20,000 FEET CLIMB.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1816, 31 July 1913, Page 10

20,000 FEET CLIMB.

ARCHDEACON REACHES THE SUMMIT 01-' MOUNT M'KINLEY. American geographers accept the statement of Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, episcopal missionary for Alaska, that lie successfully scaled Mount M'lvinicy, the highest peak in North America, thereby constituting a record which all American mountaineers will envy; with tlva possible exception of Dr. Cook, whoso account of planting tho Stars and Stripes "at the top of Alaska" proves just as illusionary as his discovery of the North Pole. Archdeacon. Stuck and his companions, according to tho London "Daily News," planned the Mount M'lvinicy expedition by way of a holiday outing, but * they laboured liko galley staves for threo weeks in hewing an approach through three miles of ice. With this exception, tho expedition apparently met with no special difficulty, and no accidents. Once they had scaled the apex tho Archdeacon's party knelt in prayer, ect up a cross, and sang tho "To Deum." Tho height of Mount M'Kinlcy is given as 20,500 feet. Archdeacon Stuck has been engaged in missionary work amongst (he Alaskan Indians sineo 1904. Ho graduated from King's College, London, in ISS3. and for many years was engaged in Church work in Texas, when that State was regarded as a missionary field.