| Summary: | Active Alaskan Volcano And Glacier Photographed From Air By Washburn. Active Alaskan Volcano and Glacier Photographed From Air by Washburn VALDEZ, Alaska, Aug. 16 (/P)— High in cloudless sky, Bradford Washburn, explorer and mountain climber, yesterday recorded with camera nature's changing story in a vast glaciated area in the mountainous borderlands of Alaska and Canada. Conqueror only a month ago of Mount Lucania, highest mountain hitherto unclimbed in North America, the youthful Cambridge, Mass., explorer in a 600-mile flight reported he took more than 200.pictures of the little-known wilderness, of a great glacier flowing north from Mount Bona and of an active volcano in the Wrangell mountains. In the light of a setting Pilot Robert Reeve set down his plane here—the end of the expedition for Mr. Washburn who began immediately his trek home with photographs and records he has gathered for the New England Museum of Natural History' and the Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration, joint sponsors of the expedition. The flight came after a wait of a month for suitable flying and photographic conditions. Mr. Reeve and Mr. Washburn took off at dawn from Burwash, landing on Kluane Lake, Canada, and flew over the Saint Elias and Wrangell mountain ranges. "We followed the route Robert Bates (of Philadelphia) and I used during our ascent of Mount Lucania," Mr. Washburn reported "The temperature was close to zero. "We continued at an altitude of 13,000 feet all along the Canadian face of the range and crossed Sk'olia pass to obtain a superb view of a great glacier flowing north from Mount Bona. "We flew past the entire west face of the great Wrangell Range. Mount Wrangell, a vast 14,000 foot dome of ice and snow is still an active volcano with smoke clouds rising, high out of its snow filled creator. "The photographs we took mark the successful completion of our expedition. Every part of our expedition is homeward bound via Seattle."
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