Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Louise Blyton, Brian Janes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net THE ASCENT OF DENALI (MOUNT McKINLEY) A NARRATIVE OF THE FIRST COMPLETE ASCENT OF THE HIGHEST PEAK IN NORTH AMERICA BY HUDSON STUCK, D.D. ARCHDEACON OF THE YUKON ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1918 [Illustration: Ice Fall of nearly four thousand feet, by which the upper or Harper Glacier discharges into the lower or Muldrow Glacier (page 39)] COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published February, 1914 BOOKS BY HUDSON STUCK, D.D., F.R.G.S. PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS VOYAGES ON THE YUKON AND ITS TRIBUTARIES A Narrative of Summer Travel in the Interior of Alaska Illustrated. 8vo _Net_ $4.50 "His book is a worthy contribution in a fascinating field of natural and geographical science as well as an entertaining record of highly expert and continually risky exploration." --_Phila. North American._ THE ASCENT OF DENALI (MT. MCKINLEY) Illustrated. 8vo _Net_ $1.75 "A wonderful record of indomitable pluck and endurance." --_Bulletin of the American Geographical Society._ "Its pages make one wish that all mountain climbers might be archdeacons if their accounts might thus gain, in the interest of happenings by the way, emotional vision and intellectual outlook." --_New York Times._ TEN THOUSAND MILES WITH A DOG SLED A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Illustrated. 8vo _Net_ $1.75 "One of the most fascinating and altogether satisfactory books of travel which we have seen this year, or, indeed, any year." --_New York Tribune._ "This startlingly brilliant book."--_Literary Digest._ TO SIR MARTIN CONWAY ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVELLERS AND CLIMBERS WHOSE FASCINATING NARRATIVES HAVE KINDLED IN MANY BREASTS A LOVE OF THE GREAT HEIGHTS AND A DESIRE TO ATTAIN UNTO THEM THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH RESPECT AND ADMIRATION PREFACE Forefront in this book, because forefront in the author's heart and desire, must stand a plea for the restoration to the greatest mountain in North America of its immemorial native name. If there be any prestige or authority in such matter from the accomplishment of a first complete ascent, "if there be any virtue, if there be any praise," the author values it chiefly as it may give weight to this plea.