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THE CONQUERING OF MOUNT M’KINLEY
Thrilling in the extreme is the
story of the conquering of Mt. '
McKinley, as told in HEARST'S
MAGAZINE for December, by
Behnal Browne, of the Parker-
Browne expdition.
This story is only one of the
features of extraordinary inter
est in Hearst's Magazine. Hall
Caine's great novel, The Woman
Thou Gavest Me, " and Winston
Churchill's story of The Inside
of the Cup." are running serially,
and many other famous authors
contribute to the December num
ber.
Here follows a few excerpts
from the Conquering of the
Mountain so long assailed in
vain.
FTpsIJb'RE « omy • workmanlike
I way to reach the. northern face
»f Aft. McKinlex In tin- winter (
time ..ith dog s'.-
ITofesso:- IL 's 10l <' I’arkei ami (lie
v. liter hail • xiimixt"’.! ex cry other prom
ising apro.ieh. In ISOS we had ••tudieil
the western and southwestern ridges,
and in 1910 we had explored th, excef
sixex rugged glscleis and mountains
. f the southern approach.
During the latter < xplorations we had
.rie l the mountain at several different <
points between the southwestern,
southern and southeastern ridges, and
on one of these attempts we rem lied
our highest altitude of 10.300 feet. The I
problem of telling whether or not any
particular route to the summit of this
great peak is feasible is far more sim
ple thud one would suppose For Alt.
McKinley rises to such a high altitude
that unless the climbers find a route
where tbej can camp and transport
their food md shelter, th.-ir efforts
would fall .it the beginning.
almost every high mountain tn the
world rises from a high base. In South
America, for instance, the actual climb
ing of a 20,00(1.foot peak generally be
gins at an altitude of 16.000 feet or ov» r !
Whereas Ut McKinley rises from n 1
base of from four to five thousand feet,
leaving 15,000 feet of enow and ice to,
be negotiate.l, This fact makes Mr. Me.
Kit. -y tlic highest ixstli in th. world
above the ’Sim of perpetual wiov
No possib route to the summit • s
r . on any of the slopes seen by Pro- I
■fcfcsso: Parker and the writer in 1906
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THE SUMMIT OF THE TERRIBLE MOUNTAIN. TAKEN AT 19.000 FEET ALTITUDE
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Ihe ptirlt reavlied the highest point sliown here The true siinuuit is a sniaU dome hidden
from view by the right htind peak
Our party was composed of four met. '
Professor Parker. Arthur Aten. Mort
I.eVuy and the writer Ml our supp les
were drawn by two dog tennis, and t ■<
greater part of our freight was a de id
weight, as we could not its. it until w.
reached tile mountain Ev. ry mile that .
w- advanced cost u» at cast five extra
miles of travel, ns w< made an average
' t three relays during the ■ ntire trio.
First View of the Summit.
Al i tittle less than tn.lino i<. i we
1n..; our first near view of the summit..
The rocks ended and tin- ridge blomi
| < nod into >b< first swell ol tit. final
I “triunit Whin climbing the rjdg. the
>nd hml increased, and now the south-I
I rn sky bad dark. nt d and the w Ind was |
bow inc a small gale. Ahead of us was .
I > ounc dome some 300 f< > t tn altitude j
I that a t must drub tg fol ■ r, o hingj
TIIK A'l LAXTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.SATERDAV. DECEMBER 14. 1912.
(From Hearst’s Magazine for December)
' the snow of tie final summit. The
(footing was gvOd and w. male I iter
time.
By the tlnte w. had reached the foot
••I tlie utnmit th. wind w; s laden with
| dry snow, and from this point upward
I every landmark was wiped out and we
faced an cver-tnereaslng blizzard. We
nad *aken careful bearings, however,
and as long as w. were going uphill
we had no lem as far as out ability to
fee ’!• the final ridge was cot. died.
: But several other facts did worty us.
| When I 'gd.-d my turn o; step-chop- ,
' ping' at .’o.ooii feet I found that my
hand- were beginning to fi.-ze l.a
A’uy’s and my hands had beeonii . mil
led with tee in tin making of steps, and
| trom losing tbt ;i X ,. our leather-cov
ered mittens had. i.t turn, become cov
| "ted. Tin storm was so severe and
Jthe co, so tdtii.sH that I wa* actually
afraid to get new mitens out of my
riiuck-sack for fear that my Hands
would be frozen during the rm .ion.
in the lashing .sheets of dry sm>'.» I
could no longer see l.a A >y. ml Va -
lter, who wns’only 20 fee; ahead. was
a dim blur.
Kealizing our despecati position. I
concentrated my mind on getting tin
olooii back into ny hands. Inning the
process we wire rising slowly foot by
foot i- l.a A’oy finished the steps. At
times I could no longer see Parker.
I .md I iunl to feel lor the steps with
; tny Jee etei p.-rs. A: last 1 in tird l.a
I Vox's hail above i >-,<■ roat of the wind,
and km . !.i'. , . ten to ~ o p pad
conn 1. i, I, adv; am . to
thi steps win re l.a Any stood, and
w lien i .joined them we stood braced
ng in-t the -term and talked the sit
uation mer.
Oil - hind work had come to an end,
tor just above me I could nee between
t the clouds of snow a small berg-
I sehrund. or erack, that marked the
| shoulder of the ridge. 1 advanced to
’ the lee of this point, ami as I rose
: above it 1 was met by a frozen gale
j that, drove the breath from my body—
j I couldn't face ft.
• Quickly returning to my companions,
! 1 told them that we could do nothing
I at present on the summit Wo were
lin a. dangerous place. The summit of
■ the mountain was a horseshoe-shaped
j ridge about one-third of a mile in
i length with the opening facing east.
■lt xvas uneven on top. and from clear
views tint W. hid obtained 'from be
! low we knew that there was a hum-
I moek on -mall dome rising' from the
[northern land of the horseshoe suin
! mit.
At the Real Summit.
This small dome is, in al probability,
tile highest point on Mount MeKin-
Xow we were stormbound on the
northern -nd of tile horseshoe curve,
where tin mountain fell away to join
i the northeast ridge. According to our
tiavelina lime we were 250 feet above
the point where Professor Parker's
i 20.000-foot barometer had ceased to
j register.
« m r.-o dug 18,000 feet my barom
eter had agre-'d within 100 feet with
Professor Parker's. But as we ro.s. !
higher my instrument—probably duel
to fa’s- eompensution had dropped
with great rapidity to 17.200 feet, or,
the same altitude as our camp be- .
tween ‘he two peaks? From then un- |
til I etuimd to our IT.OOO-foot campl
i it was uselt-s, but on the following
day it regained its composure * and
‘egistered the -am. as Professot
I ’arker's.
Professor Parker's barometer behav
■ with alisolute egularity throughout
and as we knew that the final summit
I rose about fi>o feet above us. the sum
' mit. according to our calculations,
I would bv 20,450 feet above sea level.
The United States government places
the summit—by triangulation—at 20,300 !
■ feet, a -mall difference, indeed. i'm I
liaving from and returning to our base
( . amp. botli our barometers and a third
that Aten had <ad twice daily during
our absence closely agreed, and fur
thermore. all three agreed closely tx Uh
I Brook's contour lines.
On returning to my companions, we
' held a council of war. While we con'd
( probably hav. . ached tile summit in a
half hoif in clear weather, we were '
afraid to fact the pt esqjnt gale. With I
> | our glass, s covered with ice and fear-I
| | inc to remove them or. account of the ’
cold. w. w-re helpless, and could not!
.-at it other -ven when only sepa-I
, nt< d by a ft w feet I
i The fact that our steps were com-
pletely wiped out added to onr concern,
for we realized how difficult it would
be to find the narrow ridge where it
joined the smooth dome a thousand feet
below us. After looking over our posi
tion. we decided to take the odds of
fered and try to ride out the storm.
Chopped Out a Shelter.
Having once decided on this course,
we set to work and soon chopped a
small shelter in the hard snow. <>ur
hopes were soon blasted, however, for
after a few minutes of inaction we be
gan to feel the numbing .-t7 . ; o f the
cold. The gale was driving the dry
snow into every seam and pore of our
clothing, and the heat of our bodies
was turning the snow to ice.
Our parkas were becoming stiff and
the wolverine fur on our parkahoods
was frozen stiff from the moisture of
our breath: our mitt.-ns were hard with
ice. and we held our ice axes with diffi
culty. Our position was a unique on-,
as I do not believe the is a parallel
case in the history of mountaineering.
Had Mount McKinley's summit b-en
a peak we would have swung to tire
lei ward snow slopes and claimed a first
ascent. As it was, we wore on th- sum
mit’s edge, and but for the extent and
f< rmations of tins “ridge-summit” wc
I would have claimed the first ascent. \V
Iwe-.o in the position of a ship that had
| traveled thousands of miles to reach a
i certain city and had then been fog
l bound at the harbor's mouth.
This much remains to consoh us: As!
J tar as the climbing was concerned, we
conquered Mount McKinley—and when
some day a party stand on the highest
snow they will have followed our trait
to the last dome.
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