Munich, Aug. 14, The recent opening of the 63rd annual meeting of the German-Austrian Alpine Club was marked by the dedication of a room at the Munich Alpine Museum to German mountaineers overseas. Wall reliefs, photographs and maps show the different peaks and the success or failure of the expeditions which have attempted to reach their summits. In the centre of the room there ig a 1:10,000 scale model of the Nanga Parbat range, which in recent years has become' the grave of many climbers of different nationalities, the most recent victims being a German expedition.
The German-Austrian Alpine Society has about 200,000 members and its income from ' subscriptions is about £50,000 plus the profit from its magazine, interest, cie. This money is allocated mainly to the purchase of maps, the maintenance of huts and paths, guides, mountain watchmen, lectures, first aid organizations, rescue parties and the arrangement of foreign climbing tours Trans-Ocean,
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