Mountaineers Arrive, Prepare for Ascent

Advance members of the Mountaineering Club's Peruvian expedition landed in Peru yesterday with just ten days to wrap up final plans for their assault on the 21,769-foot Butcher of the Andes.

Austen F Riggs II '48 2G and George I. Bell '48 stepped off a Pan-American clipper at 6 a.m. If all goes well, they will meet the other four student-mountaineers at a desert crossroads Friday, June 23.

Before then, they must unload, almost a ton of equipment from shipping docks, buy another half ton in Lima, and truck it all to the Indian village of Chiquian.