St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-08-23
THE TWO HIGHEST SUBMITS IN
THE WORLD.

A First Glimpse of Mighty and MEW-
Gerioua Ramge-Most Remarkable
Mountain Feat on Record
Mr.. Clements Markham must forgive
us for borrowing his admirable title, but
no other words can so fifty describe that
part of the earth which was reached last
wear BY Mr.. w. w. Graham, the Hima-
Gayan traveller, who described his re-
markable Journey in paper read before
the Geographical Society last week.
Mr.. Graham made several eXtraordi-
nary ascents, and in the greatest Of these
reached a point higher by seventeen
hundred feet than had ever before been
attained on the earth's surface He
showed that men, or at all events some
men, can breath and climb with perfect
ease at height at which it has been
generally thought that respiration must
be impeded and much oppression felt;
and, standing near the threshold Of that
unexplored and previously unap-
preached region which is certainly the
mirhtiest mountain district ON our globe,
he described two SUBMITS higher than
that which has hitherto been supposed
TO be the highest peak in the world, but
must now, to use the graceful American
expression which he has 50 aptly quoted,
take back seat
To explain the significance of what he
did it is necessary to state some facts
well established, but not popularity
known, respecting Himalayan geogra-
phy. The great range running north
west and southeast, in'whi"h rise Mount
Everest, Kangchinianga and Dhaolagiri,
e ~, ,, +17,@o I1Jy hn cr1nppGpH
the true divide Of that part of the conti-
nent. In places rivers cut completely
through it, flowing from some range be-
hind which must constitute the true
watershed. Now it is scarcely possible
to doubt that this inner range is in the
main higher than what we know as the
'Himalayas; and, although it may not be
absolutely certain, lit is, to say the least,
extremely probable that some OF its
peaks are higher than the Hottest of the
outer chain. That higher peaks than
any vet measured might be found north
of Mount Everest occurred some time
do to General Thuiller, and there have
been other surmises as to their existence,
and even vague statements of wonderful
submits having been seen; but until MIR.
Grahan's expedition nothing was
known respecting these supreme noun
tains that could. in the widest sense of
the word, be called definite. That trav-
eler. as need hardly be said. made no
a*temp6 to reach the unknown range;
and indeed, to do so with Napel and
,Tbibet closed, as they are now, would
BE almost impossible. His object was
TO explore and ASCEND some OF the
higher Himalayas, and it was IN the
course of his exploration that he drew
near to the threshold of the unknown
region, and at . great height saw q
second and higher range with two sum-
mits, to all seeming hotter than Mount
Everest. How long it may be before
tanv traveller reaches even the foot of
one of them it IS impossible 20 say; bat
N getting well within sight OF them MIR.
Graham has done more than any one
has ever done before, and it would be
difficult to find in modern travel an in
cident more striking than this first
glimpse of the heart OF the mighty and
mysterious range.
The ascent of KabFyl, from which he
saw these SUBMITS, was the last which
he made in the Himahyas, and was in
deed the eliminating feat of his expedi-
ton. The previous part of 1t, however,
had been full of interest, and the trav-
eler certainly showed great enterprise
and courage, and very remarkable pow
.ers of endurance. His first ascent was
made in Sikkim, where, starting from
the summit of the Kangla Pass, leading
into Napal, he made this first attack on
the Himalayas, ascending peak which
he estimated as being over twenty thou.
sand feet high. After this he reached
the great glacier which flows east from
Kangchiniania, and then he returned &c
lower ground. His next exploit was in Ku.
moan, whittier he went with the famous
.GrindeIWald mountaineer, Herr Emil
Boss, and the excellent guide, Ulrich
Kaufman, to aid him. In his first at
tempt in this direction he failed, but
failed magnifcently, as on Dunagiri.
20, 1856 feet high, he reached an eleTa-
ton Of quite %, 700 feet before pitilest
storm made further progress impossible
Such height had never been attained
on the earSh's surface before, and, &C
oordfng to commonly accepted beliefs
the climbers should have suffered great
" from the rarity of the air. 1t ap
pears. however, that they did not suffel
at all. Mr.. Graham says that head
aches. nausea, bleeding at the nose ant
temporary loss of sight and hearing
were conspicuous only by their absence
and that the only organ perceptiblT af