Mount Mckinley (Denali): Travel the highest mountain of the North America (Part – 2)

By Asad Russel –

After Part – 1

The history and facts of the Mount Mckinley:

From the granite made of primarily, continual shifting undergoes the Mount Mckinley and the North American Plate against pushing the Pacific Plate to the plate tectonics of uplift thanks, per year 1 millimeter it grows.

The west Buttress to the summit is the route of safest. This route take the peak to ascend attempting of climber about 80% to 90%, the top half reaching about with only. But a relative term is safest in the climbing of mountain, on the West Buttress had been killed some mountaineers who were world class. To the summit the halfway, in severity of the North Pole to that is equivalent the weather of Mount Mckinley.

40 degree Fahrenheit may reach the temperatures of nightmare. To the high camp from the base camp, some 16 miles must trek the climbers and some vertical feet of 10,000, two or three weeks which takes a trip. Denali Pass to the 18,200 feet is the ascent the challenging stretch of technically the most, a snow covered slope of steep must cross the climbers and then which called the Football Field a shallow bowl. Then together roped still, itself of the continent the top to reach the snow and ice wall an 800 feet ascend the climbers.

To climb the Mount Mckinley the first attempts made expeditions of two different in 1903. 11,000 feet they reached only. Would try other expeditions the next decade over, and the top to reach fail again. The summit reached by the Hudson Stuck led a team in 1913 finally. A Native Alaskan the Walter Harper to the top was the first person. After the success of the party of Stuck, until 1932 the mountain to climb were made no attempts. Massive glaciers one of the mountain on a small plane landed a pilot. The North Peak of 19,470 feet and the South Peak of 20, 320 feet the both climbed another party for the first time. On the mountain occurred the first deaths more tragically. In February of 1967 of Mount Mckinley the first ascent of winter completed the Alaskans Ray Genet, Art Davidson and Dave Johnston.

In 1990 of 18,733 feet at an altitude of Mount Mckinley near the summit on a ridge a meteorological station installed the Japan Alpine Club. At the University of Alaska Fairbanks to the International Artic Research Center was donated this weather station. At the level of 19,000 feet was placed a weather station in June 2002. By the science community and climbing people for the use in real time to transmit data was designed this station of weather. For the conditions of altitude and the weather of the extreme custom built with the instrumentation have been performed to the equipment the annual upgrades since the establishment of its. In the world the weather station of the third highest is this weather station.

In 2003 on 1^st December of -75.5 degree Fahrenheit or -59.7 degree Celsius a temperature recorded the weather station.        

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