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Show SURVEYING IN FAR IllORTH Work Has to Be Done Quickly or Party Is' In Grave Danger of Being j Frozen In. North of the Porcupine river, on the upper section ot the Alaska-Canada boundary survey, the geodeslsts assigned as-signed to this work by the two governments gov-ernments found that only 100 days elans- from the first navigation up th river in May until IV was time to retreat rather than take the risk of sing frosen tn, ."The highest and most difficult .climbs on the work were probably ,made this last season, when one of. the Canadian topographical parties occupied Mount Nataxhat 13,000 feet high. and a joint American and Canadian Cana-dian party succeeded in getting up without about two thousand feet of the summit of. Mount St. Ellas, which towers 18,000 feet above the sea. This party would probably have been successful suc-cessful In reaching the summit had not a, four days' snow storm depleted their supplies to such an extent that they were forced to retreat to their base, 40 miles, away over tho glaciers. Engineering En-gineering Record. |
