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Show FUTILITY OF SUMMER CLIMBING IS PROVED SEATTLE, Wash., July ' 2d: Thc American u'cological expedition lo Mount McKinley. generally known as thc Herchel Parker expedition, sailed ; from Seattle May 5 for Cook 's "Inlet. It was much more expensively equipped than tho Rusk expedition, but was not considered so strong, for most of its members had done no Alaska mountain climbing. Professor Parker was in charge of tho scientific part of the work and Belmore Brown, a volcran ' nioun; tainccr, directed the field movements." Professor Parker was thc iirst scientist scien-tist to challenge Dr. Cook's claim that he had reached thc north pole and previously previ-ously had been the first lo dispute Dr. Cook's assertion tfcat he had attained the top of Mount McKinley. Thc professor pro-fessor intended to take special protections protec-tions on this summer's trip to analv.e Dr, Cook's Gfoo of the ascent It is thought thc failure of the Iwo summer parties will Dead to thc organization of parties to make the ascent by thc Fairbanks Fair-banks or Lloyd trail early next spring. According lo Lloyd, thc assent in March |