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A scientist is only a "scientist." How that name tends continually to depreciate itself as the pursuit of physical science is divorced more and more completely from a knowledge of literature, from a knowledge of the humanities!

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Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

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Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.

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Your exclusive "scientist - and such are most of them today - may be competent to deal with circles and triangles, with wheels and levers with cells and glands, with germs and bacilli and microorganisms generally, with magnetos and dynamos, with all the heavenly host if you like, but he has no equipment to deal with man!

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There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

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Hudson Stuck

Hudson Stuck

Born: November 11, 1863

Died: October 10, 1920 (aged 56)

Bio: Hudson Stuck was a British native who became an Episcopal priest, social reformer, and mountain climber in the United States. With Harry P. Karstens, he co-led the first expedition to successfully climb Denali in June 1913, via the South Summit.

Known for:

The ascent of Denali (1914)
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled
A winter circuit of our Arctic coast (1919)

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