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

by Hudson Stuck

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ISBN-13:	9789355891556
Publisher:	Alpha Edition
Publication date:	03/16/2022
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.29(d)

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CHAPTER III THE NORTHEAST RIDGE SOME of the photographs we succeeded in getting will show better than any words the character of the ridge we had to climb to the upper basin by. The lowest point of the ridge was that nearest our camp. To reach its crest at that point, some three hundred feet above the glacier, was comparatively easy, but when it was reached there stretched ahead of us miles and miles of ice-blocks heaved in confusion, resting at insecure angles, poised, some on their points, some on their edges, rising in this chaotic way some 3,000 feet. Here one would have to hew steps up and over a pinnacle, there one must descend again and ijutj-ptmiLa- great l?b. ;Our wisest course was to seek to reach, the :c jest'of the ridge much further 'along, .'b6ypnd as. much of this ice chaos as possible. "Biit'.ft.'vCs'" f.h"fe"e days before we could find a way of approach to the crest that did not take us under overhanging icebergs that threatened continually to fall upon our heads, as the overhanging hill threatened Christian inthe "Pilgrim's Progress." At last we took straight up a steep gully, half of it snow slope, the upper half ice-incrusted rock, and hewed steps all the five hundred feet to the top. Here we were about half a mile beyond the point at which we first attained the crest, with that half mile of ice- blocks cut out, but beyond us the prospect loomed just as difficult and as dangerous. We could cut out no more of the ridge; we had tried place after place and could reach it safely at no point further along. The snow slopes broke off with the same sharp cleavage the whole ridge displayed two thousand five hundred feet above; there was no other approach. So our tasklay plain and onerous, enormously more dangerous and laborious than that which our predecessors...