The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-24
CONQUER0RS OF DENAL| GARRY
 MARKS OF TRIP
Lindley and Strom Visit Juneau After Ascent of
 Loftiest Mountain
3S DAYS REQUIRED TO MAKE TRIP BOTH WAYS.
Descent from l7,000 Feet Made in 40 Hours
 Without Sleep

Tanned by sun and wind, lean from hard work and exposure, and frosted from sub-zero temperatures encountered at the top of North Americas highest peak, A. D. Lind ley and E. Strom, youthful con- querors of Mt. Mckinley, visited Juneau Monday afternoon for a few hours, on their way back to the States.
 Lindley, the younger of the pair, and only 26 years old, bore the fewsst marks. Three fingers on Strom's right and two on his left hand bear the dark discolorations of frosted spots, the result of a few minutes exposure on the mountains topmost height while he fought at a frozen camera.
 38 Days Required
 Lindley halls from Minneapolis. Minn., and Strom, Norwegian, resides at Lake Placid, N Y. Both have had considerable experience in winter mountain climbing, are expert skiiers, and are hardy, viz orOus men. Lindley holds a mem bership in the Alpine Club of Can ada, but their expedition was pure ly a personally affair, made on their own initiative. They were iubilan5 over their success, attl1- outing much of it to Superintend- ent Harry Lick of Mt. Mckinley National Park, and one of his rangers, Grant Pierson. And nei- ther of them just now have any .'hankering" to repeat the feat.
 Thirty-eight days were required to ascend the great pile and return to it's base. The greatest part of this period was spent in climb ing up to the 17,000 foot level From there onward it was com riaratively easy going. But the most dangerous work was the de- scent from the last camp at 17,000 feet to the foot of Muldrow Glac- fer.
 Have Narrow Escape
 Below the Il 900 foot level, on the main sheet of the glacier it. self. death snatched at the little hand several times. The death Of two members of the Carpe Cosmic Ray expedition possibly saved the lives of one or more of the four in the Lindley-Strom party. Had it not been for a rope for which they returned to camp after they had found Theodore Koven'S body, Pierson. Lick and Strcm might have gone the way Koven and clarpe did. All three of them broke through crevasses and the rope was all that saved them.
 Thirty-three days were spent by the expedition in climbing to the 17,00O foot level where the last camp was established It took 12 hours flor the round trip to the south peak, and the same time fer the north peak. It took only 40 hours to backtrack from the last camp to the bottom, but all eff the previous experiences were eclipsed in that descent.
 Leave April IA
 On April 4, the expedition got under way from the park ranger station nearest the base of Null drow gracier. It moved its sup plies and stores by dogteam over the glacier to a height of 11,0OO feet, the members of the party using skis in travelling.
 At that point, the expedition left the glacier and climbed to the backbone of Karsten ridge. He and snow covered it, and its ridge in places was almost knife-narrow. Particles of snow and ice dislodged by ones left foot would roll thou sands of feet onto the glacier, and bv the right foot into a river gorge separated from the glacier by half of the mountains bulk.
 The ridge rises 5000 feet in its little more than one mile of length. Five days were spent pack ing supplies and camp equipment up it. Almost every step had to be hewn out with axes. They spelled" one another in cutting and packing. Once or twice it was necessary to do an entire day $ work all over. As they snatched a few hours rest in their camp at the foot of the ridge, storms would fill up their chopped footholds solidly and they had to be recut. And the end of the second days cutting found them only a 100 feet or so farther advanced than the preceding day.