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...article about Lieut. Zebulon Montgomery Pike [TIME, May 10], you state: "Pike predicted that the summit would never be reached by man. But 14 years later it was scaled (by someone else); in 1835 it was recorded on a map as Pikes Peak...
...River Platte and thence by way of the Arkansas and Red Rivers to the Mississippi. Dr. James became botanist, geologist and surgeon . . . They were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went to the top on the 13th and 14th of July, 1820. From this circumstance it was called James' Peak, and this name is given to it on the map which accompanies the report...
...Lieut. Zebulon Montgomery Pike, leading an expedition through Louisiana Territory, saw in the distance a mountain like "a small blue cloud" rising abruptly from the plains. Pike led three cheers for what he thought were the "Mexican Mountains," and set out a few days later toward the snow-covered summit. Poorly provisioned and clothed, his party was forced to turn back by a roaring blizzard. Pike predicted that the summit would never be reached by man. But 14 years later it was scaled (by someone else); in 1835 it was recorded on a map as Pikes Peak...
...must ascribe to her the marvelous fact," said one of the speakers, Winston Churchill, "that a crippled man, victim of a cruel affliction, was able for more than ten years to ride the storms of peace and war at the summit of the U.S. The debt we owe to President Roosevelt is owed also...
Season highlights still remaining are the dual meet with Yale on April 2, the annual Dartmouth slalom, and, on April 11, the most gruelling downhill race on the continent, the American Inferno, from the summit of Mt. Washington to the bottom of Pinkham Notch...