The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-08-26
THE TWO HIGHEST SUBMITS IN
The WORLD.
A First Glimpse of IA Mighty aud My--
teriOus Range Most Hcnark BILE
Mountain Feat ON Record.

teriOus Range Most Remarkable
Mountain Feat ON Record.
Mr.. Clement, Markham must forgive
US for borrowing his admirable title, but
no other words can so ttlS de>criur that
part Of the earth which MAS reached last
wear by MIR. W W Graham, the lIima-
lavan Traveller who described his re-
marhHbe journey in a paper read before
the Geographical Society last week.
Mr.. Graham made several cNtraordi-
nary a>ceuts and in the greatest of these
reached Il point higher by seventeen
hundred feet than had ever before been
attained GA the earth surface He
showed that men, or Al all events some
men, can breath and climb with perfect
ease at height AT which II has been
generally thought that respiration must
hc impedcd and much oppression felt;
and, standing near the threshold of that
uncNplored and previously unap-
preached region which is certainly the
nghtiest 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. hut
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 il necessary to state some facts
well established, but not popularity
known. respecting Hmalavan gcogra.
ply. The great range running north
west and southeast in which rise Mount
Everest kangchinianga and Dhaolagri,
is not. as might naturally be supposed
the true divide Of that part Of the CONT
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