The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-07-29
RUSK PARTY FAILED /
ASCENT Of Mt. M'K|NLEY.
Chelan Man Not Successful in Leading Fasteners Up
Mount McKinley-Arrived Within Ten Miles OF the
Summit Failed to Find Flag Alleged to Be Planted
by Lloyd Party Last Winter-Believe This Hoax.

The Portland Oregonian-New York
Herald Mount Mckinley expedition,
headed by c. E. Rusk, of Chelan,
which sailed from Seattle on the
revenue cutter Tahoma April cath,
and which followed DR.. Cooks route
up the Susitna and Chulitna rivers,
failed to reach the summit of Mount
Mckinley and is now on the way TO
Seward The climbers assembled the
peak alleged by Dr. Cook to be the
summit, but it is ten miles from the
topmost point of the mountain. The
Rusk party were unable to see the
flag which the Thomas Lloyd party
is alleged to have planted on the
summit last April, and are disin-
clined to believe the story told by
the Fairbanks expedition. The party
headed by Prof Herschel Parker, OF
New York, and Belmore Brown, of
Tacoma, is still cndeavoring to as
cend the mountains. This news was
brought to Seward by w. McDougall.
president of the Cache Creek Mining
company, who met the Rusk party
a few days ago at Susitna Station.
Curtis Discounts Doubt Of Lloyd.
Il still believe that Lloyd reached
the summit of Mount Mckinley,
said Asahel Curtis, mountain climb
er of Seattle, when told of the skep-
tic views of the Rusk party. 1T is
not to be wondered at that Rusk
didn't get up at this season OF the
year. Rusk has no superior as
mountaineer, and if he couldn't get
up, no one can"
Mr.. Curtis warmly upholds the
views of Mr.. Lloyd, the wealthy
Fairbanks man, who, with his party.
claims to have conquered the tall
peak last April. Lloyd AYERS that
any expert mountaineer can climb
Mount Mckinley over the Lloyd trail
in the spring, when the great gia-
ciers are bridged with hardened
snow.
The season is so short for sum-
mer work. said Mr.. Curtis, that
you have only one try over one route.
If you find that it is unsuccessful,
YOU have to abandon the attempt un-
til the following season. In the win
ter you can cross over crevasses
filled with snow in a few minutes,
where in the summer time you might
spend a whole day going around
them, if it were possible even to do
So"
No Word from Belmore Brown.
The party headed by Belmore
Brown, of Tacoma, and Prof. Her.
schel Parker, of New York, which is
still endeavoring to reach the sum-
nit of Mount Mckinley, has not
been heard from for so long that
friends are beginning to worry about
them. Brown is the only experien-
ced mountaineer in the party famil-
lar with the ground, Parker knows
nothing of mountain climbing while
the Swiss guides with the party are
strangers to Alaskan conditions.
Dash in Spring. Ingraham's Advice.
Mai. E. S. Ingraham, of Seattle,
who climbed Mount st. Elias with
the Duke of the Abruzzi, is another
who takes a view that comedies with
that of the Lloyd party, so fas as
the season is concerned. The major
asserts that the best plan to climb
the mountain would be to establish
a camp at it's base in the autumn
and to make a dash for the summit
in the spring, while the snow in the
crevasses is hard and compact. The
Lloyd party gave it as their opinion
that the mountain could not be as
cended from the Cook inlet side at
any time of the year.
Rusk Chelan Man.
The head of this party is c. E.
Rusk, a Chelan attorney, who has
gained considerable notoriety as
mountain climber. A. L. Cool, OF
chelan. is also a member of the
party.