The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-10-11
HAHNvILLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER II. 1884.

sibly there is one TACT hitherto unnoticed
which may serve partly to explain it,
1t may be remembered that Mr.. WhymA
per, when first on Chimborazo, suffered
greatly from the rarified air; but that in
a short time he grew quite accustomed
to If, and felt no more trouble. Mr..
Graham and his companions had to
cross extremely arduous passes, with
coils as high as eighteen thousand feet to
get to their mountains. They were,
therefore, thoroughly trained, and, to a
certain extent, Injured to the effect OF
thin air. At the same time it is now
obvious that the universal effect of thin
air on the human frame has been much
exaggerated; that, at attitudes where it
has been hitherto thought that any one
must feel most faint and weak, young
and really strong men can do hard
work; and that indisputable fact has
very roughly shaken hypothesis we
had almost said theory-on this subject.
After this attempt on Dunagiri, Mr..
Graham assembled peak 22,515 feet
high, and got to the foot of Mana Dew,
but was prevented from trying it by the
misconduct of his coolies, who deserted
him, and by the hideous difficulty of
the gorge at its base. He left Kumaon
and later on, in the autumn of the year,
revisited Sikkim, where, after ascend
ing Gubonu, 21,300 feet high, he and
his companions accomplished what is,
by considerable degree, the most re-
markable mountain on record, as they
reached the summit of Kabru, which,
according to the trigonometrical survey
of India, is 81, 105 feet above the level
of the sea. Marvellous, however, as
their achievement was, the ascent of the
mountain is not, to our mind, so re-
markable as the view to which it gave
them of the unknown region. On the
lower summit, 23,700 feet high, and
only $500 feet, therefore, below Mount
Everest, they were able to see over its
northern shoulder mountain tops which
its huge spurs had previously hidden
from all others. At this point Mr.. Ora
ham pointed out Everest to Emil Boss
as the highest mountain in the world.
'"That cannot be, said Boss, chose are
higher pointing to two peaks which
lowered far above the second and more
distant range, and showed over the
northern slope of Everest. Looking
carefully, the two agreed. Of course,
all three may have been wrong, but it
is extremely impossible that such prac-
ticed observers were wrong, and more
over, as the peaks were farther off than
Mount Everest, if they seemed higher
than that mountain, they must in real
ity be considerably higher. Emil Boss
has assured the present writer that he
has no doubt whatever on the subject,
and that he should be glad to conduct
an Indian survey to the point from
which he could observe the range, feel
ing certain as to the result of observa-
ton. There can then be no real ground
for hesitation in accepting Mr.. Ora
HAMS statement, and very striking are
the results of his expedition in the Hima-
layas. He and his companions got into
the very heart of the chain, and made,
under circumstances of considerable
difficulty, some daring and most re-
markable expeditions, and, having APP
preached the threshold of the unknown
region, they saw the great peaks of the
highest range ON the surface of the
earth, concerning which we know at
present considerably less than we do of
the mountains in the moon. SATURDAY.
ReUIeaO.