The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-10-15
MORE CHARGES
MADE AGAINST
DR.. FRED. COOK
6. N. Barrin Says He Never
Reached Summit of Mt.
Mckinley in 1905.
d AssocIated Rreaa.

~ Assoctateo Pre6os
New York, Oct. 14.-The Globe this
evening prints a copy OF the affidavit
made by Edwin n. Barri1l, who &C
companied Dr.. Frederick A. Cook at
the time he announced his reaching
the summit OF Mount Mckinley. The
a11ldaVit was made before a notary
public at Tacoma, Washington, on
October 4, and has just been received
In New York BarriiPs affidavit states
In effect that he was the only person
present with Dr.. Cook on the date
when he claims 70 have reached the
summit OF Mount Mckinley; that they
did not In fact reach the summit,
and the nearest point to the summit
reached would be at least fourteen
miles distant from the summit Of that
mountain, the elevation at no time ex-
ceeding $1,000 feet. Barrill's AFFIDAVIT
also brings into question a number OF
the photographs which DR.. Cook has
given as representing the summit and
pther high attitudes Of Mount McKin-
ley.
STARTED ON TRIP.
The af1davtt then proceeds as fol-
bows:
"On the evening of September 9,
1906, DR.. Cook and started alone for
the purpose OF exploring Mount Nc
Kinley. He informed me before
starting that his purpose was to find
q way for ascending the mountain, as
be and Professor Parker intended to
climb the mountain the following
year.
I'VE quit any further attempts to-
ward ascending the mountain upon
September Is and returned to the
boat, a gasoline launch named Boel-
Ehey, which lay in the water at the
foOf nj fhn o1eafpT
ION September 18th, when at our
nrst camp returning from the glacier,
Cook "dOctored" the dairy and
!. changed the entries therein from and
including September 9 down to and
Including September 18th. These
changes were made under the orders
1of DIR. Cook
= CDR. Cook first told me to stop my
diary ON September 18th, when we
yere ii our fifth camp going up the
glacier, and at or near the point
which DR.. Cook claimed as the top Of
Mount Mckinley. My best recOllec-
tions of this are as follows: DR.. Cook
and / went to the top Of this point
together, and he said we will go back
down and get a picture of this We
s did not take our bags with us to the
top Of the point, having left them
down in the saddle above the glacier.
point to where our bags had been left.
The doctor took the American flag
out of one OF the bags and handed 1t
to me, and sent me back to the top
of the point, and told me to hold 1t
there on the end of the ice axe, which
did.
The doctor then with his camera
took the picture shown opposite page
R27, which picture is there designated
as the summit Of Mount Mckinley
In his work TO the Top OF the Cont
nent'
TWENTY MILES DISTANT.
"The truth being that the summit
OF Mount Mckinley was over twenty
miles distant In an air line from the
point where my picture was so taken,
according to the scale on DR.. Cooks
map s-own between pages 152 and
i53 In the book referred to above. IL
then came down with the flag to
where DR.. Cook was standing with his
camera, and l made the remark that
the eight peaks on the other side OF
this point, where 1 had been photo
graphed. would probably show in the
nicture. and he said that he had taken
the picture at such an angle that
those peaks would not show.
WITH COOK ALL TIME.
'T was with DR.. Cook continuously
every day during the time which he
was trying to ascend the mountain in
the wear 1906 and the nearest point
TO the summit OF Mount Mckinley
which we reached was at least four
teen miles distant from the summit
of that mountain and at no time did
ne reach an elevation in excess OF
10000 feet and the doctor told me
when we were at the place where my
,,ict,,,,a was taken that we were not
over 5000 feet high. / neglected to
state that on the sixteenth OF Sep
TENDER and on the evening of Sep
TENDER ninth, DR.. Cook asked me If
was willing TO stay with him. said
'yes'. when he said: will see you
get $4,000 extra for doing So
ss,The photograph opposite page III
In DR.. Cooks book above mentioned