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44_54	some locations, it provided almost the only reading material around.
44_55	Stuck traveled each winter more than 1500–2000 miles by dogsled to visit the missions and villages.
44_56	In 1908, he acquired the launch called The Pelican, a shallow riverboat. He used it on the Yukon
44_57	River and tributaries to visit the Athabascans in their summer camps, where they fished and hunted.
44_58	He reported that in twelve seasons' cruises, ranging from i,800 to 5,200 miles each summer, he
44_59	traveled a total of up to 30,000 miles along the rivers.
44_60	Stuck wrote and published five books, memoirs of his times in Alaska, in part to reveal the
44_61	exploitation of the Alaska Native peoples that he witnessed in his work. Two of Stuck's books were
44_62	edited by Maxwell Perkins, the legendary Scribner's editor who also edited Ernest Hemingway, F.
44_63	Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe.
44_64	Stuck had experience mountain climbing, including having ascended Mount Rainier in Washington
44_65	state.
44_66	Ascent of Denali
44_67	Stuck recruited Harry Karstens, a respected guide, to join his expedition. Other members were
44_68	Walter Harper and Robert G. Tatum, both 21, and two student volunteers from the mission school,
44_69	John Fredson and Esaias George. They departed from Nenana on March 17, 1913. They reached the
44_70	summit of Denali on June 7, 1913. Harper, of mixed Alaska Native and Scots descent, reached the
44_71	summit first. Fredson, then 14, acted as their base camp manager, hunting caribou and Dall sheep to
44_72	keep them supplied with food.
44_73	The party made atmospheric measurements at the peak of the mountain for purposes of determining its
44_74	elevation. At the summit, their aneroid barometer read 13.175 inches, their boiling-point
44_75	thermometer read 174.9 degrees, their mercurial barometer read 13.617 inches. The alcohol minimum
44_76	recording thermometer read 7 °F. These measurements, with others taken at Fort Gibbon and Valdez,
44_77	were reduced by C. E. Griffin, Topographic Engineer of the United States Geological Survey, to
44_78	produce an elevation for Denali of 20,384 feet. The precise figure measured by the United States
44_79	Geological Survey in 2015 is 20,310 feet.
44_80	They also erected a six-foot high cross at the summit.
44_81	When the party returned to base camp, Stuck sent a messenger to Fairbanks to announce their success
44_82	in reaching the peak of the mountain. His achievement was announced on June 21, 1913, by The New
44_83	York Times and carried nationally.
44_84	Stuck was scheduled to go to New York City in October for a General Convention of the Episcopal
44_85	Church. This gave him another opportunity to talk about the ascent. He was awarded the Back Award
44_86	of the Royal Geographical Society in 1919.
44_87	Later life
44_88	Several of the mission churches established by the Episcopal Church in remote areas of the Interior
44_89	during the early 20th century have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
44_90	Stuck continued to urge Alaska Native youths in their education, helping arrange scholarships and
44_91	sponsors for education in the Lower 48. For instance, John Fredson was the first Alaska Native to
44_92	finish high school and graduate from college. Sponsored by Stuck and the Episcopal Church, he went
44_93	to the University of the South in Tennessee. After returning to Alaska, he developed as a Gwich'in
44_94	leader. In 1941 he gained federal recognition of the Venetie Indian Reserve to protect his people's
44_95	traditional territory. Walter Harper was accepted at medical school in Philadelphia, but died en
44_96	route when his ship sank off the coast of Alaska.
44_97	Stuck worked as a priest in Alaska for the rest of his life, serving both Alaska Natives and
44_98	American settlers. Like many other missionaries, he never married. He died of pneumonia in Fort
44_99	Yukon. By his request, he was buried in the native cemetery there.
44_100	Legacy and honors
44_101	A memorial service was conducted at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City in his
44_102	honor.
44_103	Stuck and the naturalist John Muir are honored with a feast day on April 22 of the liturgical
44_104	calendar of the US Episcopal Church.
44_105	Books Voyages on the Yukon and its Tributaries. 1917.
44_106	A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast. 1920.
44_107	See also Harriet Bedell, Episcopal missionary in Alaska, also honored on liturgical calendar
44_108	References
44_109	Further reading
44_110	David Dean, Breaking Trail: Hudson Stuck of Texas and Alaska (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1988).
44_111	External links
44_112	Hudson Stuck, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, 1914, Internet Archive
44_113	Hudson Stuck, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, 1916, Project Gutenberg
44_114	Hudson Stuck, Voyages on the Yukon and its Tributaries, 1917 (available through google books and
44_115	hathitrust.org)
44_116	Hudson Stuck, The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley), 1918, Project Gutenberg
44_117	Hudson Stuck, Baccaulaureate Sermon Given at Columbia University, 1916 (available through google
44_118	books)
44_119	David M. Dean, "Hudson Stuck biography – Texas State Historical Association
44_120	1865 births 1920 deaths Alumni of King's College London American mountain climbers Anglican saints
44_121	Deaths from pneumonia in Alaska Denali People from Fort Yukon, Alaska
44_122	People of the Alaska Territory Sewanee: The University of the South alumni
45_0	Top Ground Gear Force is a one-off TV special, featuring the cast of BBC's Top Gear, which
45_1	originally aired on BBC Two at 22:00 GMT on 14 March 2008 as part of Sport Relief 2008. It was
45_2	repeated on Easter Monday, 2008.
45_3	It borrowed its format from Top Gear of the Pops, a similar one-off special which aired as part of
45_4	Comic Relief 2007. Whereas Top Gear of The Pops combined Top Gear with Top of the Pops, this
45_5	episode combines the motoring show with Ground Force, a gardening makeover show which ran on the
45_6	BBC from 1998 to 2005.
45_7	Regular Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond take over sportsman Steve
45_8	Redgrave's garden, to dispense advice on creating a zero maintenance lawn, installing an impressive
45_9	water feature and getting rid of unwanted plants. Naturally, disaster ensues. Top Ground Gear
45_10	Force was then included as a page in the 2009 Big Book of Top Gear, giving advice to garden
45_11	problems including concreting the garden over, petrol bombs and flash fires.
45_12	Title screen
45_13	Like Top Gear of the Pops, the title screen and music is changed to suit the programme. Instead of
45_14	having cars in the background, images of gardening were shown instead. The images bore a strong
45_15	resemblance to the Top Gear title screen (e.g. dirt coming out of a spinning pot, similar to a car
45_16	wheel spinning and kicking up water from the ground) Hammond was seen pushing a spade into the
45_17	ground, and then holding it over his shoulder. May was seen holding a wheelbarrow, and breaking a
45_18	gnome in half (in replacement of him pushing a button on a remote control in the Top Gear title
45_19	screen). Clarkson was seen with a pair of open hedge trimmers, which he then snaps shut.
45_20	Ending credits
45_21	The Top Gear ending credits are also adapted to suit the programme's resemblance to Ground Force –
45_22	the presenters' names were listed as Alan Clarkson, Handy Hammond and Charlie May (references to
45_23	Ground Force presenters Alan Titchmarsh, Tommy Walsh and Charlie Dimmock respectively). The rest of
45_24	the crew were all listed as having the first name "Monty". This 'mocking' was also used in special
45_25	editions such as the Top Gear Polar Special, in which the presenters' first names were changed to
45_26	'Sir Ranulph', as a reference to Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
45_27	Title irregularities
45_28	The title Top Ground Gear Force appears during the opening credits and is spoken by the hosts
45_29	throughout the show. However, the insulated jackets worn by the three hosts are silkscreened with
45_30	"TGGGF" on the front chest and "Top Garden Ground Gear Force" on the rear. Other equipment, such as

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some locations, it provided almost the only reading material around.

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Stuck traveled each winter more than 1500–2000 miles by dogsled to visit the missions and villages.

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In 1908, he acquired the launch called The Pelican, a shallow riverboat. He used it on the Yukon

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River and tributaries to visit the Athabascans in their summer camps, where they fished and hunted.

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He reported that in twelve seasons' cruises, ranging from i,800 to 5,200 miles each summer, he

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traveled a total of up to 30,000 miles along the rivers.

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Stuck wrote and published five books, memoirs of his times in Alaska, in part to reveal the

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exploitation of the Alaska Native peoples that he witnessed in his work. Two of Stuck's books were

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edited by Maxwell Perkins, the legendary Scribner's editor who also edited Ernest Hemingway, F.

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Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe.

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Stuck had experience mountain climbing, including having ascended Mount Rainier in Washington

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state.

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Ascent of Denali

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Stuck recruited Harry Karstens, a respected guide, to join his expedition. Other members were

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Walter Harper and Robert G. Tatum, both 21, and two student volunteers from the mission school,

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John Fredson and Esaias George. They departed from Nenana on March 17, 1913. They reached the

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summit of Denali on June 7, 1913. Harper, of mixed Alaska Native and Scots descent, reached the

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summit first. Fredson, then 14, acted as their base camp manager, hunting caribou and Dall sheep to

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keep them supplied with food.

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The party made atmospheric measurements at the peak of the mountain for purposes of determining its

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elevation. At the summit, their aneroid barometer read 13.175 inches, their boiling-point

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thermometer read 174.9 degrees, their mercurial barometer read 13.617 inches. The alcohol minimum

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recording thermometer read 7 °F. These measurements, with others taken at Fort Gibbon and Valdez,

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were reduced by C. E. Griffin, Topographic Engineer of the United States Geological Survey, to

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produce an elevation for Denali of 20,384 feet. The precise figure measured by the United States

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Geological Survey in 2015 is 20,310 feet.

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They also erected a six-foot high cross at the summit.

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When the party returned to base camp, Stuck sent a messenger to Fairbanks to announce their success

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in reaching the peak of the mountain. His achievement was announced on June 21, 1913, by The New

44_83

York Times and carried nationally.

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Stuck was scheduled to go to New York City in October for a General Convention of the Episcopal

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Church. This gave him another opportunity to talk about the ascent. He was awarded the Back Award

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of the Royal Geographical Society in 1919.

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Later life

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Several of the mission churches established by the Episcopal Church in remote areas of the Interior

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during the early 20th century have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Stuck continued to urge Alaska Native youths in their education, helping arrange scholarships and

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sponsors for education in the Lower 48. For instance, John Fredson was the first Alaska Native to

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finish high school and graduate from college. Sponsored by Stuck and the Episcopal Church, he went

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to the University of the South in Tennessee. After returning to Alaska, he developed as a Gwich'in

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leader. In 1941 he gained federal recognition of the Venetie Indian Reserve to protect his people's

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traditional territory. Walter Harper was accepted at medical school in Philadelphia, but died en

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route when his ship sank off the coast of Alaska.

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Stuck worked as a priest in Alaska for the rest of his life, serving both Alaska Natives and

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American settlers. Like many other missionaries, he never married. He died of pneumonia in Fort

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Yukon. By his request, he was buried in the native cemetery there.

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Legacy and honors

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A memorial service was conducted at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City in his

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honor.

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Stuck and the naturalist John Muir are honored with a feast day on April 22 of the liturgical

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calendar of the US Episcopal Church.

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Books Voyages on the Yukon and its Tributaries. 1917.

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A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast. 1920.

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See also Harriet Bedell, Episcopal missionary in Alaska, also honored on liturgical calendar

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References

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