Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These photographs were taken by Maynard M. Miller '43 and William R. Latady, members of the seven-man expedition which scaled the peak, Alaska's second highest, last summer. Latady, a president of the HMC, left Cambridge recently on an Antarctic voyage with Commander Finn Ronney. His films, 2800 feet of them, are all 16mm color photos, covering all aspects of the climb...
...addition to its own expeditions, the most famous of which was the seven-man HMC trip to Mt. St. Elias in Alaska last summer the Harvard Mountaineers have participated in many of the most important large-scale expeditions of recent years. In 1938, several Club members joined the American Alpine Club's reconnaissance trip to K2 in the Himalayas. K2 is the second highest mountain in the world...
...Arctic (see cut), it looked as though Seward had been right about Greenland; and Lansing wrong. The U.S. frontier is now on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Thanks to "Seward's Folly," the fortress of North America has a castellated outpost at the northwest angle in Alaska. But at the northeast angle it has only tenuous base rights, to expire with the peace...
Greenland's 800,000 square miles make it the world's largest island and stationary aircraft carrier. It would be as valuable as Alaska during the next few years, before bombers with a 10,000-mile range are in general use. It would be invaluable, in either conventional or push-button war, as an advance radar outpost. It would be a forward position for future rocket-launching sites. In peace or war it is the weather factory for northwest Europe, whose storms must be recorded as near the source as possible...
Spending in the Arctic. After listing savings, Minister Claxton got around to what the armed forces would retain. They will keep in operation the Northwest Staging Route (a series of airfields along the Alaska Highway) and the Churchill air base, and they will continue to expand the system of weather stations in the Arctic. Canada will cooperate closely with the U.S. in operating the stations...