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 from accompanying notes. "Rest stop between Camps 1 and 2. It is here where we changed from skis to crampons on each trip between Camps 1 and 2." Several men climbing a trail. They have left their skis, poles and backpack with a...
Title taken from caption. View of four military personnel on an ice slope during a training exercise in Alaska. From verso: "First Sgt. Alexander Bjornstal demonstrates to Pvt. First Class Jimmy Flores how to stop a slide down an ice slope by...