OSTHEIMER TO SCALE FOUR MOUNTAIN PEAKS

The final plans for the expedition which A. J. Ostheimer '29 is leading into the Clemenceau ice fields in Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies were announced yesterday.

On the trip, which will take the greater part of the summer, Ostheimer hopes to ascend four of the highest mountains in the Rockies; Mount Columbia, the North Twin, and Mounts Clemenceau and Robson, a feat which has never been accomplished before. Seven men will go on the expedition, two besides Ostheimer being Harvard undergraduates.

Jasper, Alberta will be the starting point and the seven explorers will start from there on June 23 working their way up the Athabaska River to its head waters, which are on the northern slopes of the Columbia ice fields.

The great tri-oceanic divide is at these head waters, while the Continental Divide at Fortress Pass has been perplexing geologists for a number of years by its queer fluctuations. Water from the Columbia-ice fields runs to the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans. Ascending the Athabaska River the party will approach the region from the north; camp will be made and the peaks of Mount Columbia 12,295 feet high, and the North Twin 12,085 feet high, will be attempted. If the peaks are reached, it will represent the first ascents from the northern sides, which are rocky as compared to the snowy and ice covered southern slopes.

Is the weather conditions are favor able while the party is in camp it will try to ascend Mount Alberta, which was first scaled in 1925 by a party of Japanese. Hans Fuhrer who will be the guide on this trip was also on the Japanese expedition and it is rumored that a silver ice axe, a gift from the Emperor of Japan to the leader of the party, was left at the peak.

The last mountain to be tried will be Mount Tzar the ascent of which will recuire a six day trip from the base of surplies. In all these trips geological data and glacerial measurements will be made by Ostheimer.

From Mount Tzar the party will move over to British Columbia, re-crossing into Alberta by the Athabaska Pass, an old fur-trade route first crossed in 1811.

An atempt will then be made on Mount Hooker one of the highest peaks of the region.

In his original plans Ostheimer had decided on ascending only two of these mountains but finding that he will probably have the necessary time, he has enlarged his plans in order to include the other two peaks.

Mt. Robson will be tried in September by Fuhrer and Ostheimer after the main party has returned to Jasper.

Ostheimer will take moving pictures with pancheomatic films and will also take color photographs, for the National Geographic Society if they seem to be sufficiently valuable.

The seven men making the trip are: Hans Fuhrer, Swiss guide; David Moberley, and Kenneth Saladana, both packers; Donald Hoover, cook; John de Laitire '29, W. R. MacLaurin '29, and A. J. Ostheimer '29