sentences:  Under his tenure as editor the "Journal" became one of the pre-eminent worldwide journals of record for mountaineering.He continued to participate in mountaineering expeditions, including one to survey Ojos del Salado (6,893 m) in 1956, several trips to the Cordillera Blanca in Peru, and a second expedition to Nanda Devi in 1976, which he co-led with Louis Reichardt and Willi Unsoeld.Due to his long work as editor of the "American Alpine Journal", Carter became an important chronicler of mountaineering.