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Grand Teton Ascended. 



M.VNS FOOT I'L.ACEL) OS ITS PEAK lOR 

 THE FIRST TIME 



Two rem uk:{l)lc feats in mountain 

 climbing have just Lcen accomplished. 

 In one c.T-c Mr?. C bum. wife of the 

 pa<t') 'I Trinity .\Ici!;odiit Episcopal 

 church in thi.-; city, was the first wo- 

 man to set foot on the t. p of Mount 

 Evans. Colorado In the other, the 

 ascent of thj Grand Teton, on the 

 border lino btlwetn Idaho and Wy- 

 omirg. often attempted unsuccessfully 

 and by mai.y thouj;!- 1 to be impossible, 

 was ace jmplished by a p irty made up 

 of the Rev. Frank S Spalding, for- 

 merl..' o( DvUVlt ai.d now of Erie, 

 Fa., a san of i)ish<.v,i J.jhii F. Spald- 

 iug of the di'JCeSk; of Colorado, \V. O. 

 Owen of Cheyenne. Wyo. . Frank S. 

 Peterson of Jackson, \\'yo . and John 

 Shive of Elk, Wyo The ascent was 

 exceedingly difficult and dangerous. It 

 was in one place over a ledge of inse- 

 i are reck overlooking a precipice with 



a sheer drop of 3,000 feet that the 

 summit of the Grand Teton was 

 reached. The path in places was so 

 narrow that progress was made only 

 by seeking out with the lingers crev- 

 ices in which to secure a hold to drag 

 the body along. The ascent rivals 

 the most difficult feats of .\lpine climb- 

 ing. Crevasses, snowbanks, glaciers, 

 ice^great fields of it — precipices and 

 crumbling, falling granite, were all en- 

 countered. 



The Grand Teton is the subject of 

 hundreds of legends among the In- 

 dians, and is still a mysterious temple 

 of the Great Spirit to them. It has 

 always been regarded as folly to at- 

 tempt to reach the summit and when 

 the Kocky Mountain Club's represent- 

 atives announced that they were going 

 to the top, the Idaho Falls Gazette 

 warned tiiem against the undertaking, 

 and advised them to give up a wild 

 scheme that was sure to result disas- 

 trously. But they persevered and con- 

 quered. The Rev. Mr. Spalding has 

 returned and gives a graphic account 

 of the adventure. 



"The party left Denver Aug. 5, " he 

 said. "We reached .Market Lake, 

 Idaho, on Aug. 8. We secured a 

 team and rode to Jackson's Hole, a 

 two and one-half days' journey At 

 the Hole we took pack horses and 

 made twelve miles on the Teton route, 

 just inside the Wyoming line. Our 

 camp was pitched at timber line on 

 Aug. 10. The camp was right be- 

 neath Grand Teton, and it was a sight 

 that I shall never forget, when, early 

 in the morning of Aug. 1 1 ; we saw it 

 wreathed with clouds and sombre as if 

 rebuking us for daring to scale itr 



"We started at 5 o'clock. We 

 went up something like 900 feet, and 

 being confronted by a wall of rock 

 went down again. Finally we made 

 the valley again and determined to 

 follow it up. We reached our first 

 glacier and found it to be three-fourths 

 of a mile across, solid ice, covered 

 with rocks and checkered with deep 

 crevasses. The glacier led to a snow- 



