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“We had _to -cross big -

night, although’ there was goné on we would almost

perpetual sunlight, as the

“base snow. was firmer when __‘our..members. _with severe. a:

ro crevasses and fell down them

. fairly regularly, ; ough

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you've got ropes on.

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, “Camp one to camip two |

was a desperate stretch,” he

an alpine ascent, carrying

everything with us on our
backs.”

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These initial’ difficulties
oo were largely responsible for
them failing to reach Good

. Neighbor Peak —- right.on
the Alaska-Yukon border —
where re they had been making

_ for. 2

* * says on reflection. “We had
to make the decision. to.
change our style of assault to

the temperature dropped.

» By the time they were at
camp four, though, some
15,000 feet. up,.the tem-

FOOD SHORTAGES |

“We had limited food and

had lost a lot’of time,” White

Says. “We spent most of the
time on knife-edge ridges.”

Most of the climbing in
the early stages was done at

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. “The avalanches were just -

unbelievable,” he says, and
they could see the weather
was changing onthem. -

“We had tohave a full-

scale retreat from camp four

because-of the wind and the
storm coming in. It had
spindrift in it — blowing ice
particles into your eyes and
down your lungs.” °

“The wind was getting so
strong that the climbers were
having ‘difficulty in even
standing jand so they turned
back just: 590 feet from their

‘We're not into conquering
peaks’

perature drop became just
too severe.

The wind- chill factor
‘brought the temperature to
about 40 degrees below zero
and White says: “If we'd

TEA AT TEN thousand feet, expedition leader Roger
Griffiths takes time out for a cuppa before tackling the
next gruelling section of climbing.

goal.

AVALANCHE

White was the last man in
the procession down and had
a hair-raising experience in
an avalanche when he ended
up standing on a slab of soft
snow which broke off the
main section. His life ended
up hanging on by gin ice axe
which he anchored in at the
end of 15 feet ‘of rope
supported by Rob McLaren.

Of having to turn back
when so near to their goal,
White says: “We were
somewhat disappointed but
given the violerice of the
weather we weren't
desperately upset. We're not
into conquering peaks.”

Greatest
they felt was in establishing
an alternative route. up the.
mountain,

named Clone/Route,
” their. idential clothing “and.

perpetual clowning around:

made the name appropriate.

Far from being
discouraged, White says the
entire team wants to return
to the Yukon for more
climbing and says of the
achievement:

“I think it gave a boost to
‘Canadian climbing, par-
ticularly as no other com-
munity college has ever done
anything like this.”

- Roman emperor

weingns West Vanco
1s stopping.
-dwellers from
their living --spaces to
balconics with the = en-
dorsation of a long-dead
Roman emperor.

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Alderman Doreen
BlackBurn said last’ week
that people have gone so far
x as to glass in their balconies

and remove the separation
“ walls.

This practice violates the

floor space ratios permitted
during construction, she
said.

Council is requiring that
all balcony enclosures work
be done under permit and
; that enclosures be framed in

a similar manner to the
building windows. The
original separating wall
between suite and balcony
must be retained.

wacil _
tat “y etry Lester

-oxpanding discussion —

_ guides W -Van Cou

The Municipal manager

because he owns an apart-
ment in a building in which
some of the owners have
enclosed their balconies.

Asked by Mayor Derrick
Humphreys if the problem
enclosures number in the
hundreds or thousands,
Lester replied that walking
from Ambleside to 25th,

some 25 enclosures can be
seen.

In connection with the
issuc, Mayor Derrick
Humphreys read a memo
from municipal solicitor
Bruce Emerson’ who
commented, “It will remind
them (council) that there is
nothing new in the sun:

‘IN THIS OUR ROYAL
CITY one of the most

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preserve it-we~enacted—that—

no
erected within 100 feet of the
sea front. This law has been
circumvented by certain
individuals. They first put up
buildings conforming with
this law; then they put up in
front of them awnings which

‘cut off the sea view without

breaking the law, next put
up a building inside the
awning, and finally removed
the awning. Anyone who
offends in this way must be
made to demolish the
building he has put up and
further pay a fine of ten

pounds of gold.
—63rd Edict of the
Emperor Justinian Ever

August, Given at the Im-
perlal City of Constantine,
Anno Domini 538.”

achievement _

building-—shoultd--be—|-- —-—-——-- -- ——

PATHWAY ACROSS THE RIDGE is visible-in this picture of the route taken by the
Capilano College team and which they.eventually named.the Clone Route. The drop

each side is 1,000 feet and team. members "regularly fell over’ while roped to each
other for safety.

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