---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 22
number: 1
published: 1918-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Our Flag upon the Alps,\" *Improvement Era* 22, no. 1 (November 1918): 2–3."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2201unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2201unse
start_page: 2
end_page: 3
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2201unse
  publication_year: 1918
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Our Flag upon the Alps

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OUR FLAG UPON THE ALPS A peak of Mont Blanc, which for the future will be called Wilson Peak, was formerly the Piltschner Peak, named after a German explorer. The mayor of Chamonix, accompanied by by a great throng of spectators and officials, climbed the peak on August 15 and, while hoisting the American flag, named it Wilson Peak.

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Improvement era Vol. XXII NOVEMBER, 1918 No. 1