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...DAVIDSON dropped out of school in California to climb mountains. He's a lanky, agile man with a thick red beard and hair the same length as his beard. His deep voice bobs pleasantly up and down as though he's always telling favorite stories to an appreciative group of children. One day when he was walking along a road in British Columbia between climbs, a stranger stopped and offered to give Art a ride to Anchorage; Art had heard of the incredible beauty of the mountains around Anchorage, so he took the ride, and when he arrived...
...Davidson leads a more settled life now. He makes films for his own Anchorage-based company, Alaska Wildlife Productions, and has published a book, Minus 148, about the first winter ascent of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley. (The title refers to the temperature Art and two other members of the expedition withstood when they were forced to wait out a windstorm for several days in an ice-cave near the summit. One member of the expedition died in a crevasse during the ascent; Art was lucky enough to return to Anchorage with the loss of only...
...bottom of the dirt road that leads up from the highway south of Anchorage to the Davidson homestead, there is a sign that reads "Please, no shooting..." At the top of the road, up near the rock buttresses of peaks that overlook a broad arm of Cook Inlet to a mountain range on the other side, Art lives with his wife Mairiis and his two sons, Arlyn and Dylan...
...evening during the last week in August there was new snow on the tops of the mountains just above the Davidson homestead. Art and Mairiis will have a new, bigger house built by the end of next summer, but they'll spend this winter, as last winter, in their one room. Mairiis, who was brought up on a homestead in a place on the coast where the winters are relatively mild, looked up at the fresh snow and shivered. "I kind of dread the winter here. It gets so cold...
Although Harvard came back with five second-period goals. Dartmouth kept it close on goals by captain Ken Davidson and Mike Turner, who had scored the first two Big Green goals...