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Hudson Stuck
English
Explorer
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The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.
Hudson Stuck,
English
Explorer
#Writer
We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.
Hudson Stuck,
English
Explorer
#Snow
There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.
Hudson Stuck,
English
Explorer
#Feet
#Question
Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.
Hudson Stuck,
English
Explorer
#Fashion
#Name
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
Hudson Stuck,
English
Explorer
#Day
#History
#Writing
#Reading
#Physics
#Geography
A pupil is a great resource.
Hudson Stuck,
English
Explorer
Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
Hudson Stuck,
English
Explorer
#Day
#Being
#First