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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



be reckoned with by future explorers of the Alaskan wilds. A 

 number of good photographs are scattered through the volume, 

 including a frontispiece of Mt. McKinley. W. F. B. 



After reviewing The Shameless Diary of an Explorer it is 

 some satisfaction to be able to record the successful first ascent 

 of Mt. McKinley by Professor Frederick A. Cook, M. D., on the 

 sixteenth of September, 1906. An excellent account of the ascent, 

 written by Professor Cook, will be found in Harper's Monthly 

 Magazine, May, 1907. The altitude of the mountain was found to 

 be 20,391 feet. Edward Barille made the ascent with Professor 

 Cook. One night they camped in a hole dug into the snow on a 

 sixty-degree slope, and at an altitude of 14,200 feet. 



This illustrated annual has just been 

 The Alpine Journal p^^Hshed by the Alpine Club of Canada. 



In addition to some ten mountaineering 

 articles by climbers of experience, and 

 scientific papers on "Glacier Observations," with maps, there are 

 special contributions by Sir Sandford Fleming, K. C. M. G., on 

 "Journeys Through the Mountains Thirty-seven Years Ago" ; by 

 Mr. A. O. Wheeler, F, R, G. S., on "The Canadian Rockies as a 

 Mountaineering Field" ; and by Ralph Connor, a humorous sketch 

 of "Amateur CHmbing." It is announced that there will be no 

 reprint of this annual,* and that the price will advance as the 

 supply decreases. E, T. P. 



The American Alpine Club has begun the 

 Alpina Americana. p^^Hcation of a systematic illustrated 

 work presenting monographs of the Alpine Mountains of the 

 Western Hemisphere. The first number was issued early in 

 1907, and was a masterly presentation of the High Sierra by 

 Professor J. N. Le Conte, a leading authority on this region. 



The work will be a handsomely printed quarto, the trimmed 

 page measuring 10^2 by 13^^ inches. The illustrations will form 

 a striking feature; not only will they be numerous, but many of 

 them of the impressive size permitted by so large a page. So far 

 as the conditions of high Alpine photographing permit, the 

 half-tones will be of the best workmanship. Professor Le Conte's 

 own photographs furnished the beautiful illustrations of the 

 initial number. It also contained a lithograph copy of the author's 

 new map of the Sierra Nevada. 



The several numbers of this series will form a volume that no 

 lover of mountains can afford to be without. 



* The Alpine Journal of Canada. Published by the Alpine Club of Can- 

 ada, Mrs. H. J. Parker, Secretary, i6o Furby Street, Winnipeg, Man. Vol. 

 I. Price, paper, 75 cts. ; cloth, $2.00. 



