Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alaskan weather was tough. The little planes had no de-icing equipment. They hopped along the Aleutian chain and on down the Alaska Highway, taking chances all the way with dwindling daylight and freezing weather...
Most recent expedition to what the appetites of the Club's over upward-looking group of mountaineers was last summer's successful ascent of three-mile-high Mount St. Elias, in Alaska, the fourth highest peak in North America. On the same campaign the HMC's eight-man party under William L. Putnam '45, added twenty-one more first ascents to the Club's long list of accomplishments fifteen of them in four days of climbing...
...Bill, the hunter, who kept the camp supplied with meat, had been around a long time and a lot of places. Up in Alaska said Bill, "I saw big hairy elephants buried in the ice. Not only them, but ferns high as a tree and palms. That country was in the tropics at one time...
...days later, Pan American World Airways reported that one of its DC-4 Alaska Clippers, with 13 passengers and a crew of five aboard, was missing on a flight from Seattle to Juneau...
...must have added Alaska, Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Wake...