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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 10053496, member: 301&quot;]<font size="6"><b>Harper Lodge Opens in Denali Park</b></font></p><p>By FRANK RILEY</p><p>June 28, 1987 12 AM PT</p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-28-tr-133-story.html#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-28-tr-133-story.html#" rel="nofollow">Share</a></li> </ul><p>&lt;I&gt; RILEY IS TRAVEL COLUMNIST FOR LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE AND A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR TO THIS SECTION&lt;/I&gt;</p><p>DENALI NATIONAL PARK, Alaska —&nbsp; If Harper Lodge’s logs could speak, what stories they would tell--of the conquest of McKinley’s Peak, and brave pioneers who climbed and fell.</p><p><br /></p><p>The logs were silent, but there were eloquent voices to speak for them during the evening of May 29.</p><p><br /></p><p>The evening was the formal grand opening for the first summer season of Harper Lodge at Denali National Park, but it was above all a tribute to the memory of Walter Harper. At the age of 21, Harper, the son of an Athabascan Indian mother and Irish father, became the first climber to reach the 20,320-foot summit of Mt. McKinley, highest peak in North America and possessor of a greater vertical relief than Mt. Everest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nice size tourist pole .... of reasonable quality...</p><p><br /></p><p>if made in Canada.... it must have been made close by , but it has an Alaskan look to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>here is the pole it&#039;s based on..... and with no siggy on yours...I&#039;d say this was produced often as a gift shop mainstay..</p><p><br /></p><p>.</p><p><a href="https://fdrlibrary.tumblr.com/post/179658012774/nativeamericanhistorymonth" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://fdrlibrary.tumblr.com/post/179658012774/nativeamericanhistorymonth" rel="nofollow">https://fdrlibrary.tumblr.com/post/179658012774/nativeamericanhistorymonth</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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