The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 72National Geographic Society., 1938 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... MOUNT WASHINGTON The hiker's line of. Photograph by B. P. Atkinson quer the heights of Mount Washington . Highest peak in the White Mountains , it thrusts its summit 6,288 feet above the sea and a mile above the valleys at its base . It ...
... MOUNT WASHINGTON The hiker's line of. Photograph by B. P. Atkinson quer the heights of Mount Washington . Highest peak in the White Mountains , it thrusts its summit 6,288 feet above the sea and a mile above the valleys at its base . It ...
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DOWNWARD BOUND AFTER CLIMBING MOUNT WASHINGTON The hiker's line of least resistance is the " Carriage Road , " which loops up the mountain in eighty - odd curves ( page 99 ) . This automobile route to the summit is about twice as long ...
DOWNWARD BOUND AFTER CLIMBING MOUNT WASHINGTON The hiker's line of least resistance is the " Carriage Road , " which loops up the mountain in eighty - odd curves ( page 99 ) . This automobile route to the summit is about twice as long ...
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... MOUNT WASHINGTON There are probably few mountains as fickle as Mount Washington . Some observ- ers have said that the summit is in a weather zone strange to the region about it . " It seems to permit a few people to reach its summit ...
... MOUNT WASHINGTON There are probably few mountains as fickle as Mount Washington . Some observ- ers have said that the summit is in a weather zone strange to the region about it . " It seems to permit a few people to reach its summit ...
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Algonquian Indians | 57 |
Soaring Heights of New Hampshire Attract | 73 |
Admiral Byrds Second | 105 |
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