Mountaineering history of the early climbs of Mount McKinley, highest mountain in Morth America.
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best denali book ever written,
By rojo (fairbanks alaska) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mount McKinley: The Pioneer Climbs (Paperback)
From the first sightings by Russian and British explorers from Cook Inlet, through the first attempts, and finally, success, Dr. Moore, past president of the University of Alaska detailed the history of discovering and climbing America's highest mountain. I simply couldn't put it down. You won't believe the interview with Billy Taylor, one of the sourdoughs who mushed from Fairbanks in 1910 and climbed to the top with a thermos of coffee and a sack of donuts, and erected a 14' spruce pole on the north peak. Then they simply hung out for the summer and mined for gold near the base. True or false? You'll have to find out for yourself.
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FOR a century and a half after the first Europeans reached Alaska, the highest peak in North America, rising more than 20,000 feet into the sky and clearly visible from salt water, continued to elude geographers and mapmakers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fake peak, polar controversy, climbing attempt, summit photograph, high basin, north peak, south peak, main glacier, northeast ridge, first ascent, true summit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Muldrow Glacier, North Pole, Professor Parker, Tom Lloyd, Belmore Browne, Explorers Club, Cook Inlet, Ruth Glacier, Charles Sheldon, Cooks Inlet, Hudson Stuck, Mount Foraker, United States, Billy Taylor, Geological Survey, Grand Basin, Pete Anderson, Peters Glacier, Harry Karstens, North America, Robert Dunn, Tanana River, American Alpine Club, National Park New!
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FOR a century and a half after the first Europeans reached Alaska, the highest peak in North America, rising more than 20,000 feet into the sky and clearly visible from salt water, continued to elude geographers and mapmakers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fake peak, polar controversy, climbing attempt, summit photograph, high basin, north peak, south peak, main glacier, northeast ridge, first ascent, true summit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Muldrow Glacier, North Pole, Professor Parker, Tom Lloyd, Belmore Browne, Explorers Club, Cook Inlet, Ruth Glacier, Charles Sheldon, Cooks Inlet, Hudson Stuck, Mount Foraker, United States, Billy Taylor, Geological Survey, Grand Basin, Pete Anderson, Peters Glacier, Harry Karstens, North America, Robert Dunn, Tanana River, American Alpine Club, National Park New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- To the Top of the Continent by Frederick A. Cook on 8 pages
- The American Alpine Journal, 2005: The World's Most Significant Climbs, Vol. 47, Issue 79 by John Harlin III on 4 pages
- The Ascent of Denali: A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America (Mount Mckinley : a Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America) by Hudson Stuck on 4 pages
- My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Wilderness of Denali by Charles Sheldon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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