The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-12-08

cier coinDlned. 1hS park Is perched on the Con-
tnental Divide and contains 81 named mountains
over 10000 feet, of which 13 are over 1900 feet.
fikes Peak 04155) hundred miles to the
south or Longs, is probably the best-known noun
tain In the world, inasnuch more than three
million people have assembled 1t by cOg-road and
automobile highway. On some days more people
stand on Its summit than ascend Longs all sum-
mer. That is part of the glory of Longs-to the
end or time man will have to climb with hand and
1901 10 gain Its summit And compared with the
King OF the Rockies" Pixies Peak Is a shapeless
bulk of rock!
Professor Alexander is sure of immortal fame
among out-of-doors people. He Is assistant pro-
fessor OF mathematics in Princeton university. He
is forty years of age, sx-footer Of 165 pounds.
Professor Alexander started alone from Chasm
Lake In the morning He surmounted the re.
mains or the ancient glacier by cutting 76 steps In
the Ice. This brought him to the foot of the preci-
pice at eleven o'clock. The dotted line shows
approximately his way up He worked to the
south, making his way up wherever he could find
breaks in the rocks and could utilize chimneys
His devious course led him under The Notch.
Many times FARTHER progress seemed impossible.
Twice he was In danger from falling rocks. And
mistake ut any stage would have meant death
He gained The Summit to the right of The Notch
at 20 p, M, wrote his name In the register and
descended by the regular trail.
The difficulty of the ascent may be Judged nv
the fact that pretty much everybody thought
Professor Alexander was romancing or had been
overcome by "altitude"-which In the Rockies
covers more sins than charity.
Professor Alexander made answer the next dav
by taking with him Jack Moomaw, the Hewes-
kirkwood ranch guide. and repeating the feat
And still the doubling Thomases were many
In the meantime news of the feat had spreod
and seven members of the Colorado Mountain club
were on hand to attempt the ascent the third dav.
Carl A. Blaurock. Dudley L. Smith, Frank Schir-
mer. Herbert Whitman, Hermann Buhl-and Mrs
Bull. They found Aexanders little cairns md
followed his route almost exactly Blaurock and
Bull headed and ended the party which used a
stout rope. The ascent took nine hours and tho
party did not reach The Summit till seve,, oc,oc,
and dusk. And the skeptcs were all converted
Two-Guides (Nesot-tayah) Is what the Aranonoas
called Longs Peak before the coming OF the white
man-from the Plains Longs and Meeker ,nnaar
double peak. Lieut.. T. NJ. Pike. U. s. A.. for
"no" [ikes feak Is named put Longs on the
map In 1906 as the Great Peak. Col s Fl Long
U. s, A., next saw 1t in 1919 and gave II his mama
William ~ Byers founder of the Rocky Moun.
tain News OF Denver. made the first attemnt 70
ascend Longs In 1854. He published a prediction
that no man would ever stand on IFS sup,n,t
-Four years later he proved himself a better moun
'aineer than prophet by leading party of seven
60 The Summit. Former judge L. w EenIpcs,
one or Shermans Runners the march "frn,,
Atlanta TO the sea- and now practcing law !,
Kansas City, Ean.-was the who found
difficult and dangerous way up to The Snmm,,
from Wild Basin ION the south) through the gorge
that runs up to The Notch. Fifty yeurs later
looking up at Lc'HTs from Tahosa Valley he said |:
Il am the last survivor OF the seven thar mad.
the first ascent OF Longs on the morning NJ An
gust q, k6S And sometimes feel as lonesome
as did the afternoon before when / chung 10 the
wall of The Notch, looking fearfuIly up vt Tho
summit Just above me and 40 less frarfllIy down
over the way had climbed fun mile below
me lay Tahosa Valley and Estes Park Somethir,
like 2,40O feet of precpice ran almost stroIah.
down TO Chasm Lake 1t was late In the after
noon. couldn't go ahead and it didn't seem nos
sihle to go back. Well, 1t was a long and tongb
,oo' was so late In getting down that the bovs