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I climb for pleasure, for the wonderful views and the vigorous exertion, for the relaxation of a complete change for mind and body, and because of th… - Dora Keen
" "I climb for pleasure, for the wonderful views and the vigorous exertion, for the relaxation of a complete change for mind and body, and because of the inspiration to the spirit. To combine exploration with must, no doubt, so increase the interest as to well repay the augmented difficulties. All I would emphasize is that to climb anywhere repays the effort, even if it must be within reach of civilization and where others have gone before. To me there is ample reward in the uplift of the spirit; in the moral discipline, the keen interest, and the training to think, of a hard battle carefully planned, in the satisfaction of a love of adventure, and in the invigorating physical exercise.
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(June 24, 1871 – January 31, 1963) was an American traveler, in Europe and North America, photographer, explorer, lecturer, writer, social worker, philanthropist, and women's rights activist. After a failed first attempt with Reuben Frederick McClellan and three other men (but without George William Handy) in 1911, she and George W. Handy became in 1912 the first two people to reach the top of . (In the , Mount Blackburn is called K’ats’ił Ta’aene.) Dora Keen and George W. Handy married in 1916 in and for many years operated a farm in , but eventually divorced after 16 years of marriage. In 1914 she was elected a Fellow of the .
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, 16,140 ft., and latitude 61º 44', is within 60 ft. of the highest of the . The completion of the , 196 miles long, from to the famous of the , in April, 1911, brought Mt. Blackburn tow within 35 miles of civilization. I had gone to Alaska merely to see the wonderful scenery, of the southwest coast, by boat and train, and because I wished to see the only remaining pioneer region of America. Knowing that I should find no Swiss guides in Alaska, I had no idea of doing any serious mountain climbing. Indeed, it was late in July that I first read of Mt. Blackburn, by chance, in a prospector's cabin, in the wilds of the Kenai Peninsula, where I was hunting for a big brown bear. There, in a Report of the United States Geological Survey, Mt. Blackburn was mentioned as never having been ascended, and as "worthy of the hardiest mountaineer."
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