Northwest History. Alaska. Explorers, Exploration & Discoveries.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1934
• Subjects: science; expeditions; Denali; Home of the Sun; Kuskokwim; Alaska; Mt. McKinley; North America; Mt. Foraker; Dr. T. Graham Brown; University of South Wales; the south peak; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; North Peak; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91121

Science Expeditions. SCIENCE Expeditions "Denali" (Home of the Sun) is the Kuskokwim Indians' name for Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mt. McKinley. highest point in North America. Few miles distant is the summit of Mt. Foraker, 17,000 ft. high, whose two breast-like peaks the Kuskokwim call "Denali's Wife." "Denali" had been climbed to the top but "Denali's Wife" had not last July when Dr. T. Graham Brown of the University of South Wales & party set up their base camp on the Foraker River. From there the climbers struggled to the ice-clad summit of Mt. Foraker's north peak, four days later through deep new snowdrifts to the crest of the south peak.