The Harvard Mountaineering Club is an undergraduate organization of Harvard College. Founded in 1924, the HMC is one of the oldest college mountaineering clubs in the USA, with a long record of exploratory mountaineering.
Read more about Harvard Mountaineering Club: Early History, Washburn Years, Second World War, Post-war Years, Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties, The Club Today, Recent Leadership
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