University of Alaska Fairbanks - Denali Yearbook (Fairbanks, AK)

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They made it to the top— From left to right are Dave Johnson, Don Sheldon (the pilot who took them off the mountain), Gregg Blomberg, John Edwards, Ray Genet and Art Davidson John Edwards has his feet examined for frost bite. Each member of the expedition received a complete physical. Frost bi

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-• ' Eorly photos of Ben Atkinson tell the story of his love of the great Alaskan outdoors

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HAIL THE CONQUERORS I plan a trip to the summit of a mountain and I dream of what I will encounter on the way. . the difficulties, the view, the ridges and colors, grassy lunch spots, the ice, snow and rock, my companions. It is this combination of things involved on the ascent that makes the summit meaningful. When a Denali staff member asked me, as a winter McKinley climber to comment on Ad Summum, I thought I would rather consider summum, not as an apex or summit to work toward but as a standard of the highest order, an excellence, a quality which is to be found and kept every moment during an ascent or journey. Last winter I found summum not on top of Mt. McKinley but in the quality of the relationship between the climbers, in the difficulties of the ascent, in the beauty of McKinley Park. Here is the inclination that the journey is more important than the destination, that the means are more important than the end. Relate this to education and life as you wish; but I suggest if you go on a mountain trip, take along a big bag of raisins and nuts and enjoy yourself. — Art Davidson McKinley looks a lot smaller to these men who conquered it. the chief concern of the doctors that examined the climbers Here John gets his hands checked