Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-14

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fifth camp going up the glacier and at or
near the point which DR.. Cook claimed as
the top of Mount Mckinley. This point
was within sight of us at the time. DR..
Cook stated at this time and place that
exist on the top of Mount Mckinley, and
directed me to stop my diary until fur
Their orders.
Taking the Photograph.
"At this time he had been to the
top of the point claimed by the doctor as
the top of the mountain, and the doctor
had taken a photograph of the point
with me standing on the top thereof.
with the American flag in my hand. The
photograph to which refer is shown op-
posite page 227 of the doctors book. en-
titled To the Top Of the Continent be-
fore mentioned. The Jagged marks on
the apex of the snow in that picture
and shown from the bottom Of the picture
up to the granite rock forming the top
Of the point, are my foot marks and
those Of DIR. Cook. My best recollec-
tions of this are as follows: DR.. Cook and
I went to the top of this point together.
and he said. We will go back down and
get a picture Of this We did not take
our bags with us to the top of the
die above the glacier. We then both
went down from the point to where our
bags had been left. The doctor took
the American flag out of one Of the bags
and handed it to me, and sent me back
to the top of the point, and told me
to hold it there on the end of the ice
ak, which I did.
1.-THE doctor then with his camera took
the picture snoTn opposite pass
Summit Of Mount Mckinley in his
work, To the Top of the Continent
the truth being that the summit or
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 shown
between pages 152 and 1913 in the book
referred to above.
Avoided Showing the Peaks.
81 then came down with the flag to
where DR.. Cook was standing with his
camera, and / made the remark that the
eight peaks on the other side of this point
where I had been photographed would
probably show in the picture, and he said
that he had taken the picture at such an
angle that those peaks would not show.
The peaks to which / refer are sketched
by me in my diary and are marked 1 to g.
inclusive, and are shown in said diary on
the page just preceding the date appear
ing therein as September 8 and on the
pages following September II: These
peaks were SO sketched and numbered by
me when I was in the camps opposite
them, where / could have a fine view of
them. The camps where SO sketched the
peaks are the camps marked upon my
drawing Exhibit c. hereunto attached,
as the sixth and eighth camps when we
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"W-hen we were in the saddle near the
point where I was photographed | MADE
a drawing of what l named GLACIER
Point At the same time and point made
drawing of Mount Mckinley as 1 could
see the top Of Mount Mckinley off to the
northwest and l should say, at least
twenty miles away. This drawing OF
Glacier Point and Mount Mckinley shown
in my diary, on the fourth and fifth pages
Of the sketches therein and represents
the ground. DR.. Cook stood by my side
when I was making these sketches, using
his instruments for the purpose of taking
temperature, elevations and the like. We
remained on the saddle after I was pho
tographed on the point for about one half
hour. during which I sketched as above
stated, and the doctor used his 1nstru-
ments.
Looked Like Real Top.
s'W7len I came down from the point and
handed the doctor the flag in addition to
what I stated above. he made several
other remarks and there was more or less
talking done which I do not now recall;
but whether at that place or thereafter
between the 10Th and 18th of the month
when my diary was doctored to fit the
conditions that this point was the top,
he stated to me as follows: THAT point
would make good top for Mount Nc
Kinley. 1t looks just about like the gun
sight peak would on Mount Mckinley.
which we had been looking at from the
saddle.
''In about half an hour after the pic
ture was taken we fixed UP our packs
and at about 1920 or II o'clock Septem-
her IS we started down and arrived on
the place designated in Exhibit O as slxtf
camp, the doctor saying that he wanted
to go around there In order to get farther
up on the main glacier. so as to get a
good view of the northeast ridge leading
up to the summit Of Mount Mckinley, SO
as to ascertain II that ridge was connect
ed solid with the top Of the mountain. so
that it would have an appearance similar
to the description that he would have to
give in his writings: as the doctor had
seen the mountain from all sides except
ing this side and as this was the side
where he proposed to claim that he had
climbed 1t, he wished to know the nature
Of the ridge leading up to the top of the
mountain so that he could write about 1t
as It appeared. In doing this We put In
the balance Of the 18th and all of the 14th
and 10Th days of September, and at the
eighth camp. September Is, DIR. Cook made
his observations Of the ridge. We then
turned back from this camp for the rea-
son that we had both fallen through
crevasses, as correctly stated in the diary.
and we considered it too dangerous to
proceed further without snow shoes, as
the doctor had obtained good view of
the ridge, which was what he wanted.
With Cook Every Day.
"I was with DR.: Cook continuously
every day during the time which he was
trying to ascend the mountain in. the
year 1906, and the nearest point to the
summit of Mount Mckinley which we
reached was at least fourteen miles dis
tant from the summit of that mountain.
and at no time did we reach an. elevation
In excess of 10000 feet, and the doctor
told me when we were at the place where
my picture was taken that we were not
over 5000 feet high I neglected to state
that on the 10Th Of September. and on the
evening Of September 8. DR.. Cook asked
me IL l was willing to stay with him. !
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