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Show Estes Park Peak Is Scaled Estes Tark Colo. James W. Alexander, Alex-ander, professor of mathematics at Princeton university, Friday has the distinction of being the first man to scale the sheer precipice that rises 2,200 feet on the east side of Long's peak. The actual climbing time of the dangerous ascent was given as three hours end 20 minutes. (Professor Alexander was forced to cut many steps in the "great ice glacier at the foot of the precipice in order to secure se-cure a footing and he negotiated the last several hundred feet of the perilous trip by constantly clinging to small projections of rock. Profes-sore Profes-sore Alexander returned from the sum mit over the regular trial. |