Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1909 — COOK DIDN’T SCALE M’KINLEY, SAYS CHUM [ARTICLE]

COOK DIDN’T SCALE M’KINLEY, SAYS CHUM

Columbia Professor, Member of Party, Calls Story False. Portland, Me., Nov. SO.—Porfessor K. C. Parker of Columbia university brands Dr. Frederick A. Cook’s story of his ascent of Mount McKinley as false. Professor Parker says: "It is with profound regret that I feel obliged to impeach the manhood and honor of a personal friend. Dr. Frederick A. Cook never made the ascent of Mount McKinley as he has claimed. “My experience on that trip with Cook demonstrated that he knew nothing about, mountain climbing and had no scientific training. It was in the middle of August when we parted. His last words to me were that he simply wanted to hunt a little and look over some of the nearby glaciers. I came home and you may judge of my surprise when one month later he telegraphed that he had reached the summit of Mount McKinley. “In proof of his startling assertion ne offered nothing whatever. The statement was an impossibility on its facV