The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-14

us TO the top of the point. having left
them down in the saddle above the
glacier. We then both went down
from the point to where our bags had
been left The doctor took the Amerl.
can flag ont of ono of the bags and
handed 1t TO me and sent me back To
the top Of the point and told me TO
hold II there on the end OF the ice
axe, which | did
The doctor then with his camera
took the picture shown opposite page
227. which picture is there designated
as the summit of Mt. Mckinley in his
work, To the Top of the Continent
The truth being that the summit of
Mount Mckinley was 20 miles distant
in air line from the point where my
picture was taken, according to the
scale on DR.. Cooks map shown be
tween pages 152 and l53 in the book
referred TO above.
~ then came down with the flag to
where Or Cook was standing with his
camera and | made the remark that
the eight peaks on the other side of
this point where ] had been photo
graphed 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 arc sketched by me in
my diary and are marked one TO eight
inclusive, and are shown I'm said diary
on page just preceding the date ap-
pearing therein as September Q and
on the pages following September 10
Inese peaks were so sketched and
numbered by me when / was In the
camps opposite TO them. | could have
fine view of them. The camps wnere
] so sketched are camps marked on
my drawings Exhibit c." hereunto
attached as the sixth and eighth
camps when we were going up the
glacier
When We were I'm the saddle near
the point where ] was PHOTOGRAPHED
made a drawing of what I named
Glacier Point At the same time
and point | made a drawing off TO the
northwest. and ] should say. at least
twenty miles away. This drawing Of
Glacier point and Mount Mckinley are
shown IN my diary on the fourth and
nth pages of the sketches therein,
and represent conditions as they ap-
peared to me upon the ground. DR.
Cook was by my side when I was
making these sketches, using his in.
struments for the purpose OF taking
temperature, elevation. etc We re-
NAMED in the saddle after | was pho
tographed on the point for about one
half-hour, during which | sketched as
above stated. and tne doctor used his
instruments.
When ] came down from the point
and handed the doctor the flag, I'm ad.
dltion 10 what ! have stated above. he
made other remarks, and there was
more or less talking done which do
not now recall, but whether at that
time and place or thereafter and be.
tween the 18th and 10th of the month.
when my diary was doctored 10 fit the
conditions In order 10 prove this point
was the stop, he stated to me as fol-
lows:
That point would make a good top
for Mount Mckinley. 1t looks Just
about Ike Gunsignt peak would look
on Mount Mckinley which we had
been looking at from the saddle.
In about half an hour after the pic
turc was taken We fixed up our packs
and at about 1870 or II O'Clock on
September Is VIC started down and
around on the place designated ON
Exhibit o as sixth camp. the doctor
saying he wanted TO 20 around there
In order to get further upon tne main
glacier. so as 10 get good Wow OF
the northeast ridge leading up 10 the
summit Of Mount Mckinley. so as ia
ascertain If that ridge was connected
solid with the top of the mountain. so
that II would have an appearance sim
ilar 10 the description he would hayo
TO give In his writings As the doctor
had seen the mountain from all sides.
excepting this. and as this was The
Side where he proposed 10 claim that
he had climbed It. he wished to know
the nature Of t6e ridge leading up TO
the top Of the mountain. so he could
write about II as II appeared
I'm doing this we took the balance
OF the 18th and all of the 18th and
18th days Of September. and. al the
eighth camp on September Is, Or
Cook made nls observations Of the
ridge We then turned back from this
camp for the reason that we had both
fallen through crevasses, as correctly
stated in tho diary. and we considered
IL 100 dangerous to proceed further
without snowshoes, as the doctor had
obtained a good Wow of the ridge
which was all he wanted.
81 was with Dr. Cook continuously
every day during the time he was at
tempting to ascend the mountain In