Alaska Film Archives - UAF | Climbing expedition takes off from Anchorage, 1947 @alaskafilmarchives | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Explorer Bradford Washburn and other climbers pack supplies and take off from Lake Hood or Lake Spenard in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1947. Their final destination was a glacier on the side of Denali, then known as Mt. McKinley, from which they would offload supplies and begin the climb on foot to the peak. Other climbers on the 1947 expedition (although not seen in this clip) included Barbara Washburn, who would achieve the first recorded ascent of Denali by a woman (Color/Silent/film).
This clip is from film AAF-9383 from the Bradford Washburn collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information, please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
Explorer Bradford Washburn and other climbers pack supplies and take off from Lake Hood or Lake Spenard in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1947. Their final destination was a glacier on the side of Denali, then known as Mt. McKinley, from which they would offload supplies and begin the climb on foot to the peak. Other climbers on the 1947 expedition (although not seen in this clip) included Barbara Washburn, who would achieve the first recorded ascent of Denali by a woman (Color/Silent/film).
This clip is from film AAF-9383 from the Bradford Washburn collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information, please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
