Title taken from caption. View of a dead bear being propped up by A.F. "Gus" Nyman, on a rocky beach, Kodiak Island, Alaska. Nyman is identified as the captain of the Nimrod by Robert F. Griggs. In his book "The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes"...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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