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Show Explorers Declare No Mm' 2 Ascended Mount McKinley SEWARD, Alaska, July 29. Al Cool and Joseph Ridley, members of. thc Portland Oecroiiiuii-Nuw Vork Herald" I expedition, which set out in April lo ascend Mmint McKinlcy and which turned bsck unsuccessful, arrived in Seward last night, rj. E. Rusk', leader pf the pui ly, and F.1L Jlo.iro, tho plioi toTr:ipher, were delayed t Crow Creek. . eighty miles from Seward, and will arrive tomorrow. ; Cool um nuXley declined lo give a detailed statement concerning their experience ex-perience on tho great mountain, which has nevei been ascended during (ho summer months. Thc two men insist that no party has ever reached the summit sum-mit nnd say that 5000 feet of precipitous precipit-ous cliffs surround tho top. Thc as-cont as-cont will only be made, Cool and Kid-Icy Kid-Icy say. hy a large expedition with an extensive outfit and jilenty of time. Tlic Husk expedition reached the summit sum-mit of the mountain ascended by Dr. Cook and Edward Barrill and found the scaling of this peak easy enough, but ltwos ten miles distant 'from tho summit. sum-mit. Because of shortage of supplies the party was obliged to retrace its steps. Followed Cook's Eoute. Weather conditions were generally unfavorable, tho air being damp and fEy most of thc time. Thc explorers in attacking thc mountain took practically practi-cally the same route as Dr. Cook, beginning be-ginning tho ascent at a point a little northwest. They left Talkeetna. a trading trad-ing post o the Alaska Commercial company, com-pany, oti the Susetna Vivcr, tho last outfitting place, in tho latter part, or' .Mn', uscending the Chulitna river as far as possible in a small boat, then going overland on foot. The1" came out the same way. Thc American geological geo-logical expedition headed by Professor Hcrschel Parker of Columbia eunivcr-sity, eunivcr-sity, and Bclmore Brown of Tacoma, left Talkeetna a day later than the Husk party and went up the Chulitna in the power boat Explorer, built expressly express-ly for tho party, lt is creditably reported re-ported that this expedition also failed and turned back and that the members will arrive here in a few days. from the Fairbanks si do is entirely feasible. The Parker party inclinlfid Parker and Brown, Profossor J. JI. Count, of Stov-ens's Stov-ens's institute, Hoboken; 11. ,r. ller-mau ller-mau L. Tucker of Newton, Mass.; Wal-demar Wal-demar Grassi of Columbia university, and Merle Laroy, an Alaska packer. |