Mountaineer Will Show Film Today

Henry Bradford Washburn '33, veteran explorer and mountain climber, will show his technicolor film. "The Conquest of Mount McKinley" at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard Mountaineering Club in the Geographical Building at 8 p.m. tonight. The technical points of the climb will be featured.

Washbura, only three-time president of the HMC, has twice conquered Mt. McKinley. His second trip, shown in the films, was a science-backed expedition to test conditions at high altitude. Supplies hauled by dogs and dropped by airplane greatly eased his journey.

At 18,000 feet, the film shows an airplane parachuting a solar observation station, with technical scientific equipment, down safely to the waiting Washburn.

Washburn's wife, who also made the trip, became the first woman over to make the top of Mt. McKinley and is supposed to have climbed higher than any other woman in the world.