Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-04-15
ALASKAN EXPEDITION REACHES
SUMMIT OF TALLEST PEAK IN
NORTH AMERICA APRIL 8.
TAKES ONE MONTH FOR CLIMB.
Explorers Garry Brooklyn Doctors Maps
and Data, None Of Which Was
Verified.
LOCATE PATH IN VAST ICE FIELD

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 12.-
The Fairbanks expedition to Mount Nc
Kinley, the tallest peak in North Amer
lea. reached the summit April 3, after
a climb of one month from the base, 1T
was announced today. No traces of
Dr. Frederick A. Cooks alleged ascent
were found
All Reach Summit.
Thomas Lloyd, leader of the expedi-
ton, arrived here Monday night. HIS
companions were Daniel Patterson, w.
K. Taylor and Charles McGOnnlgle, eX-
perienced mOuntaineers, and all reached
the top of the great mountain.
The expedition, which left Fairbanks
December 10, while the controversy over
DR.. Cooks disputed ascent was still
raging, was financed by August Peter
son and William McPhee of this city.
The plan was to go into camp on the
mountain as high as possible and prob
ably about the middle of May make
dash for the summit.
The obstacles encountered were not 50
great as had been predicted. -Four camps
were established during the ascent and
a trail was blaZed all the way to the
crest. Up to 10000 feet the climbing did
not present unusual difficulties. For the
next 1000 feet the way led over a steep
LII OAN
further progress, out througD which upon
exploration it was found possible to To-
cate a path. The final dash to the top
was made FROM the 16,O0O-foot camp
Mount Mckinley terminates in TWIN
peaks Of equal height, one somewhat
FOUNDER and covered with snow, the Othe.
composed of bare and wind swept rocks
On the rock peak the Fairbanks climbers
placed an American flag in monument
Of stones.
Carried Cooks Maps.
The expedition which was provided
with DR.. Cook maps and data, endeaV
ored to follow his supposed route, but
utterly failed to verify any part of his
story OF an ascent
Word received from the party al
Seattle on April said that the climbers
had reached an elevation of $4,000 feet
without great difficulty. At that point
they were confronted by an almost per-
pendcular wall of ice that stretched
more than 1000 feet to the summit The
men stated, however, that they had
found a gap in the ice wall and believed
that they would be able to reach the
top.
The expedition was equipped with a
dog team and supplies, and with the
latter they established a base at the foot
of the mountain. They planned to make
the dash for the summit at the break of
winter in March. The members of the
party agreed to forfeit $4,000 if none Of
them reached the summit. One of their
objects was to verify or disprove to their
own satisfaction the claim of DR.. Fred
erick A Cook that he reached the sum
NIT in the fall of 1906.
DR.. Cook claimed to have assembled
Mount Mckinley and to have reached
the summit Oh September 16. He said
that he had left at the top of the
mountain proofs that he had been there
Prof. Parker of Columbia university
was a member of the expedition that DR..
Cook led to the mountain and he later
disputed Cooks assertion that he reached
the summit after the professor and 9TH
err companions had turned back. Re
Gently Prof. Parker organized an eX-
petition to make the ascent of the noun
tain and it was planned that this party
should leave New York about April
% next. They intended to go to Seattle
and thence by steamship to Cook inlet,
on the Alaskan coast. From that point
they planned to travel by mOtorboat to
the Chulnita glacier where Il permanent
base would be established
Mt. Mckinley is the assumed culmina-
ton of the point of the North American
continent and is the Alaskan range, lati-
tude IS degrees, 4 minutes north Iongi-
tude, 151 degrees west. Its height is
given as 20,464 feet. 1t is extensively
glaciated and has always been regarded
as most difficult of ascent.