Seward daily gateway., 1925-05-19
Mount Logan Expedition | Left Cordova Tuesday
(Cordova Daily Times)

commercial towns and set their faces toward the sunrise, prepared to pene- trate one of the north's great never never lands. They are the members of Captain A. H. MacCarthy's Mount Logan expedition, who arrived here yesterday on the Alaska. In addition to the leader, the group included H. F. Lambart, of Ottawa, deputy lead CT and former member of the Alaska boundary commission; Lieutenant Colonel w. w. Foster, of Vancouver, B. C., who with Captain MacCarthy made the first ascent of Mount Rob- son in 1913; Alan Carpe, of New York; Norman H. Read, of Manches- ter; Henry Hall, jr., of Boston; Rob- ert H. Morgan of Boston and Ham ilton J. Laing, of the Department of considerable note, who spent last summer studying bi1d life on Prince William Sound.
 The party will leave Mccarthy, their destination, today, on the morn ing of May 12, and after their pack train returns from Hubrick's camp all means of communication with the outside world will have been cut off.
 All of the supplies for the expedi- tion have been taken in, except pho- tographic and survey instruments, which the explorers brought with them yesterday.
 It is almost impossible tc esti- mate the length of time the expedi- 1 :;on will be out, as it is hoped to do some exploring in the 10000 scuare miles of unknown country which has never been mapped be- yond Mount Logan. The peak is rhe highest in Canada and tha ,nly important one yet unscaled. Captain Mac Carthy has been nearer it than any other person, having reached 2 poiat about 25 miles from the sum nil. 5 or 20 miles closer than Q o:htr explorers.
 Alter 70 days of ceaseiess tojl Caprain MacCarthy about |. week ago con pleted taking in food and other equipment, with the aid of his pack CTS, Andrew Taylor, Miles Atchison and Henry Olsen. They uset. three dog teams of seven dogs each, while A. r.. Trim and William Myers went along with six horses and two boE sleds. They transported, in all, 17,0O( pounds of supplies and dunnase placed in caches along the trail Just after the start they encountered extreme cold weather and deer snow, which necessitated relaying al the supplies. The teamsters wen distance of 490 miles and ther were forced to return and leave the remaining distance to be covered by the four men and three dog teams. Working over broken and unbe lievably difficult ground, these foul men relayed the supplies for 95( miles to- the advance base camp foul miles below the head of Ogilvie Gla cier, from which point the final dasf for Mount Logan will be made.
 Six main caches were made CT route, in addition to supplies being laid out at points where Captain MacCarthy estimated the expedition would end each days hike. No dogs or horses will be used by the mer in covering the ground; they vii walk from the time they leave Nc Carthy.
 Both the Canadian and United State governments are interested Il the sealing of the peak, which E second only to Mount Mckinley il T North America. It is located ln th' southeast corner of the Yukon terri tory 26 miles from the north end Q Mount St. Elias and 20 miles iron the Alaskan boundary. It is abou 70 miles from Yakatat bay and + altitude, determined by photograph survey, is 1850 feet. The sunni stands almost 14,OOO feet above tn level of the surrounding glaciers.
 The ascent will be attempted unde the auspices of the Alpine Club o Canada, in cooperation with tn d American and English Alpine Clubs each of which have a representativ
 with the expedition. According | the route laid out by Captain Mac Carthy, the party will go from Me Carthy up the Chitina River 50 mile
 to the Chitina glacier, thence acros
 the Chitina glacier and the Wals
 glacier, up Logan Glacier and abou 40 miles to the north-centfal side 0 the mountain. The final ascent Q Logan involves traverss of nearl 12 miles at an elevation of 1o,O0