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Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station

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Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station
Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station
Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station
Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station
Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station
Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station
Phone:
+1 907-733-2231

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday9am - 4:30pm
Tuesday9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday9am - 4:30pm
Thursday9am - 4:30pm
Friday9am - 4:30pm
SaturdayClosed


Walter Harper was an Alaska Native mountain climber and guide. On Saturday, 7 June 1913, he was the first person to reach the summit of Denali , the highest mountain in North America. He was followed by the other members of the small expedition team, guide Harry Karstens, Episcopal archdeacon Hudson Stuck, who had organized the effort, and Episcopal missionary Robert Tatum. After gaining more formal education, Harper married in 1918 and planned to go to medical school in Philadelphia. He and his wife took the steamer SS Princess Sophia from Skagway to Seattle for their honeymoon before setting off cross-country. The ship ran aground on a reef in a snowstorm, and was broken up in a gale, sinking on October 25. All 268 passengers and 75 crew were lost.
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