Title from accompanying notes. "Camp 2. Accident at rest stop just below Camp 2. The accident was actually a snow covered crevasse. Pepi, Shige, and Nobu were at the rest stop when the snow bridge collapsed, sending them into the crevasse....
Title from accompanying notes. "Work topside pulling climbers out of the crevasse. Herb Staley, big man in red to left in image, had mountain rescue knowledge and supervised the rescue operation." Men working with ropes and preparations for...
Title from verso. Image shows a man leaning over a grave in the snow on the side of a mountain. A shovel and a wooden pole mark the location of the grave. Theodore Koven's body was discovered near the head of Muldrow Glacier on Mount McKinley...
Title from verso. Theodore Koven's body was discovered near the head of Muldrow Glacier on Mount McKinley by the Lindley-Liek Expedition in 1932. Theodore Koven and Allen Carpe were scientists working on a high altitude cosmic ray research...
Title taken from front. Three well-dressed men with dog peer into crevasse, Valdez Glacier, Alaska. Photo AMHA-b80-41-52 was taken on the same day and features the same people. Photographer's number C215. June 4, 1905. Photographer: P.S. Hunt....
Descriptive Narrative: Playing cards (all original 52) and leather case. White Pass & Yukon Route. Different scenes.
History: Gift of Caryl Sale Krug and John W. Krug, 1998. Collected by William W. Sale and Neeta Tobey Sale, residents of Nome,...
Title from verso. Image shows members of the Lindley-Liek Expedition that made the first successful ascent of both peaks of Mount McKinley in 1932. The men are shown looking for the body of Allen Carpe, who also climbed Mount McKinley in 1932...
Title taken from verso. Full caption on verso reads, "Camp where Koven was found, near head of Muldrow Glacier, photo by Merl LaVoy, Summer 1932, Farquhar Collection." Image shows members of the Lindley-Liek Expedition that made the first...
Title by indexer. Caption on verso says, "LaV. 1932." Image shows three members of the Lindley-Liek expedition approaching two tents near the head of Muldrow Glacier. The Lindley-Liek Expedition made the first successful ascent of both...
Title taken from verso of identical photo (UAF-1981-208-7). Verso reads, "Camp where Koven was found, near head of Muldrow Glacier, photo by Merl LaVoy, Summer 1932, Farquhar Collection." Image shows members of the Lindley-Liek Expedition...
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 donor's caption. Full Title: "1905, in a crevasse in Lakina Glacier, Professor A. E. Seaman at right; Claude (packer) at left." It had been arranged before I left Houghton (MI), that Professor Seamon (a geologist) was to...
Title from slide index prepared by Peter Haase 14 July 2006. "Pete and the Piper Super Cub. Cliff & I took on the initial flight out of Northway. Note the snowshoes tied to the wing struts (not allowed in the southern 48, but in alaska, rules...
Title from accompanying notes. A man attached to a rope on his way out of a crevasse. A pick axe and rope lie below him on the snow and ice that had collapsed.
Title taken from caption. View of crevasse in Knik Glacier in southcentral Alaska. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. 1966-1967? Photographer: William L. McNutt.