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Show IlWuGOS ' CR01EDJTH GLORY Ml. Timpanogos, tho highest peak ot the Wasatch rnnge, constantly bo-fore bo-fore us, and towering 11,957 feet above sea level, has nn everlasting growing throng of devotee's. On summer days bllthsomc companies mftko arduous pilgrimage up Its verdant and flowering flow-ering steeps to tho glacial snows of Its summit. Do wis appreciate this most wonderful won-derful peak, bo very near to us and of which we havo advontngo? For tho myriad years that measure Its cxlstnnce, tho glnclcr of Timpanogos Timpan-ogos has been fortirfed each winter against tho vertical rays of tho summer sum-mer sun. Each spring sees It full nnd wlilte nnd smooth ns tho face of a youth. Rich autumn Its countcn-nnco countcn-nnco Is lean and lined nnd shrunken like that of nn old man, whllo at Us feet Emerald lnko attests tho life drain that the sun has exacted. Until February 19, 1910, a year ot exceptionally snowfall, It is doubtful I' human foot had over trod tho top nf Timpanogos In winter. Dr, Dean R. Brlmhnll, now residing nt 1370 Butler nvenue nnd Dr. I.cGrnndo Hardy of tho Now York City hospital, both thon residents ot Provo, climbed It on that date, after making several preliminary prelimin-ary rcconnoltcrlng trips In January of tho samo year. It was again climbed Feb. 10, 1917 by Dr. Hardy, then a student of tho medical med-ical school of tho U ot U. and Louis Brandley, a student of tho B. Y. U. Dr. Brlmhnll was nt that tlmo a student stu-dent in Columbia university. Tho third and latest nsccnt was made on Feb1. 12, 1921 by Dr. Brim-hall, Brim-hall, Joseph Nelson, Hlltton Stewart and Lynn Wakenfleld. Whllo the ascent of the Mountain In summer time, tho strenuous, Is not dangerous, except for tho last stretch over tho face of the glacier and along the "Cavcway ot tho Gods" Ito th'o highest peak, it is an undcrtnk-Ing undcrtnk-Ing of never absent peril In, winter, t |