N; 76°26?W and Pc. 5100 at 72°58'30?N; 77°25'W (Map Reference Canada NTS 1:500,000 Pond Inlet.) Kindly refer to C.A.J., 1982 for further details.

George Van B. Cochran, M.D.