CLUB TO MAKE 5 ICE CLIMBS

Ice-climbing is the main activity of the Mountaineering Club this winter, according to its vice-president Andrew F. Kauffman '43. For eight years there have been no more than two ice-climbs a year, none of which were scheduled ahead of time, but this season will see a total of five.

The club has already made two climbs in Huntington Ravine on Mount Washington, working from its cabin near there, the first of a week's duration in Christmas vacation, and the second three days long.

This weekend the club will attempt a new ascent on Mount Willard, near the Presidential Range and again in March the members will return to Huntington Ravine to try one of the north gullies. The club plans to take the first colored movies of ice-climbs in its history on the Willard trip.

Club Testing Material for Army

Among the group's other activities is the testing of equipment for the army's mountaineering battalion, now rapidly approaching the proportions of a division, but the army will not release details of this work.

On March 4 the club will hold a formal dinner at the Harvard Club. Guest speaker Walter Wood, president of the American Geographical Society, will describe his ascents of Mount Wood and Mount Walsh in Alaska. He was accompanied by Robert H. Bates '33, graduate member of the Mountaineering Club. W. Os-good Field '26 will tell of his geological glacier work with Mayuard Miller '43, who is president of the club. Motion pictures of spectacular rock climbs by the "Mountaineers", a club in the state of Washington, will also be shown.