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Members of the Centennial
Expedition depart from
Wonder Lake on June 8. (Photo courtesy Tom Walker)
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Among the many events this
year commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the first ascent of Mount
McKinley, the most ambitious is without question the Denali Centennial 2013
Expedition. Ken Karstens, Ray Schuenemann, Dan Hopkins, Sam Tatum, Dana Wright,
and Sam Alexander are climbing Denali this month. All are descendants of or are
representing the original 1913 team: Karstens and Shuenemann are descendants of
Harry Karstens, Hopkins of Hudson Stuck, Tatum of Robert Tatum, and Wright of
Walter Harper. Alexander is representing John Fredson and Esaias George, Alaska
Native teenagers who maintained the base camp for the 1913 expedition.
Also, see here for Diana
Campbell’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner article about the climbers.
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For the first time in
history, descendants of all six original participants in the 1913 expedition of
Mount McKinley gathered outside the Denali Visitor Center on June 7. (NPS Photo
by Charlotte Bodak)
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