Show EXPLORERS REACH HIGHEST POINT OF NORTH AMERICA Missionary and Three Companies tt Re Reported ported to Have Climbed to Summit Sum Sum- mit of Mount McKinley Seattle Wash Archdeacon Archdeacon Hudson Stuck the Episcopal missionary who set out from Alaska several several sev sev- eral months ago to climb Mount McKinley Mc Mc- Kinley reached the summit of the highest peak of the great mountain June 7 according to a private cab cable e dispatch received here June 20 The message message which h was sent flent by Archdeacon Stuck from Fairbanks said Expedition successful Accomplished Accomplished first complete ascent of Mount 1 M McKinley Kinley June 7 H Hv P. P R. R G. G Tatum I Walter Harper Halper and I reached top of south the highest of all peak on a clear day when It was possible to read all the angles of the mountains mountain's I prominent prominent points and make malee certain that the pea peak we had conquered was the highest of all hil Il We successfully carried a mercurial rial barometer to the top and made complete readings and observations i which with simultaneous reading leading at Gibben should permit a close approximation I of the true altitude when proper corrections are applied Water Vater boiled 1749 degrees The present estimate es ef of the summits summit's height is Upward upward up Up- ward of feet We Ve were able abl to read angles on all aU prominent points With field glasses we clearly saw the flagpole erected erected in 1910 by the Thomas Lloyd expedition on the north peak the lower of the two main peaks After completing observations on the summit we hoisted the American flag on the upper tipper basin erected a six-foot six cross and said Te Deum on the highest point of North America The northeast ridge is the only approach t to te the summit Due to the violent earthquakes of last July the higher ridges were terribly shattered and this added largely to the danger difficulty and ani labor abor of the ascent We Ve spent sIlent three weeks in continUous continuous contin contino bad weather hewing a passage three miles long through this side I This was the chief cause of delay as we made rapid progress ress at all other stages of the journey The chief credit for Cor our success is due to Karston's good resourcefulness reo re- and caution We Ve lid IUd I not have a single mishap |