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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



In July efforts were made to ascend Brides Peak, on whose 

 flank a base camp was established on the Chogolisa saddle. 



The Duke passed three weeks at an altitude exceeding 21,000, 

 feet, and made two attempts under conditions of great discomfort 

 and considerable danger, owing to the monsoon weather, which 

 brought heavy snow and dense clouds. Reaching 24,000 feet in 

 one attempt, he attained on his second definite cHmb, on July 

 i8th, with two guides, the record height on Brides Peak of 24,583 

 feet. The ridges were dangerous and difficult, while further 

 progress was barred by a dense fog, which enveloped the party 

 about 500 feet below the summit, which is 25,119 feet. 



This unsurpassed height of 24,583 feet supplants the previous 

 world record of 24,000 feet on Mount Kabru, attained by Nor- 

 wegian mountaineers in 1908. 



The Duke supplemented his strictly mountaineering feats by 

 extended surveys, hypsometrical observations, meteorological 

 records, and other scientific data of value and interest. His work 

 is entitled to the highest possible recognition from geographers 

 of all nations. — The National Geographic Magazine, March, 1910. 



Planting Golden Trout in Gardner Creek and Kings River 



Waters. 



An expedition to secure golden trout from Volcano Creek, 

 Mt. Whitney, for planting in Gardner Creek and Kings River 

 waters, left Lone Pine September 17, 1909, under the supervision 

 of Fish Commissioner Ober. The party consisted of Geo. Hall 

 and S. G. McMurray of Big Pine, and H. J. Bell of Bishop, 

 together with packer and guide. 



The waters of the creek were turned at the same point at which 

 the Sierra Club obtained its trout the year previous, on the 20th, 

 and part of the 1500 trout secured, the balance being caught the 

 following day. The trout, ranging in size from one to three and 

 one-half inches, were placed in ten lo-gallon milk cans and packed 

 two cans to the animal. The party camped on the return trip at 

 Portugue Meadows the night of the 21st, and arrived at Lone 

 Pine on the 22nd. 



At Lone Pine the expedition was subdivided, Mr. Hall and 

 Mr. McMurray proceeding by pack with one-half of the fish to 

 Independence. From this point they followed the wagon road 

 to the old Kearsarge Mine, thence by trail over Kearsarge Pass, 

 an altitude of 11,623 feet, and around Bullfrog Lake; continued 

 to Charlotte Lake and from there north to Gardner Creek. 



Parts of the trail were very steep and at times almost undis- 

 cernible, yet the trip of eighty-five miles was made with a loss 

 of less than ten per cent of the fish. 



