Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-10
PARKER ON COOKS
MT M'K|N.L+.E|Y TRIP.
Columbia Professor Says His
Photographs Prove Doctor
Never Reached Top.
.RARRlLL is coRRoBoRATED
Did Not Say LLOYD Never Assembled
Mckinley to Top but That lie
Saw No Flag Pole.

New York, Nov. 1o.-Prof. He,schql
Parker OF Columbia university. who
recently returned from his exploration
OF Mount Mckinley. today made public
a series of photographs taken near the
Alaskan mountain which he claims is
indisputablc evidence that DR.. Frcdcr-
lex u Cook, the Brooklyn traveller.
never reached the top of the highest
peak in America
Prof. Parker states that lie found
the mountain peak which DR.. Cook
photographed and called Mount Nc
Kinley. the top OF the continent" and
In support of his statement, showed q
photograph of Il mountain peak taken
by his expedition last summer and
pointed out that a comparison Of the
two photographs shows in detail iden-
teal outlines of rock formation proving
that they are pictures of the same
mountain.
THE mountain which ] photograph
ed said Prof. Parker, was 20 miles
away from Mount Mckinley and $4,000
A1St tbCioN ilS IlliS 10 lut
same peak that Cook photographed and
called the top of the continent.
Prof. Parker corroborates the con-
fession year ago by Edward Barrill,
guide for Dr. Cook, that they never
reached the top Of Mount Mckinley.
FOLLOWING COOKS TRAIL
I'VE left our boat on the Tokositna
at about the same spot where DR.. Cook
and RarrilI fnnk a thp ~ - ga III Prof
Parker, who was a member of Dr..
Cooks expedition in 1906. MY idea
was to follow as closely as possible the
route taken by the doctor and we had
no difficulty in doing, this with Bar
rill's map Mt hand In n few days our
party reached the spot noted on the.
map as the point where BarTill's pic
amphitheater glacier in the foothills of
Mount Mckinley, and 20 miles from
its base.
Having reached this place. the
problem that now confronted us was to
pick the rock on which Barrill stood
when he was photographed with the
flag in. his hands. This perhaps was
easier to do than one might imagine
in spite of the fact that there We're
innumerab rocky peaks on all sides
OF us. There Will be noticed in the
lower right-hand corner of DIR. Cooks
photograph a peak in the distance, the
snow formation on .the top of which
should make 1t easily distinguishable.
1t was therefore a comparatively sim
pie matter to identify the peak as the
second of the seven peaks of Ruth
glacier. only n few miles away from
where we stood. DR.. Cook has said
there are IL peaks. but he evidently
did not carry his Investigation far
enough to discover more than seven.
Then we soon found the rock wc want
ed in the snow saddle. Barrill men
toned, and Mt last we were at the top
OF the continent
You will remember that Barril
swore that the picture in Dr. Cooks
book captioned, First Five of the
Twelve New Peaks OF Ruth Glacier
was taken OF the same day that DIR.
Cook took the famous photograph of
the guide. That this statement was
true is readily noted. In another pic
ture entitled, 'Amphitheater.' the rock
itself on which Barrill stood may be
seen.
ION account of the formation of the
snow cornice, 1t was Impossible to
photograph the rock from the exact
spot where Or. Cook himself stood
These cornices are shaped according to
the whims Of the winds thai blow and
the formation varies from year to year.
snow In the photograph took. This is
due to the fact that | was there in july
while DR.. Cooks photograph was taken
in September. A considerable amount
of snow naturally would melt away in
two summer months. But you can
readily see that the photographs are of
one and the same rock. and q very
paltry rock II is at that. duplicated
number of other photographs i'll DR..
Cooks book at totally different points
from where the doctor says that they
We're taken and these, with q detailed
account of my expedition will be made
public at later date. But these
photocra phs are Of far less Importance
than that of the summit itself.
PUSHING FORWARD.
after getting all the material
wanted in this ncighborhood we push
ed on 90 miles further to the base Of
Mckinley and made numerous attempts
TO cross the northeast ridge of the
mountain, But the passage Was effect
uallyGcut off BY n 10000 foot range Of
ice peaks at the head of Ruth glacier.
which was impossible on account OF
the pinnacles and crcvasses, Dr. Cook
makes no mention of them IN his book.
never having been far enough to see
them. Then turning back, we went as
far rs possible on the southwest face
Of Mckinley ana after reaching an clc-
vat.on Of 10000 feet, gave up any fur
Their attempts to scale the mountain.
While regret that we We're unable 10
ne. to the ton still. wc had accom-
plished the object of my mission and
fel, satisfied with the result of the ex-
petition
: When asked what he thought of the
dispatches from Alaska in the curiy
summer saying that Tom Lloyd had
reached the top of the mountain. Prof.
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