Avalanche Kills Student Scaling Canadian Peak

Two members of a Mountaineering Club expedition to scale Mt. Waddington, highest peak in British Columbia, brought back word yesterday of the sudden death of Charles Shiverick '50, killed by an avalanche in the 13,260 foot ascent.

William L. Putnam '45 and David Michael, Jr. '48, returned to Tatla Lake in the northwest Canadian province to relate how Shiverick, of Lowell House and Cleveland, Ohio, had been caught with three companions in a slide on July 22 in the so-called Scimitar glacier, some 150 miles northwest of Vancouver.

Died Instantly

Shiverick, it was reported, died instantly of punctured lungs, but the trio with him were only slightly injured. They buried his remains in a gorge and painfully made their way back to the base camp three miles away.

Except for Leonard J. Winchester of New Haven, a Yale student, and Fred Beckey of Seattle, the other members of the nine-man party were all members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club.

Magoun in Party

Francis P. Magoun '50, Shiverick's roommate, was also a member of the group, and his mother, wife of Francis P. Magoun '16, professor of Comparative Literature, told reporters yesterday that Putnam, who scaled Mt. St. Elias in Alaska last summer, was leading the expedition along with Beckey.

Mrs. Magoun added that the group left Cambridge in the middle of June, and was expected to return late in August. Other members of the expedition are Harry C. King '49, Graham Mathews, a Law School student, and W. Laurence Miner '47. Miner, however, was believed to have dropped out before the actual climb because of ill health.