Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-06
VEIL OF MYSTERY
 SHROUDS ATTEMPT
 ID SCALE M K|NLEY
(By Special Correspondent MCKINLEY PARK. April 1.-Of

(By Special Correspondent
 MCKINLEY PARK, April 1.-Of the several scientific and other wise expeditions that will swarm over Mt. Mckinley National Park the coming summer, the first to
 arrive reached here on the last Coast train, in the person of MT. A. D. Lindley, who is chief of the mountain climbing quartette who will attempt to scale Bulshaia Cora (Mt. Mckinley, 26,O00 feet.
 MT. Lindley is a nice appearing and pleasant young man of some 26 summers. Halls from as far East as Minnesota, and strikes one as having a we'll balanced education above the average.
 Asked if the expedition was a Se- cret one, as told around here and Fairbanks, replied that it was not secret in any way he knew of, nor did he know of any reason why it should be secret.
 Asked a three-Way question, was this scientific expedition? Was there some other object in view? Or was he just simply out of a job?
 MT. Lindley laughingly replied by asking, Did you ever know of a mountain eli mbing expedition making any money?"
 He further said that no Scienti- fic flavor was attached to the trip, and that the only instrument that might be so-called, was a small pocket aneroid barometer he was carrying in his pocket; that it was sealed on it's face to read 20,- GOO feet of elevation more or less. That after he reach e d a point there the index damned against the pin he would just keep on.
 Asked if he had directions for finding a self-registering thermo- meter said to have been cached by the Stuck party some years ago he replied tn a he expected to to hunt for two such self-register- ing thermometers. One that is sup posed to have been left by the Stuck party at about 12,O0O feet, and anoth CT left by the Hershel G. Palmer and Belmore Br owne party some years before that, at a point said to be 19OOO feet.
 This Parker and Browne outfit, once associated in the event with Doc Cook, later packed their grub from Seward, and were practical ly out of grub by the time they reached the base of Mt. Mckinley.
 At one time, MT. Hershel G. Par ker was a professor at Columbia New York. Among those who have taken great in- terest in these mountain climbing trips was Professor James Furnam Kemp, professor of economic geo. logy at Columbia, and at the time, seemed to be his understanding that the trip ended after a little exercise around the base of the mountain.
 If MT. Lindley returns with two thermometers, it will revive a lot of interest in former trips.
 On the last boat freight MT. Lind ley received shipment of grub; items were an unusual amount of boxes marked chocolate, prunes, with 30 gallons of gasoline for heating and cooking purposes. The only condensed foods were dried eggs and milk. The need for concentrated foods will become increasingly apparent in "the last mile" or so.
 Asked if the party intended to use caribou sleeping bags on the rip up, the reply was that Explorer Byrd had pronounced that gear as he most successful of any at the South Pole. A mixture of caribou and some of the much advertised oags of Eastern make will be used.
 Former parties going up the used caribou and sheep bags exclusively, with the result hat they became damp, then wet, very uncomfortable and heavy to pack, as there are no good facili- ;ies to dry out the bag. Frequent olizzards occur after about half way to the top, when it becomes necessary to dig into the ice and ay out the storms, often of many lays duration.
 Asked if he thought the party would get away early enough to