Northwest History. Alaska. Explorers, Exploration & Discoveries.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1929
• Subjects: American explorers; Alaskan; Mount Katmai; inferno; San Francisco; Rev. Bernard H. Hubbard; Santa Clara university; Kodiak; Alaska; Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes; dormant; Roderick Chisholm; moccasins; Novarupta volcano; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91111

American Explorers Find Alaskan Mount Katmai Veritable Inferno. AMERICAN EXPLORERS FIND ALASKAN MOUNT KATMAI VERITABLE INFERNO SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 29. (/P) -- The Examiner today published a dispatch from the Rev. Bernard H. Hubbard, Santa Clara university geologist, at Kodiak, Alaska, relating how he and a party of explorers battled against intense heat, severe cold, storms and hunger to survey Mt. Katmai and other points in the "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes." Father Hubbard reported that his party had been the first to penetrate the famous valley since 1912, when Mt. Katmai was in eruption. The explorers, he reported, encountered fieerce stroms in ascending the volcano, which is dormant. The dispatch related how Roderick Chisholm, former Santa Clara football star, a member of the exploring party, climbed the heated rocks of Novarupta volcano until his shoes were burned off his feet. Chisholm then made a pair of moccasins from the tops of another pair of shoes and he and his party pushed upward, but was forced back by the heat, steam and gases from the chaotic mountainside.