The Ascent of Denali: A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America

Hudson Stuck was the Episcopalian Archdeacon of the Yukon. With three companions he made the first ascent of Mt. McKinley-the 20,320 foot tall sount summit of Denali. They statrted in March, arrived at the approaches in April, and by May they were at their base camp, where a late storm kept them in their tents for three weeks readig Shakespeare, history, theology, philisophy, and science. They reached the summit near mid-day on June 7, 1913.

Hudson Stuck (1863 - 1920) was an Episcopal priest and mountain climber in the United States. Born in London, Stuck moved to Alaska in 1904, where he served as the Archdeacon of the Yukon. Stuck authored several other books about adventures in Alaska, including "Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled" and "Voyages on the Yukon and its Tributaries."