The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-10-15


~As shown by my diary. we took to
the ice on September 9. From and In
GLIDING the ninth, down to and inciud
Ing the 18th of September. all writings
In my diary are by me, but were ma ie
under the direction OF DIR. Cook. ]
also changed the dates during this
time under his direction. The figures
10000 on the date of September 18th
were changed by me at the dictatior
of Dr. Cook. On September ~ DR.
Cook directed me to stop keeping my
diary and leave the pages therein
blank. 1 cannot now remember the
exact date or figures which / had In
my diary. before 1 was so directed to
change them. but know the elevation
under what now appears September Il
was not to exceed 5000 and 1 think
1t was 5000
Return to Launch.
We quilt any further attempt toward
ascending the mountain upon Septem-
Der Is and returned to the boat, a
gosoline launch named Boelshey, which
lay in the water at the foot of the
glacier. We reached the launch on
september 10, having Travelled twenty
six miles or more on the top of the
glacier from the place we quit climb
ing on September Is.
"On September 16, when at our first
camp returning from the glacier, /
doctored and changed the entries
therein from and including September
D. down to and including September
H. These changes were made under
the orders OF DR.. Cook From the 18th
to the 18th, was written at the first
camp returning on the night of the
18th. and from the 10th to and includ-
ing the 18th, was written in our last
camp returning on the evening of the
18th, and written soley under the die
tatfon of DR. Cook. and just as he said.
From and including September 18th.
down to the end OF the diary ON
November 9th, the entries therein are
my own. They cover the actual facts
and were not dictated to me by anv,
one.
Or. Cook first told me to stop NV
diary on September 18th. when we
were in our fifth camp going up the
glacier. and tor near the point which
DR.. Cook claimed as the top of Mount
Mckinley. This point was within
sight of US at the time. DIR. Cook stat
ed at this time and place that the same
conditions existed there as did exist on
the top Of Mount Mckinley and direct
ed me to stop my diary until further or.
ders. 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 photograph of the
point with me standing on the ton
thereof, with the American flag in my
hand. The photograph to which 1 re-
fer is shown opposite page 227 of the
Doctors book. entitled To the Top of
the Continent before 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 recollections of this are as fol-
lows: DR.. Cook and I went to the top
of this point together. and he said. we
will go back down and get picture of
this. We did not take our bags with
us to the top of the point, having with
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 American
flag out 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 1 did.
Takes Picture of "Summit.n
1.-THE doctor then with his camera,
took the picture shown opposite page
227. which picture is there designated
as The Summit of Mount Mckinley In
his work. To the Top of the CONT
nent.' The truth being that the sum-
init of Mount Mckinley was over TWEEN
ty miles, distant in an airline from
the point where my picture was so tax
en-. according to the scale on DR.. Cook
map shown between pages 152 and 15s
in the book referred to above. 1 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 I refer
are sketched by me in my diary and are
marked 1 to inclusive, and are shown
in said diary on the page just preceding
the date appearing therein as Septem-