Word: glaciered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Films will be shown of trout fishing in Glacier Park, climbing Mount Ranier, and of the wild life of Yellowstone Park. Dean Lobdell of M. I. T. has said that they are the most beautiful pictures of wild country that he has ever seen. In addition there will be a Barold Lloyd comedy entitled "Never Weaken", and the whole performance will be supplemented by music...
...shore of Battle Harbor. After a brief stop there, the pilgrims pushed off on their journey's last leg for Wiscasset, Me., bringing with them no news of a new continent below the Pole, but an exotic story of soaring over mile upon murderous mile of glacier-ridden Arctic fastnessess, and scientific data for future aerial polar exploration...
...planes scoured Ellesmere Land for a safe site and thought to have found one in Flagler Fjord. They left some fuel and oil, flew back to camp for more, returned and found a grinding field of ice had taken possession. More hunting in and out of that dangerous, glacier-hung shore and they put down another depot in Sawyer Bay. Same result. After deciding to give up the Cape Hubbard flight and turn to other objectives of the expedition...
...masses." Scaling one peak only to find one 600 ft. higher looming beside them, they toiled 1,000 feet down, then hacked footholds up to the true peak. They stood for an hour on a ledge, a yard wide, looking off over a billowing sea of clouds punctured by glacier-streaming peaks. They saw their own shadows moving in a rainbow 19,800* ft. above the sea-floors of the world...
...clamberers wended down as they had wended up, through their advance camp on a ridge at 18,500 ft. down to a bivouac in Windy Camp, on down through the frosted portcullis of McCarthy Gap to the foot of King Col Massif, to Cascade (Alaska), to Ogilvie Glacier, to Walsh, to Chitina (where bears had robbed their food caches), to Trail End, to Kubrick...