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Page 1 of 1Hudson Stuck
November 11, 1865 - October 10, 1920
Nationality: English
Category: Explorer
Subcategory: English Explorer
|  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. | | A pupil is a great resource. | | We took a straight course up the great snow ridge. | | The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose. | | An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. | | 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. | | 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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