The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley)

The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley)
A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America

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The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) by Hudson Stuck

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1914

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The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley)
A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America

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ens and his partner organized and maintained a private mail service of their own. He had freighted with dogs from the Yukon to the Iditarod, had run motor-boats on the Yukon and the Tanana. For more than a year he had been guide to Mr. Charles Sheldon, the well-known naturalist and hunter, in the region around the foot-hills of Denali. With the full vigor of maturity, with all this accumulated experience and the resourcefulness and self-reliance which such experience brings, he had yet an almost juvenile keenness for further adventure which made him admirably suited to this undertaking.

Mr. Robert G. Tatum of Tennessee, just twenty-one years old, a postulant for holy orders, stationed at the mission at Nenana, had been employed all the winter in a determined attempt to get supplies freighted over the ice, by natives and their dog teams, to two women missionaries, a nurse and a teacher, at the Tanana Crossing. The steamboat had cached the supplies at a point about one hundred miles below the mission the

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