Hard-cover with dust jacket good ex library condition Publisher: Herbert Jenkins, 1954 First Edition illustrated. . 213 p. Former Library book.

Report of the Harvard Andean Expedition organized by a group of Harvard students in 1950.

First ascent of the highest peak (6617m, via W Face & S Ridge) in Cordillera Huayhuash in Peru by a group of Harvard (& 2 Stanford) students that included George Bell.

"Mount Yerupaja in Peru, 21,769 feet...is known as The Butcher...The face of The Butcher, steeper than a ski jump, its ridges wind-etched sharper than a razor, was climbed, but the hazards of its ascent were immense and in the final analysis nearly cost two lives." b/w photo frontis. + 14 further b/w photo illustrations and a map showing position of camps en route.