Summary of Andy Hall's Denali's Howl

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Alaska Range is a cordillera that arcs across Alaska, dividing the coastal lowlands around Cook Inlet from the Yukon lowlands of interior Alaska. The range is about 60 miles wide near Denali and home to twenty peaks taller than 10,000 feet.
#2 When prospector Frank Densmore visited Lake Minchumina in 1889, the big mountain rising to the south so enthralled him that he couldn’t stop talking about it. For the next twenty years, virtually all travel to the region was for exploration and mountaineering.
#3 The north face of Denali is named the Wickersham Wall, a 3-mile-wide precipice that sweeps skyward for 14,000 feet from the Peters Glacier to the summit of the north peak. It was named for Wickersham, who never made the summit, but ended his quest at an elevation of about 8,000 feet on the wall.
#4 In 1912, four Kantishna miners, incensed at Cook’s deception and fueled by a barroom bet, set out for the summit. The Sourdough Expedition spent three months approaching the mountain by dogsled and ascending via the Muldrow Glacier. They reached the top and spent two and a half hours on the north summit taking in the view and planting a fourteen-foot spruce pole in a location they thought could be seen in Fairbanks, 150 miles away.

Sujets

• Sports
• Recreation
• Mountaineering

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822544208
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Andy Hall's Denalis Howl
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#1

The Alaska Range is a cordillera that arcs across Alaska, dividing the coastal lowlands around Cook Inlet from the Yukon lowlands of interior Alaska. The range is about 60 miles wide near Denali and home to twenty peaks taller than 10,000 feet.

#2

When prospector Frank Densmore visited Lake Minchumina in 1889, the big mountain rising to the south so enthralled him that he couldn’t stop talking about it. For the next twenty years, virtually all travel to the region was for exploration and mountaineering.

#3

The north face of Denali is named the Wickersham Wall, a 3-mile-wide precipice that sweeps skyward for 14,000 feet from the Peters Glacier to the summit of the north peak. It was named for Wickersham, who never made the summit, but ended his quest at an elevation of about 8,000 feet on the wall.

#4

In 1912, four Kantishna miners, incensed at Cook’s deception and fueled by a barroom bet, set out for the summit. The Sourdough Expedition spent three months approaching the mountain by dogsled and ascending via the Muldrow Glacier. They reached the top and spent two and a half hours on the north summit taking in the view and planting a fourteen-foot spruce pole in a location they thought could be seen in Fairbanks, 150 miles away.

#5

The race for the top of Mount McKinley ended in 1913 when Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Robert Tatum, and Walter Harper set out from Fairbanks by dogsled. They reached the Kantishna mining district and McGonagall Pass, the gateway to the Muldrow Glacier.

#6

The summit of Denali is known to be one of the coldest places on the planet. The mountain’s subarctic latitude and great elevation combine to produce its especially harsh conditions. Earth’s atmosphere is thinner at the summit of Denali than it would be at a mountain of identical elevation at the equator.

#7

The fastest wind speed ever recorded on land was 231 miles per hour on Mount Washington in Maine in 1934. The Alaska Range acts like a bulwark, separating the moist coastal air coming from Cook Inlet to the south from the drier conditions to the north. When the cool highs and moist lows breach the wall, storms can arise.

#8

My father, a park ranger, was hired to work at Mount McKinley National Park in Alaska in 1967. When my family and I arrived at the park, barely fifty years had passed since Walter Harper first stood on the summit. In that half century, 420 mountaineers had attempted to scale the mountain, 213 had succeeded, and 4 had died trying.