The sun., 1910-10-08
DIDN'T CLIMB MT. M'KINLEY
so PROF. PARKER SAYS o.
THE LLOYD PARTI.
In . spee~h to the ExplOrers Cub tho
CsIuusbIa Man says Tte Got Nearer
the summit Than Any OWe Eise-Is
Ready GO Provo Geek Vas wrong.

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the summit Than Any OWe Else-Is
Ready 60 Provo Geek Was wrong.
Prof Herschel @. Parker. formerly
OF Columbia University. who returned
on Thursday from his unsuccessful at
tempt TO climb Mount Mckinley. made
his first public statement OF the results
Of his trip before the Explorers Club. at
- West Thirty ninth street. last night.
He denounced from the platform the so
called Lloyd party which professed Co
have climbed Mount Mckinley IN April
last
Prof. Parker said that he had been
closer TO tn. summit than any previous
explorer and that from the observations
which he was enabled TO make there the
was manifes,ly fabrication. Prof
Parker traversed the entire route DIR
Frederick A. Cook once claimed TO have
covered and he told the members Of the
Explorers Club very frankly that DR..
Cook did not have anything on the Lloyd
PARTY When II came to fiction.
The Columbia professor claims two
worlds records IA the result Of hIs adj
ventures Ons OF them was the feat
Of staying hrv DAYS on the Chulitna
glacier supported only by the provisions
which he and his party could carry in
On their hacks The second record
was that Of having climbed To the highest
poInt Of the now famous mountain. HE
INST r'Inents registered - height Of iO.3DO
feet Even al that height Prof. Parker
-ald 4 that he was seven miles from the I'M
conquered summit
In his expedition DR.. Cook said that
he reached TO- 80 feet. hut Prof Parker
explained to the Explorers club last
night that after Dr Cooks return q care
fnl examination OF his inst rlIments showed
that they registered .Ooo feet out Of the
way. Furthermore Prof Parker and
his party contrived to stand on the very
peak which In his book Or. Cook labelled
The top of the continent This peak
was relatively 90 small and 90 far away
from the real summit the Columbia
professor explained. that his party had
great difficulty even in finding it
The Parker party took special pains
to follow a. far - DR.. Cook = own pub |
lished trail allowed them the path which |
the BuahWick explorer had taken. Prof
Parker IL ready TO exhibit a series of
photographs Identical in every part ocular
with those appearing In DIR. Cooks hook
and all m0Tking the path. as Prof Parker
pnts Il. 10 DR., Cooks glorious failure.
The Parker party made four separate
aatesDpts 10 scale the mountain from tho
SOutheVa and EASTERN sides; each time they
were driven back For days they were in
great peril on the main flank Of the noun
tain itself because OF the avalAnches of
iCe which descended almost moment arily
from the perpetua ice cap on top of the
mountain. The mountain l. absolutely
unscalable from this side. 80 Prof Parker
said last night
A. 10 the pretensions of the Lloyd
parry, Prof Parker called the attenti ion
of the explorers 10 he fact that ent husIasfs
IN support Of the Fairbanks expeShf Iou |
had said that they could see the American
faR which Lloyd had planted AZ the top !
II the mountain. although Fairbanks |
was 100 miles away from the summit |
Prof Parker said that from dsi ancs. |
- seven miles. his nearest approach - |
the summit even with the most powerful |
glasses he could detect no sign Of flag !
or haRpule
The south summit of Mount Mckinley.
where this Hypothetical flag was sup
posed once to have rown. is nothing but /
a solid sheet u centuries old ice. the
Columbia explorer SAID.
He made the ann oun cement that h@fnr-
leaving Alaska he and Belmor. Brown.
his compan ion. had mad" arran ~ msnts
for dog sledg-s and that next January
they purpose to attempt the Ascent II
the mountain Aga,n. this tame from th.
north side