GRANT PEARSON TELLS HIS STORY IN 'MY LIFE OF HIGH ADVENTURE'
Northern Lights over the
land of the Malemutes—Alaska
and the wilderness thas is home
to Grant Pearson is the setting
for tales of courage and endur
ance.
“My Life of High Adventure," is
the true life adventure story of
Grant Pearson, one of Alaska's best
known, latter day pioneers. Phil
ip Newill, author, outdoorsman, and
advertising writer collaborated in
the preparation of this book.
Grant Pearson went to Alaska in
1925 to find the life he'd dreamed
about as a Michigan farm boy.
Thirty-five years in Alaska, he
served twenty-five in the national
park service as Ranger, Chief Rang
er and Superintendent of Mt. Mc
Kinley National Park. As a mem
ber of the famous 1932 Lindley-Liek
expedition, he was in the second
party ever to reach the top of Mt.
McKinley and the first ever to scale
both its twin peaks.
As he recounts his pioneering
days in Alaska, Pearson tells how
he learned to live with Mother Na
ture and sometimes even outsmarted
her. Pearson, as a ranger, often
| lived alone for weeks at a time in
I isolated stations. He learned how to
build a log cabin and tells how it's
done, from clearing the ground to
opening the front door—with a saw.
Pearson's “neighbors'’ in the
wilderness introduced him to a
deepfreeze that long predated Clar
; ence Birdseye. A tunnel into per
J manently frozen ground proved to
! be an efficient freezer for pies,
i meats and vegetables. Winter water
I supplies were stacked in the form
I of ice cakes outside the door.
The lessons recounted in My Life
of High Adventure are many; high
over deep snow at night, when the
top has been encrusted by the cold;
rub frostbite with bare hands, now
with snow; there is little danger of
permanent injury from snow blind
ness.
These, and others, were prelim
inary lessons. The big one came with
the scaling of McKinley, when
Pearson learned that “a mountain
is never climbed until you are
safely down it.”
A mountain sets ingenious traps
. . . Unless you back down, a steep
slope is more dangerous going down
than going up.” Pearson learned
these lessons the hard way when,
while descending McKinley, he
nearly plunged to his death and wras
trapped in a crevasse until he could
be milled to safety.
All the risks wrere worth it. even
; though the 23-day upward struggle
had put him on top of North Amer
ica for a mere 30 minutes.
“When you finally get to the top."
he writes in My Life of High Ad
venture, "there's a special sense of
elation and excitement, a fine, free
feeling that you, and your com
panions, standing there with you.
are the most important people in
the world.”
And then there's that surge of
loneliness.
"... I wandered away from the
rest ... I wanted to be alone for
part of those 30 minutes, to savor
them—30 minutes of triumph after
years of dreaming that began when
I was a boy sitting on a stump in
Michigan reading exciting tales of
Alaska.”
Grant Pearson is now a member of
the Alaskan legislature, represent
ing the district that includes the
park, his stamping grounds for 35
years of high adventure. When he's
not at a legislative session in
Juneau, he lives in Ncnana.
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