¶ "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 breastlike 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,...
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