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Denali: Deception, Defeat, & Triumph : To the Top of the Continent/Conquest of Mount McKinley/the Ascent of Denali
The stories of the fake, the almost, and the actual first ascent of North America's highest peak are joined in one unabridged volume for the first time.
651 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2001
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Belmore Browne
36 booksBelmore Browne was an artist, writer, explorer, mountaineer, and great proponent of northern outdoor living and wilderness travel. Browne first traveled to Alaska on a family vacation when he was eight years old. He returned there in his early twenties as a member of Andrew Jackson Stone’s mammal-collecting expedition. Browne was part of a group that made the first ascent of Mt. Olympus in Washington. He later made three attempts to climb Alaska’s Mt. McKinley, the highest point in North America, coming very close but falling short each time.
With extensive wilderness experience behind him, Browne went home in 1913 to marry an old friend, Agnes Sibley of Philadelphia, and then live for four years in New York. In 1917 he had the satisfaction of seeing Mount McKinley National Park created. After short service in the first war as captain in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, he returned to civilian life and the family moved to Banff.
In the early thirties his winters were spent in Santa Barbara where he became Director of the Santa Barbara School of Art. From 1938, the winters were spent at Ross, north of Golden Gate, when he was not working elsewhere. Just before the last war he was commissioned to paint several backgrounds for big- game exhibits in the North American Hall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
During World War II Belmore, then in his early sixties, became Air Force instructor in survival procedures, conducting schools in the high mountains of Colorado.
In 1947 the family moved to Seebe, in a log cabin just at the edge of the mountains east of Banff, where not so many people could find them.
Browne died May 2, 1954, from cancer. At the time of his death at age 74, he was working on the dioramas at Yale’s Peabody Museum.
With extensive wilderness experience behind him, Browne went home in 1913 to marry an old friend, Agnes Sibley of Philadelphia, and then live for four years in New York. In 1917 he had the satisfaction of seeing Mount McKinley National Park created. After short service in the first war as captain in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, he returned to civilian life and the family moved to Banff.
In the early thirties his winters were spent in Santa Barbara where he became Director of the Santa Barbara School of Art. From 1938, the winters were spent at Ross, north of Golden Gate, when he was not working elsewhere. Just before the last war he was commissioned to paint several backgrounds for big- game exhibits in the North American Hall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
During World War II Belmore, then in his early sixties, became Air Force instructor in survival procedures, conducting schools in the high mountains of Colorado.
In 1947 the family moved to Seebe, in a log cabin just at the edge of the mountains east of Banff, where not so many people could find them.
Browne died May 2, 1954, from cancer. At the time of his death at age 74, he was working on the dioramas at Yale’s Peabody Museum.
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