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Mauna Kea, the highest of Island peaks

Author:
Gartley, Alonzo, Sheridan, Sol N.
Title:
Mauna Kea, the highest of Island peaks
Periodical:
Mid-Pacific Magazine
Year:
1911
Volume:
2
Pages:
402-411
Subject:
Lake Waiau photographs Mauna Kea Adze Quarry Mauna Kea description and travel Mauna Kea photographs Snow
Summary:
Sol N. Sheridan's account of ascending Mauna Kea on horseback from the ranch station. "... At the highest point, an elevation of 13,825 feet, a mound of rocks is built and in this a can lies that contained lists of the names of those who, in recent years, had climbed the mountain, and deposits of silver money made toward a fund for a monument there... We then and there perfected the organization of the Mauna Kea Association, Limited, and elected Joseph G. Pratt president, Eben P. Low secretary and collector, and A. L. C. Atkinson treasurer. ... It was determined that any person who has made the ascent of Mauna Kea shall be eligible for membership upon proof..." "Afterwards, when we had the coldest drink I have ever taken in these islands, from a mountain spring at an elevation of 10,500 feet that is probably seepage from the Crater Lake (Lake Waiau)..." Contains photographs with captions "Snow on Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi, in July" (also appeared in Mid-Pacific magazine 1912 v4 n6 as "The summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi");
Label:
Mauna Kea - Early Accounts
URL:
https://hdl.handle.net/10524/35372
Date:
1911
Collection:
Periodicals