Lived for Fortnight On Dog Food and Fish
ALASKAN EXPLORING PARTY MAROONED New York Times Broadcast SEWARD (Alaska), April 19. After subsisting on dog food and shell fish for two weeks while marooned on the desolate shores of Ivatmai Beach, Bather B. R. Hubbard, Santa Clara geologist and “padro of the glaciers” and his co-explorers, Kenneth Chisholm, of San Francisco, and Jack Morton, of Anchorage, Alaska, have been rescued by the schooner Polar Bear, it was learned here to-day. The party successfully reconnoitred Mount Katmai and scaled the great peak for the first time in winter. It was during the descent of Mount Katmai on the return to Katmai beach that disaster overtook them. Ice in the Katmai river broke up suddenly and prccipiatcd the party into the stream. It was with difficulty that the men saved themselves and their valuable scientific data by’wadiug and swimming through the rushing icy waters.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6840, 22 April 1932, Page 7
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