Show PARKER HnS I DOCTOR COOK ANOTHER JOLT tf tk Columbia Professor Says Physician Never Near Mt McKinley's McKinley 5 SummitT Summit T 1 HAS j JUST RETURNED FROM ALASKA TRIP Duplicated CooKs CooK's Top of Continent Picture Feet Lower s 's NEW YORK Nov 10 Prof Her Her- Parker of Columbia university who recently returned from bis his y tion of Mount McKinley today made mado public a series of photographs taken lle near r the Alaskan mountain which he claims is indisputable evidence that Dr Frederick A. A Cook tho the Brooklyn traveler trav tray eler cler never reached the top of the highest high high- est cst peak in America America Professor Parker states that ho he found y the tho mountain peak which Dr Cook photographed photographed pho pho- c y to and called Mount 1 McKinley l the tho top of the continent and in support sup port of his statement showed a photograph photo photo- ft's graph r ph of a a mountain peak taken by 2 Jl his liS s expedition last summer and pointed c a comparison of the two photographs photographs pho- pho shows in detail identical outlines out- out t lines Jines of rock formation proving that the mountain moun they arc are pictures of the same samo tain t P r f t tf Tho Tho mountain which I photographed photo photo- t y graphed said Professor Parker was wass s t twenty yent miles away from Mount nt l f Mc- Mc c- c Kinley and feet below its sum sum- mit This is the same samo peak that Cook r v photographed and called tho the top of x the th continent t. t Professor or Parker corroborates the 4 c confession on a year ago by Edward Barr Bars Bar Bar- s J r rill nil guido guide for Dr Cook that they never i. i ft- ft r reached ach d the top of Mount McKinley We V We e left our boat on tho the t at at af about the same spot where Dr Cook I find and Harrill Barrill took to the tIle i ife ie e said Pro- Pro lessor csor Parker who was a member of Dr Cooks Cook's expedition in 1906 My idea to follow was isas as closely as possible the route taken by the doctor and we had lad no o difficulty in doing this with BarI Bar- Bar I rIlls rIll's map at haD hand l. l In a few days our party reached tho the spot pot noted on tho the map as the point where Barrill's picture was taken This was in the amphitheatre amphitheatre theatre glacier in the foothills of Mount McKinley and twenty miles from its 1 base Find Where Barrill Barril Stood Ua Having ng reached this place the theS i S problem that confronted us was to pick th the rock on which Barrill when he with in his was was- photographed photo the tho flag hands This perhaps was easier to do doy y i than one might ima imagine in spite of the i fact that there were innumerable rocky peaks on all sides of u us There will bo be noticed in the lower ri right ht hand cor corner of Dr Cooks Cook's photography photograph a peak in rn tho the distance the tho snow now formation on the tho top of which should make it easily easil- distin- distin It was therefore a comparatively simple matter to identify the peak as the of the seven seven peaks r c of Ruth glacier only anly a a few miles away from where we stood Dr Cook has said there aro arc twelve peaks but he evidently evidently evidently evi evi- dently did not carry carr his investigation far enough to discover that there are only seven Then Thon we soon found the rock TOCK we wo wanted in iii the tho Snow now saddle Barrill and at last we were at the top of the continent r 7 C- C You will remember that Barrill i swore swore that the picture in Dr Cooks Cook's I Book Book- captioned First Five of the Twelve New Peaks of Ruth Glacier 1 t 4 was taken on the same day that Dr tf X 1 Cook took the tho famous photograph of the v. v i That Tha this statement was as true is T. T i- i readily noted In another picture euti- euti w tied fled Amphitheatre wA A mp the Ule rock itself ts lf on oil ont t which 1 ich Barrill Barn stood may maJ be seen y i Other Pictures Duplicated i t On account of the formation of the 1 snow cornice it was impossible to photograph photograph pho pho- the rock tho the exact spot where whore Dr Cook himself stood These cornices are arc shaped to the jr whims of the winds th that t blow and the J tY formation varies from year to year rear It K will also be noted that there is more moro snow noW in the photo photograph raph wInch which I took Thin is due clue to the fact that I was there if iu lU July Juh- July w while Dr Cooks Cook's photograph raph c was taci in September A considerable Z 1 ble amount of snow naturally would molt melt away in summer months mouths But r yon you an ean readily see sec that the photographs photographs photo photo- or graphs are arc of one and the tho same rock t sand a L very paltry rock it it itis is at that I Af duplicated a i number of other photo photo- f phs m in Dr Vr r. r Cooks Cook's book at totally different points from where the doctor they were taken and there with i. i account o of my expedition r vill- vill he IJO made public at a later date V t. t But these photo photographs arc are of far less importance c than that of the summit itself After fter getting all the thc material 1 It wanted in in this neighborhood we pushed f on twenty miles further to the base o or McKinley and aud made numerous attempts to cross cros the northeast ridge of or the mountain But the thc passa passage e was effectually effect effect- I cut off oft by br a l foot range of I ice peakS peakS' at the head o- o of Ruth fluth glacier which was impassable on account of the tin pinnacles and crevasses Dr Cook makes no mention of them in his book never ha having n been far enough to see them Then turning back wo we went as far as possible on the southwest face oi or of McKinley and after reaching an elevation elevation ele ele- ele of feet gave up any further fur fur- ther thier attempts attempt to scale the mountain While I re regret ret that we were unable to get to tho top still we had accomplished accomplished pushed tho the object of my mJ- mi mission sion and felt satisfied with the result of the tho exi ex cx A i j t Corrects Statement When asked what he thought of the tho dispatches from Alaska in in the earls carl summer saying ing that Tom Lloyd had reached the top of the tho mountain Pro Pro- fessor Parker Parler said he ho desired to correct some statements which had bad been attributed attrib co to him hint concerning the latterI latterI latterI latter I never said aid be ho declared that Tom Lloy did not reach McKinley's summit What I did du say was wa that although al a- a though our party got ot within seven seen miles of it none of us could son even with tho the strone strongest t of 5 glasses eS flagpole flag flag- pole nole Lloyd says saS he planted there ther to stay star How Ho ridiculous therefore the statement statements state state- ments ment were that the flat flag had been seen from l-IO l miles mills away away Professor Parker in in of his fail- fail tIre pro to o i hel believes that thata a wa will vilt m yet ret be found to tu scale scalo the I |