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siastic Scout Master and other volunteers for like services are de- 
sired. Surely there is a great work for the Mountaineers in co-operat- 
ing in the splendid work of making good citizens, and training good 
material for future Mountaineers. 
The Research Committee of the National Geographic Society has 
made an appropriation of $5,000 from the research fund to continue 
the studies of the Alaska glaciers which were conducted by the so- 
ciety in 1909 and 1910. The work this year was in charge of Prof. 
Ralph S. Tarr of Cornell University and Prof. Lawrence Martin of the 
University of Wisconsin. 
While Mt. McKinley is the highest peak in North America it is 
also remarkable in having the longest snow and ice slope of any of 
the world’s great mountains. This mountain demands about 18,000 
to 19,000 feet of snow and ice work, while Mount Everest, the world’s 
highest peak, has a perpetual snow line of between 17,000 and 18,000 
feet, leaving only 11,000 to 12,000 feet of snow. The Parker-Browne 
expedition to Mount McKinley spent fifty nights continuously on snow 
and ice, and experienced difficulties as great in attaining an elevation 
of 10,300 feet as any to be encountered in reaching an altitude of 
20,000 feet in the Himalayas. 
The Sierra Club of California has recently accomplished important 
work in the planting of trout in fishless lakes and streams. The club 
took up this work several years ago, co-operating with the California 
Fish and Game Commission. In a few years the regions planted will 
become a veritable ‘fisherman’s paradise’. A large sum was appro- 
priated for the work, which enabled them to equip two pack trains 
with specially built cans and other necessary apparatus. 
The “Mountaineer” department of the Boston Transcript, con- 
ducted by John Ritchie, Jr., is a veritable clearing house of mountain 
information. 
Miss Dora Keen, who attempted the ascent of Mt. Blackburn in 
Alaska last summer and was compelled to return on account of in- 
sufficient supplies, has a splendid record as a climber in the high Alps 
in the summer of 1909. In summarizing and contrasting her 16 climbs, 
she ranks the Matterhorn as the hardest, because it was so long un- 
der the conditions that they had, and was hard all the time, but the 
Chamonix guides do not admit that it is harder than the Aiguilles. 
In general, except for the Matterhorn, the ascents at Chamonix were 
