Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — Scaled Mount Ararat. [ARTICLE]

Scaled Mount Ararat.

Mount Ararat in Armenia is now generally believed to have been the spot where Noah left the ark. Not until 1829 did a mountain climber succeed in scaling its steep assent Doctor Parrot,. an Englishman, achieved that distinction. For centuries the mountain had defied the efforts of mountain climbers, and the Christian eccloßiactlcs of Armenia asserted, as an article of faith, that Jehovah had made the peak his earthly home, and that no human could possibly reaeh the top and escape divine vengeance. When Doctor Parrot declared that he had accomplished the ascent the priests refused to believe him and they cling to this attitude of skepticism in spite of the fact that dozens of explorers since have stood on the top of the Greater Ararat and gazed out over Armenia from an altitude of 17,000 feet.