Title taken from caption. Alan May poses for a photograph wearing a kamlayka, and holding a pair of snowshoes and mukluks. May explains receiving these gifts in the following journal entry, dated July 20th: "Agefangle Prokopioff brought in a pair...
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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Title taken from verso. View of Harold Gillam, pilot, standing in front of airplane on skiis in Alaska. Photographer's number 37. Original photograph size: 3" x 4 1/2".
Winter view of man wearing fur parka and pants standing with wolf carcass in front of Wien Alaska Airlines airplane on skiis, possibly in northern Alaska. Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".