| Summary: | Missed 12 Days, But Never Lost: Mt. McKinley Explorer Caught Porcupines For Food -- Pilot Reaches Fairbanks. MISSED 12 DAYS, BUT NEVER LOST Mt. McKinley Explorer Caught Porcupines for Food—Pilot Reaches Fairbanks. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 21. (/P) —Pilot S. E. Robbins, who had been stranded on Muldrow glacier, Mount McKinley, because of a broken axle, returned to Fairbanks last night, having replaced the axle with one dropped to him in a parachute by Pilot Jerry Robbins had flown there two days ago to return Percy T. Olton Jr., a member of the ill-fated Allen Carpe cosmic ray expedition, to Fairbanks and to search for Nicholas Spade- vecckia, another member of the party. However Spadevecckia and Olton were safe and remained at the camp to collect their instruments, and spend a week or so on the glacier. Spadevecckia, who had not been heard from for 12 days, returned to camp Thursday night and said he had never been lost. He explained snow and stream conditions were such he couldn't return to the camp, after he had started originally for Fairbanks when Carpe and Theodore Koven, another member of the group, were killed when they slipped into a crevasse. Spadevecckia said he ran short of food, but caught three porcupines with his skii stick. He saved a can of jam and chicken for the "crawling stage," he added. Muldrow glacier is now unsafe for further airplane landings because of warmer weather and Robbins had some difficulty in taking off.
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