The Cordova daily times., 1916-08-24
HERO REWARDED WITH HAND 1T
 HEROINE

1OTk NoTlu Ol August CoHtdins tHe following interesting account of mountain climbing marathon race, the hero and intrepid lady both being we'll known in Cordova:
 Married in Mccarthy, Alaska, July 8, and will permanently reside there" |" is really much more romantic than 1t sounds. The place is in the midst of Alaska's mighty play grounds of the gods" beneath the shadow of tower ing Mount Blackburn, whither more adventurers have gone than ever have returned Mccarthy is a mining town five miles from the terminus of the Copper River railway at Kennecott, the site of the now famous Bonanza copper mine.
 The ascent of Mount Blackburn was accomplished under conditions unlike and far more arduous than of the AL pine Matterhorn and Mont Blanc, which Miss Keen had previously put to her credit It took nearly a month to conquer the Alaskan peak. It re- quired six days to raise a ton of out fit $500 feet, in traversing thirty-one miles. Then they were only at the foot of Mount Blackburn, and there was nothing but treacherous snow to camp on. When after twenty-seven days the summit was reached by Miss Keen and Mr. Handy alone, they had the satisfaction of knowing that their expedition was the first to succeed on the avalanches southeast side Of the mountain, and the only import ant Alaska ascent fin which woman had taken part.
 It was May day, back in 1912 High up on the dizzy slopes of Mount Black burn, that most inaccessible of all Alaskan peaks. three living things, man, woman and a dog, were strug- gling upward through the awful soli- tude In all that vast white silent landscape. where for half a hundred miles there is only crag piled on crag and pinnacle on rocky pinnacle, and everywhere the eternal ice and snow, they were the only things that moved.
 Suddenly the dog whimpered and shrank close to the rough wall of the precipice whose base they skirted. With an intuition quick as the brute's the man shot out a hand and grasped the woman. There was a thin hiss in the air, rising spume of snow, and Tn an instant the spot where the wom- ans feet had been planted was empty air.
 The man had saved her from a snowslide.
 Right there and then, 1t may be. was born the romance this story chronicles.
 Love Among the AvaIanehes.
 If romance, to your mind. is a mat ter of youth and kittenish charm, of physical attractiveness and feminine wiles, then read no further For this Is q strenuous, grown-up romance. The heroine of it admits that she Is 45 years old The hero is a few years older still. And there is no ballroom scene in their story, no subtle frag- rances and no soft, sweet music. Their love meeting took place in the wilder ness. within sound of rending ice and crashing avalanches. amid the snow drifts, with death close at hand. And they had come from the ends of the earth to stand there together.
 Miss Dora Keen is Philadelphian and when she climbed Mount Black burn four years ago and reached its summit 16,14O feet above sea level, one man reached it with her. The two had been climbing for a month. There had been six other men with them, but five had dropped out through loss of nerve and the sixth fell from exhaustion 500 feet short of his goal.
 The man who lasted through was George w. Handy, and now. four years later. he and Dora Keen have become husband and wife.
 Brisk Life for a PhiIadeIphIan.
 Philadelphia had never coupled Miss Keen with romance. Daughter of pr. W. w. Keen, the eminent surgeon and rich in her own right, she had never taken much part in the usual activities of her social set Where others went to the seaside to dress and dance she preferred an expedition to the Alps horseback trip across Paraguay, or hunting trip in the wilds of Africa Who're others filled their winters with