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Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
11-16-2002
Interview: Brad Washburn and David Roberts discuss the 1937 expedition to climb Mt. Lucania

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In 1937, the highest unclimbed peak in North America was Mt. Lucania. Rising 17,150 feet out of Canada's Yukon wilderness, its summit was defended by monstrous glaciers, roiling ice-cold rivers and sheer remoteness. American mountaineer Walter Wood called Lucania `impregnable' after failing to conquer it in 1935. But in the summer of 1937, two young American climbers, Brad Washburn and ...

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