Show EXPLORERS REACH HIGHEST POINT OF NORTH AMERICA missionary and three Compa companies reported to have climbed to summit of mount mckinley seattle wash Archile archdeacon acon hudson stuck the episcopal missionary ft ho set out from Fair fairband bans alaska several e ral months ago to climb mount mckinley reached the summit of the highest peak of the great mountain juno june 7 according to a private cable dispatch received here june 20 the message which vas ft as sent by archdeacon stuck from fairbanks eald said expedition successful accomplished first complete ascent of mount Alc mckenley Kinley juno june 7 11 P carstons Kars tons R G tatum walter harper and I 1 reached top of south the highest of all peak on a clear day when it was ivas possible to read all the angles of the mountains prominent points and make male certain that the peak we ne had conquered was as the highest of all we successfully carried a bercu rial barometer to the top and ind made complete readings and observations which ith simultaneous reading at gibben should permit a close approximation of the true altitude when proper corrections are applied water boiled 9 degrees the present estimate of the summits height Is upward ard of feet we NN were ere able to read angles on all prominent points withfield glasses we no clearly saw the flagpole erected in 1910 by he the thomas lloyd expedition on tho the north peak the lo 10 lower er of the two tuo main peaks after completing observations oa the summit we me hoisted the american flag on the upper basin erected a six foot cross and said te deum on the highest point of north america tho the northeast north bist ridge Is the tho only pIs possible sible tipp roath to the summit due to we violent earthquakes of last july the higher ridges were terribly shattered and this added largely to tho the danger difficulty an anu d labor of the ascent we spent three weeks in contin bous bad weather eather hewing hemang a passage three miles long through this side this was the chief cause of delay as we e mado made rapid progress at all other stages of the journey tho the chief credit for our success lb due to good judgment re illness and caution we lid not have a single mishap |