Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-07-25 | Page 2 | Blizzards Prevent Scaling of Peaks

BLIZZARDS PREVENT SCALING NG OF PEAKS Fairbanks Alaska Alasha July 24 j I sor herschel Herschol Parker of Columbia university uni and d Belmor Browne o of Tacoma Tacoma Ta- Ta coma arrived ed at on the Tanana last night and reported that th the they failed ailed to reach the summit o of Mount lount McKin- McKin 1 ley e Two attempts were made one ono on tho the north and the other on the south peak An n altitude of feet was reached on tho the south peak peale and on ore the time north peak Mount McKinley terminates In twin peaks peakE each approximately tely feet teet hl high h. h Severe blizzards about the summit summit summit sum sum- mit prevented pre the scaling a of these peaks s. s Professor Parker arker said a severe earthquake earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake was felt Celt while tho the party lU wason was sas wason on OIL the lie mountain