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Well, that was surprising! Record cold temperatures, days of snow, and a deluge of rain to wash it all down, what a start to the year!
In November, we announced that the executive was working a member's Code of Conduct. As the club grows, it's essential to have a clear position about member conduct on club trips. The club executive and officers, led by Vice President, Ken Warren, have created a draft of the policy. Before the policy is presented at the Annual General Meeting, we would like some members to review it and provide feedback. If you have the time to volunteer, please contact me.
Regards,
Matthew Lettington
President
Film Presentation: 1925, The First Conquest of Mount Logan
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Date: February 3, 2020
Time: 6 PM -- the 45 minute film will start after some time for talk and an intro by Lindsay Elms
Location: 6250 Hammond Bay Road; Vancouver Island Regional Library
Lindsey Elms and the Island Mountain Ramblers invite you to experience the very first ascent of Mount Logan, Canada’s tallest mountain, located in the Yukon’s Kluane mountain range. The first successful climb of the mountain was in 1925 and took six weeks to complete. It was captured on 16 mm camera by climbers H.M. Laing and Allen Carpe of the American Alpine Club. The Yukon Archives holds a 16 mm print of the film. This is a silent film with title cards.
Mt Logan, was named by Israel C Russell, of the US Geological Survey, in 1890. It was named for Sir William Edward Logan (1798-1875), who formed the Geological Survey of Canada. It has a massif with 11 peaks over 5,000 m (16,400 ft) and is the highest peak in Canada and the second-highest in North America (after Mt McKinley in Alaska). In 1925, Mt Logan was the highest unclimbed peak on the North American continent.
The summit is 19,551 ft/ 5959 +/- 3 m. It is sixteen miles to the summit from 9,000 ft. It is 100 miles around at the base —the largest circumference of any non-volcanic mountain on the planet. It is 3,000 miles further north than Everest. Eternal ice and snow stretch 16,000 ft (compared to Everest's 12,500), and it looms 14,000 ft above the biggest glacial area in the world, apart from the Antarctic and Greenland.
The 1925 Expedition
Subscriptions totalling $12,790 had been collected by the Alpine Club of Canada. The expedition was to be filmed, so Hamilton Mack Laing travelled to Seattle, to learn from Pathé how to use the 16mm movie camera. He was authorized to shoot 4,000 feet. Allen Carpe would film the climb, using a camera designed for extreme cold.
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Report the names of trip participants and/or a trip report for our blog,
Timberline Tales!
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