1893 wood stake ladder for first ascent of Devils Tower, restored 1972. Black Hills, Wyoming, USA.
The 1893 wood stake ladder for the first ascent of Devils Tower (by Willard Ripley) was restored 1972. The last known use of the ladder was in 1927 by daredevil Babe "The Fly" White. In 1972, the Park Service removed what was left of the bottom section, and restored the top 140 feet of the ladder, shown here. Devils Tower is a butte of intrusive igneous rock exposed by erosion in the Bear Lodge Mountains, part of the Black Hills, in Devils Tower National Monument, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, Wyoming, USA. Devils Tower (aka Bear Lodge Butte) rises dramatically 1267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet from base to summit, at 5112 feet above sea level. Devils Tower was the first United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
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