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The Dishonorable Dr. Cook: Debunking the Notorious McKinley Hoax

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* Incorporates never-before-published and hard-to-find information

* Showcases eight breathtaking, up to now unpublished photos by Bradford Washburn



For 50 years, celebrated mountaineer Bradford Washburn was once obsessed with Frederick Cook’s claim to have been the first to achieve the summit of Mount McKinley in 1906. Washburn’s conclusion: Cook was once a fraud. On the very least Frederick Cook was once a showman of outsized proportion. The Dishonorable Dr. Cook tells the tale of the colorful Cook — what kind of man he was once, why he staked his reputation on a flimsy story, and why such a lot of people have been anxious to debunk his claims. Other details of Cook’s checkered career are also included, such as his role in Peary’s unsuccessful expedition to the North Pole in 1892-1893, his own amazing circumnavigation of McKinley in 1903, and his determination to be the first to achieve the North Pole. Cook’s account of the 1906 McKinley ascent is described, followed by evidence against it.



Most compelling, on the other hand, are the side-by-side comparisons of Cook’s original photos with Washburn’s an identical ones, taken decades later, from locations very different than Cook alleged. Washburn’s name is all but synonymous with Mount McKinley, and his skill in recreating the photos is incomparable.


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