The Canadian Alpine Journal, Volume 15Alpine Club of Canada., 1925 - Canada |
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... Carpe 81 Wild Life of the Upper Chitina . By Hamilton M. Laing 99 Food . By A. H. MacCarthy 115 Notes on Equipment . By H. S. Hall , Jr. 121 IN MEMORIAM Sir James Outram 127 ALPINE CLUB NOTES In the Cariboo Range - Mt . David Thompson ...
... Carpe 81 Wild Life of the Upper Chitina . By Hamilton M. Laing 99 Food . By A. H. MacCarthy 115 Notes on Equipment . By H. S. Hall , Jr. 121 IN MEMORIAM Sir James Outram 127 ALPINE CLUB NOTES In the Cariboo Range - Mt . David Thompson ...
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... Carpe , experienced a most dangerous adventure in the torrential waters of the Chitina , after which , with almost no food , they had to walk fifty miles to McCarthy . His admiration for Foster is a marked feature of his report . But it ...
... Carpe , experienced a most dangerous adventure in the torrential waters of the Chitina , after which , with almost no food , they had to walk fifty miles to McCarthy . His admiration for Foster is a marked feature of his report . But it ...
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GROUP TAKEN AT MCCARTHY , ALASKA , MAY 11TH , 1925 L. to R.:-Reed , Carpe , Foster , MacCarthy , Hall , Taylor , Morgan , Lambart The intense disappointment of reaching the first summit and then.
GROUP TAKEN AT MCCARTHY , ALASKA , MAY 11TH , 1925 L. to R.:-Reed , Carpe , Foster , MacCarthy , Hall , Taylor , Morgan , Lambart The intense disappointment of reaching the first summit and then.
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... Carpe , although all but done , would not yield and helped by his companions , equally incapable , reached this further objective and secured his triumph , thereby obtaining several of the most valuable photographic views of all . It is ...
... Carpe , although all but done , would not yield and helped by his companions , equally incapable , reached this further objective and secured his triumph , thereby obtaining several of the most valuable photographic views of all . It is ...
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... Carpe's photographs from near the summit of Mt. Logan . on the northern and northeastern slopes of the massif this year gave for the first time some conception of the complexity of this system . Photographs taken at a distance of twenty ...
... Carpe's photographs from near the summit of Mt. Logan . on the northern and northeastern slopes of the massif this year gave for the first time some conception of the complexity of this system . Photographs taken at a distance of twenty ...
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A. H. MacCarthy a.m. Cascade Camp advance base camp Alaska Alpine Club altitude American Alpine Club Andy aneroid ascent of Mt back-packing Baldwin Glacier Bivouac Peak cache camera Canadian Rockies Canyon Carpe Chitina Glacier Chitina River Chitina Valley cliffs climb Club of Canada crampons crevasses Devil's Door dog teams Double Peak elevation Elias equipment Everest feet Foster gorge H. F. Lambart heavy Hubrick Camp June King Col Camp King Glacier King Peak Lake O'Hara loads Logan Expedition Logan Glacier McCarthy miles Minimum overnight moraine Mount Logan mountain névé night Ogilvie Glacier outfit p.m. Camp party photographs Photos pounds Quartz Ridge range reached relay rock rope route séracs Seward Glacier sheep side sleds slopes snow shoes steep storm stream stretches summit of Mt supply temperature tent timber Trail End trip Walsh Glacier weather willow wind Windy Camp woods Yakutat Bay Yukon
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Page 16 - come now to the two splendid records of the Russell expedition of 1890 and 1891. These, under the joint auspices of the National Geographic Society and the United States Geological Survey, were instrumental in adding greatly to our knowledge of the country. Russell's exhaustive studies
Page 27 - 16 miles from east to west and 8 miles from north to south, and
Page 127 - in the belief that the pass north of it was the true source of the North Thompson River. Northward of this pass gleamed an
Page 90 - In strong wind the snow blows up from the ground and fills the air with ice crystals, forming an intransparent layer many
Page 90 - away disappear in the drifting snow. In such weather it is difficult and dangerous to move about.
Page 127 - obviously monarch of the range. "The dominant feature of the scene was the magnificent mountain which the
Page 90 - thick; it is often possible to see the blue sky at zenith, while objects only a few