The San Francisco call., 1909-10-25
COOK DIDN'T CLIMB
MOUNT, SAYS MINER
Jacob Suter Declares Wall of
Ice on Mckinley Makes
Ascent Impossible
McCarty Brothers of San Franz
cisco in Party That Saw
Explorer Turn Back

BELLINGHAM, Wash. Oct. "a
Jacob Suter, well known as a miner
and mountaineer in Alaska has issued
statement in which he says Dr. Cook
never reached the top of Mount Nc
Kinley and that the explorer was
forced to abandon his attempt to gain
the summit after climbing 5000 feet a
wall of ice barring his further ascent.
Sutter processes TO haze witnessed
Cooks performance through a pair .of
field glasses and says that owing TO
the nature of Mount Mckinley it never
viii be ascended-
SAW PARTY TURN BACK
Suffers statement follows:
The McCarty brothers OF san Fran
cisco. sam Nay of this city and my
self were on the mountain when Cook
and his party arrived We saw them
start up the Yetna river and they
came back because the route was too
dihicult Then they went up the
Shushitne river and got up TO the wall
Of ice on Mount Mckinley which is
many miles from the top. =
Through the glasses we saw them
turn DaEh ana come uDh h 4 nave
prospected all over the base of Mount
Mckinley and have been to the point
reached by Cook. Several others have
been that high on the mountain and
that is as high as anyone ever will
get. on account Of that wall of ever
changing ice, which cannot be scaled
even though steps were cut in its
sides.
HORSES LEFT TO sTARvE
On that trip Cook did one Of the
most lnhu1nan acts l ever saw In my
gtfe- he LETT four horses In the river
valley 10 starve 10 death They We're
safe until the winter SHOWS fell and
after that there was no chance for
them. We never saw the horses after
Cook abandoned them. If he had shot
them il would nave been mercy.
] have been on all the big mountains
CT explored Alaska. the Selkirks, the
Frazer. Cascade and Olympics and
can tell what peaks are impossible Of
ascent. Mckinley VIII never be scaled
and the top can only be reached by a
flying machine. The same applies 10
Mount Roosevelt and Mount Foraker.
both of which stand close 10 Mckinley.
Cook Names Explorer
ST. PAUL Mimi Oct. 24.-Dr. Fred
erlck A Cook who lectured here this
evening. announced that Prof L. L.
Dyche, Of the University OF Kansas
has been decided upon as one of the
members Of his forthcoming Mount
Mckinley expedition, having accepted
the offer yesterday.
Cook stated he had also decided upon
several other members of the expedi-
ton though he did not care to an
nounce their names. There wiz be
only five or six in the party, he said
Cook was entertained here today by
the officers AT Fort Smelling and by
Dr.. J. C Nelson. Danish consul at
s.. Paul, together with q large number
Of Danish Americans.
After lecturing before the students
Of Hamline university and the faculty
Of the University Of Minnesota. Or
Cook viii 90 to Missoula, Mont
and viii deliver free lectures there
and al Hamilton. Mont. in connec-
tion with the afidavits concerning
the Mount Mckinley controversy.
From Montana Cook viii go first
10 New York. where he VIII prepare
tile dSta 10 be submitted to the Uni
versity Of Copenhagen. He said that
the details Of the Mount AIcKinley
expedition would not be worked out
1t once as II could not start until
neNt spring.