Post-1940 pattern insignia with a roughly, 65mm tall, 50mm wide, vertically oval, machine woven, yellow rayon base with a machine woven edelweiss flower with thirteen irregular white petals, an eight bulb, yellow stamen and dual green leaves and stem all in rayon threads. The edelweiss is encompassed with a simulated, pale yellow rayon mountaineer rope border, with a pale yellow piton to the top center.