Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking on his "Aerial Adventures in the Yukon," Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, young explorer, last night entertained the members of the Harvard Travelers' Club in the Geographical Institute auditorium...
Because of the almost insurmountable St. Elias Range which runs along the southern section of the Alaskan-Yukon border, the International Boundary Commission around 1900 was able to survey only from the Alaskan side. It was upon the uncharted Canadian side that Washburn did his work from February to June of this year...
...expedition of less than a dozen took the White Pass and Yukon Railroad up from Skagway to Carcross, 70 miles northeast. This bleak, one-hotel town served as base for the two airplanes by which the area to be mapped was completely photographed. Upon these photographs the overland sledge journey for the actual surveying was planned...
...famed Bradford Washburn, '33, will continue on December 18 with a lecture on "Exploring the Yukon's Glacial Stronghold". Distinguished by exceptional motion picture shots and a brilliant address. Washburn's lectures are always popular...
Another party was led by Walter D. Wood '26, who, accompanied by his brother, Harrison Wood '36, reached the unconquered peak of Mt. Steele. This mountain, which is also in the Yukon region, is 16,400 feet high, making it one of the ten loftiest peaks in North America...