Mountaineer. He is the namesake of Mount Carpe, a 12,500-foot mountain summit in the Denali National Park and Preserve. Born in Chicago in 1894, he was the son of Adolph Carpe and Myra Kinney, the maternal grandson of poet Coates Kinney, and a close descendent of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University. While studying in Germany, he developed an affinity for mountain climbing, both in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains. After completing his engineering studies at Cornell and serving in World War I, Carpe participated in an expedition in 1925 that made the first ascent to Mount Logan, the second-highest mountain peak in all of North America. In 1930 and 1931, he became the first person to reach the summits of Mount Bona and Mount Fairweather in Alaska. While on the Rockefeller Cosmic Ray Expedition in 1932 to Mount McKinley, Carpe slipped and fell into a crevasse on Muldrow Glacier, which ended his life. In honor of his mountaineering accomplishments, in 1945, the US Army Test Expedition named Mount Carpe (located in Denali National Park) after him.
Mountaineer. He is the namesake of Mount Carpe, a 12,500-foot mountain summit in the Denali National Park and Preserve. Born in Chicago in 1894, he was the son of Adolph Carpe and Myra Kinney, the maternal grandson of poet Coates Kinney, and a close descendent of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University. While studying in Germany, he developed an affinity for mountain climbing, both in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains. After completing his engineering studies at Cornell and serving in World War I, Carpe participated in an expedition in 1925 that made the first ascent to Mount Logan, the second-highest mountain peak in all of North America. In 1930 and 1931, he became the first person to reach the summits of Mount Bona and Mount Fairweather in Alaska. While on the Rockefeller Cosmic Ray Expedition in 1932 to Mount McKinley, Carpe slipped and fell into a crevasse on Muldrow Glacier, which ended his life. In honor of his mountaineering accomplishments, in 1945, the US Army Test Expedition named Mount Carpe (located in Denali National Park) after him.
Bio by: John L. Poling
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Explorer, lost on Mt. McKinley, Alaska
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Records on Ancestry
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Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922
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New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937
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New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018
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U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925
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New York, U.S., Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919
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