NEW MOUNTAIN PEAKS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 14

NEW MOUNTAIN PEAKS

NAMED AFTER ROYALTY

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WASHINGTON, June iA

Bradford vvashouru, tne intrepid young leader of tne Aattona] Geograpuie ooeieiy's i uiiou Expedition, tias reported to the society thai tne expedition s work, winch resulted in erasing a iarge Diinci spot noni tne map 01

.sorui America, n.ia ueen compiexed. inc otus Lanciing achievements of the expedition niciuue tile iirst crossing of tile loroiitding and dangerous ueigius of in.; »l. rmas mouiitaiH range on the Aiaska-l'ukou border and Uie mapping of large areas of previously uncharted i>.rriLury m uie Ist. Klius region, not iar from ine Klondike gold country.

Almost from the moment when Washburn and his companions arrived in tne i u.von they i'ougnt adverse conditions, r'or weens tiny sledged across great, mountain masses, handicapped by oimdtng blizzards, oreaciierous tooting, severe ooid and uie threat of avaianeues and ice fads, but accomplished their surveying and photography despite these diiiicuitifs.

JJauger dogged the expedition even to tiie end. Three of the explorers were stranded near a frozen lake when iadure of tne ice to break up delayed their Ui.-.euu by the expedition's airplane. When finally reached by rescuers their food was , almost exhausted and Doth mv.n and dog* ; had been subsisting clueliy on a large, moose which had been killed. _ The region explored by the expedition includes peaks which rank among the highest in .North America. Two new mountain peaks discovered by the expedition were named for iving Ueorge and Queen Mary oi England in lionor of their Silver Jubilee.