Polar Priorities: The Annual Publication of the Frederick A. Cook Society

This Special Supplement to the pro-Cook controversy regarding Frederick Cook’s claimed ascent of Mt. McKinley/Denali takes to task Robert Bryce, Dennis Rawlins, and Bradford Washburn who have all claimed that Cook did not make the first ascent of Denali. The six articles are:

• The DIO Genesis & One-sided Media ‘Controversy’


• Forgotten Prelude: The 1903 Circumnavigation


• Ignoring the Pegasus Sketch in Cook’s Diary


• Fake Peak I: Browne Blow Away by Balch, 1910


• Fake Peak II: The East Side of Mount McKinley, 1956


• Fake Peak III: The Rehash to Fit the Model, 1998