Our John Muir. He Is Off for the Alps to Explore Their Great Glaciers. A Perilous Undertaking. But He Is Sure-Footed and He Can Take Care of Himself . . . . The Latest Portrait of the Great Mountain Climber-One of His Characteristic Talks-How He Works.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1893
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; pamphlets; journal articles; speeches; writing; annotation; Mount Whitney; Norway; The Guides; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/598; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1597/viewcontent/A10.pdf

<7ΓÇö' ' 8 mornhstc* ;U He Is Off for the Alps to Explore Their Great A PERILOUS UNDERTAKING. But He Is Sure=Footed anc He Can Take Care of Himself. HE WILL ALSO GO TO NORWAY. The Latest Portrait of the Great Mountain-CIimber ΓÇö One of His Characteristic TalksΓÇöHow He Works. A: for Europe to-dav to of Switzerland, Nor- ^Ihn Muir starts ^fl^ore the glaciers way and Sweden. If he "does" them as he has those in the Sierras and Alaska he will surprise the Alpine Club and the guides there. Probably there is no greater mountain- ahmber in all the world than that wiry bundle, our John Muir. He was hard at work yesterday at his quarters in the tjuiversity Club finishing up a couple of long-promised articles for the Century. Asked about his trip he said that he supposed he would go down to Spain with William B>ith and also revisit the scenes ΓÇót his childhood in Scotland, but would pi?4 in most of his time on the glaciers in. Switzerland and the north. "That will be familiar ground to me," fee said, "although I have never been there. National Park south to the lower end of the Sierras on Kern River from the summit of the range to the lower edge of the timber line, about 3000 feet above the level of the sea. This included Mount Whitney and all the high Sierras. The whole of the fertile bed of the San Joaquin, which naturally depends on these tracts as a watershed to preserve itself, was threatened, but is now saved. Of course, some of the land in tho reservations has been taken up, but not enough to do any material injury unless the Cami- netti bill passes. No sooner does the Government make a reservation for the benefit of the whole people than greedy attacks are made upon it. Already this national park is threatened by the Caminetti bill, which proposes a very material reduction in its boundaries. But far from giving way to the private greed of a few mill- owners and sheer-herders by reducing the area of those parks upon which the welfare of so much country depends it ought to be increased to the extent of ...