Outing . THE WORLD OF SPORT Climbing One would think offhandMt. that it was a perfectly simple McKinley matter t0 determine when amountain had been climbed. In ourinnocence and ignorance we had sup-posed that this was the case. Nowarises an apparent confusion over theclimbing of Mt. McKinley. This featwas accomplished over a year ago byProf. H. C. Parker and Mr. BelmoreBrowne. To be exact, their partyreached the summit, of the mountain onJuly 1st, as described by Mr. Browne inthis magazine in April of the presentyear. In the same issue Mr. Browne ex-plains how the misapprehension has arisenas
Outing . THE WORLD OF SPORT Climbing One would think offhandMt. that it was a perfectly simple McKinley matter t0 determine when amountain had been climbed. In ourinnocence and ignorance we had sup-posed that this was the case. Nowarises an apparent confusion over theclimbing of Mt. McKinley. This featwas accomplished over a year ago byProf. H. C. Parker and Mr. BelmoreBrowne. To be exact, their partyreached the summit, of the mountain onJuly 1st, as described by Mr. Browne inthis magazine in April of the presentyear. In the same issue Mr. Browne ex-plains how the misapprehension has arisenas to the reaching of the summit. Thesummit of Mt. McKinley is not apeak in the ordinary sense, but arounded dome. The Browne-Parkerparty reached this dome in the midst ofa howling blizzard. Had the weatherbeen fair the problem of determining theexact highest point on this dome wouldhave been as simple as walking acrossthe street. As it was, the weather wasso cold and the climbers so exhaustedthat they pause
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