Show EXPLORERS REACH HIGHEST POINT OF NORTH AMERICA missionary and three companies reported to have climbed to summit of mount mckinley seattle wash archdeacon on lucon luchon stuck the episcopal mis slona siona who set out from Fal rbana ans alasau several months ago to climb mount mckinley reached the summit ot of the highest peak of the great mountain june 7 according to a private cable dispatch received hero here June 20 90 the message which was sent b by y archdeacon stuck from fairbanks said expedition successful accomplished first complete com pieto ascent ot of mount mckinley june 7 11 II 11 P carstons Kara Kars tons H R G tatum T adum walter harper and I 1 reached top of south the highest of all peak on a cle clear a r day when n lt it was possible t to 0 read all tho the angles of the mountains pi prominent eminent points and make certain that the peak we had bad conquered was the highest highes t of all we successfully carried a mercurial barometer to the top and made complete readings and observations which with simultaneous reading at gibbon should permit a close approximation of the true altitude when I 1 proper corrections are applied water j boiled 1749 degrees the present estimate of the summits height Is upward of feet we were able to read rea angles dangles on all prominent points with field glasses wo we clearly saw the flagpole 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 nag liag on the upper basin erected a six foot cross and said eaid te deum on oil the highest point of north america Amerl ca the northeast ridge Is the only possible approach to the summit duo due to the violent earthquakes earthquake of last july the higher ridges were terribly shattered and this added largely to tho the danger difficulty and labor of the ascent we spent three weeks in coutin continuous bad weather howing hewing a passage three miles long through this side this was the chief cause of delay as we made rapid progress at all other 3 stages of the journey our ney the chief credit for our success Is due to carstons Kars tons good judgment resourcefulness and caution we hid did not have a single mishap |