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Show been seen from Fairbanks, 140 miles away." Professor Parker, in sp'te of his failure fail-ure to compicr McKinley. believes that a way will yet be found to scale tbo nwunta.'n. EXPLORATION i Professor Parker Fur-j Fur-j nishes Proof That 'Dr. j Cook Has Falsified i New York, Nov. 10 Professor Hers-chel Hers-chel Parker of Columbia University, who recently returned from his exploration ex-ploration of Mount McKinley, today mado public a series of photographs taken near the Alaskan mountain which he claims is lndisputablo evidence evi-dence that Dr. Freder ck A. Cook, the Brooklyn traveler, never reached the j top of ihe highest peak In America. Prof. Parker states that be found tho mountain peak, which Dr. Cook photographed and called Mount McKinley, Mc-Kinley, "the ton of the- continent," pud In support of his statement, showed show-ed a photograph of a mountain peak taken by his expedition last summer ; nnd pointed om that a comparison of the two photographs shows in detail de-tail identical outlines of rock formation, for-mation, proving that they are pictures pic-tures of the same mountain. , "The mountain which I photograph- ' cd." said Professor Parker, "was twenty miles away from Mount McKinley Mc-Kinley and llf'een thousand feet be- low its summit. This ls the same j peak that Cook photographed and tolled the top of the continent.'" Professor Parker corroborates the . confession a year ago by Edward Bar-rlll, Bar-rlll, guide for Dr. Cook, that they never reached the top of Mount Mc- Kinley. "We left our boat on the Tokositna ' tt ajout the same spot where Dr. I Cook and Parrlll took to the ice," said 1 Professor Parker, who was a member I of Dr. Cook's expedition 'n 190C. "My I Ilea was to follow as closely as pos-I pos-I llblc the route taken by the doctor , n.l we had no dllflcnlty in doing this j vlth BarrlU's man at hand. In a few I Jays our party reached the spot noted i i n the map as the point where Bar-! ! 'ill's picture was taken. This was ! n the amphitheater glacier In the, ': 'oothills of Mount McKinley, and. , twenty miles from Its baae. I 1 "Having reached this place, the vrobleni that now confronted us was o pick the rock on wh.ch P.arrlll ' itood when he was photographed w ith j j he flag In his hands. This, perhaos i wis easier to do than one might lm ! i ague, In spite of the fact that there were innumerable rocky peaks on all sites of us. There will be noticed In th lower right-hand corner of Dr. Cok's photograph a peak in the dis-taice, dis-taice, the snow formation on the top ! of which should make it easily dls tligaishable It was, therefore, n comparatively simple matter to Identify Iden-tify the peak as the secoDd of seven paks of Ruth glacier, only a few mlea away from where we stood. Dr. . C'cok has said there are twelve peaks, bit he evidently did not carry his investigation far enough to discover oriy seven. Then we soon found the ro:k we wanted in the snow saddle. B.rrill mentioned and at last we were at the 'top of the continent.' " 'You will remember that B.irrlll swore that the picture In Dr. Cook's bad: enpt'oned. "First Five of the Tvclve New Peaks of Ruth Glacier.' wis taken on the snme day that Dr. Ceok took tho famous photograph of th guide. That this statement was trie is readily noted. In another p!c-tire p!c-tire entitled, 'Amphitheater.' the rock Itself on which Barrlll stood ru.iy be seen. "On account of the formation of the srow cornices, it was impcssUde to plotogTaph the rock from the exact spot where Dr. Cook himself stood. Tleso cornices are shaped ucco'dln'i to the whims of ihe winds that blow and the formation varies from year to year. It will also lie noted that thcie Is more xuov iu the photograph I took. This Is due to the fact that I wis there In Jjly, while Dr. Cook's photograph was taken In September. A considerable amount ef snow naturally na-turally would nuMt away In two summer sum-mer niontbs. But you can readily see that the photcgraphe are of one and the snme rock, and a very paltry rock it Is at that. I duplicated a number num-ber of other photographs In Dr Cook's i look at totally different points from .' where 'he doctor says that they were ! I taken and these, with a detailed ac- count of my expedition, will bo made pubi c at a later date. But these photographs pho-tographs are of far loss importance? than that of the 'summit' Itfelf. "After getting all the material I wanted In this neighborhood, we pushed en twenty miles further to the base of McKinley and made numerous attempts to cross the northeast ridg? of the mountain. But the pa-is-'gi was effectually cut off by a 12.0011-foot 12.0011-foot range rf ice peaks at the head of Ruth glacier, which was lmpa-s-. able on account of the pinnacles and crevasses Dr. Cook in;kes no mention men-tion of iheni In his book, never hav-. j ing been far enough to see them. ' j "Then, turning back, we went as j far as possible on tbo southwest face of McKinley and. after reaching an j elevation of 10 000 feet. ?ave up any fjrtbcr attempts to sca'e the mountain, moun-tain, i "While I regret that wo were unable un-able to get to the top, still we had accomplished ac-complished tbo nbjeer of my mission und felt satisfied with the result of the expedition." When asked what he thought of th despatches from Alaska in the early Miitrner. saying that Tom Lloyd had reached the ton of the mountain. Professor Pro-fessor Parker said ho desired to correct cor-rect some statements which had been attributed to him concerning the 1 a t-1 ter." 1 "I never sal.!," he declared, "that Tom I.Ioyd did not reach McK!nley's summit. What I did siy w-n that, although al-though our party got within seven mlle.i of it. none of us could see, even with the stronstst glasses, the flag pole. Lloyd says he planted there Vi . 'stay. How rldlcub us. therefore, the fetauineuts were that tho flag Ltd ' |