MOUNT McKINLEY 



MT. McKINLEY, 

 with an altitude 

 of 20,464 feet, 

 is the highest mountain 

 in North America, and 

 forms the central point 

 of an enormous and sur- 

 passingly grand moun- 

 tain mass, situated at 

 the headwaters of the 

 Sushitna and Kuskok- 

 wim Rivers, in Alaska. 

 The range is a portion of 

 the Cordilleran system of 

 North America, which 

 follows in a general way 

 the contour of the west 

 coast of the continent 

 through Alaska and down 

 the Alaskan peninsula. 



The mountain group 

 is extremely rugged and 

 is covered with snow and 

 ice to within 2,000 or 

 2,500 feet of sea-level. 

 Down the sides of the 

 mountains flow many gla- 

 ciers ; one which flows 

 off to the northeast is be- 

 tween 20 to 30 miles in 

 length and six and eight 

 miles in breadth, and ex- 

 tends to the Chulitna 

 River, a branch of the 

 Shushitna forming the 

 chief source of water sup- 

 ply of that stream. The 

 Chulitna River at the base 

 of the mountains has an 

 altitude of only about 500 

 feet, showing a descent of 

 20,000 feet in the 30 miles 

 between the summit of 

 the mountain and the 

 river. 



Mt. McKinley was 

 known to the Russians 

 settled about the head of 

 Cook Inlet nearly 100 

 years ago, and was called 



