Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-06
ing, in the Alps and places of that
kind is child's play compared to It,
LOVES THE DANGER.

Mountain climbing is my recrea-
ton | love the danger and the eX-
element which are its accOmpani-
ments, 1t is among the mountains of
Northern India that the greatest field
for this sport exists and SO Dr.
Workman and ! go there every year
W shall not stop content with the
conquest of Nun Kun, you may be
sure she added The field for the
man or woman who longs for fresh
mountain triumphs in India is almost
unlimited, and believe 1t will not be
a very long time before the doctor and
l make a new record
DR.. Workman IS not man of strik-
ing physique. He is rather below the
medium height He wears snectacles
and his hair is getting spare at the
top. He is about the last man one
would pick out in crowd as the
worlds greatest mountain climber
title. by the way which he wouIu
himself Indignantly repudiate, for he
has a horror of being lionzed In any
way-but the laps have shown us that
size affords no measure of man
staying powers. pluck and endurance
Ii is those qualities that count In GET
ting TO the top OF stupendous noun
tains where the raretied air greatly IN
tensifies the fatigue of the sllghtes
exertiou II was difficult to get Or.
Workman to talk about his feats. He
seemed TO fear too much would be
made of them.
STREETS JUST AS DANGEROUS.
"Of course there Is danger in climb
ing these great Himalayan peaks, nc
said--'danger of being crushed be-
meath an avalanche. danger of being
overwhelmed by a snowstorm ana
frozen 10 death, danger of missing u
footstep and falling SO far that every
hone of ones body would be broken.
But frankly, on two on three occa-
slons | have had closer shaves Tor my
life In crossing London streets than /
was ever conscious of in the lima
layas. i have been nearly run over
more than once and the experience
made a more vivid impression upon
me pfSdeath narrowly escaped than
ANYTHING that has befallen me when
ascending unexplored mountain sum
mits.
II said something of that sort To an
interviewer i'm Paris. He had glfted
imagination He made me say that |
preferred living among the half men,
half beasts OF the Himalayan glaciers
than In many parts OF Paris and Lon
don. That ridiculous statement was
widely published over here and | sup
nose has been reproduced In America
told the doctor that would give
publicity to his denial OF H. Iheh
asked him what he ana MIS- WORE
man found 80 attractive In climbing
high mountains that they betook
. themselves 10 II year after year.
NOT AFTER RECORDS.
II. H. difficult TO make anyone who
has had no experience of II undef-
stand where the fascination Hes. ne
answered. The view from these lotty
SUBMITS is something so indesciibabS
grand that | could not begin 10 give
vou an idea of Il. You seem TO have
All creation spread before YOU II re-
DAYS one a hundred fold FOR the lniI
and trouble expended, And the scien-
tlnc observations for which u aHords
opportunities are extremely mterest'ls,
The chance of making record m
mountain climbing Is the least part OF
the attractions of the Hlmalayas Tor
us we don't go there for that pur-
pose" al.
"But you have made them?"
yes. but that has been merely IN
cidentaL' an, oh.,,,,,
make some more there2'
~ never discuss our mountaineering
ing projects in advance said me DOC
Tor dryly. III you announce that you
are going to do something big IN thai
way you may have 10 confess nller-
wards that you failed To 40 ~ Inul
lsn't pIeasani. Therefore, ! never say
anything about what we expect 10 40
Three men are now ON their way 20
india, I have heard. intent on climbing
higher In The Himalayas than We nave
Vel climbed. II they succeed ! shall
certainly not grudge them their trl-
umphs. But the highest submits are
moi always the most difficult TO ascend.
nut for those who regard the record as
Tho great attraction the Hlmalayas Of
m connection. Mount Everest ii 90
900 feet high. ! rather doubt II any
hody win ever succeed in climbing 10
thc TOP OF that. ! should say that Co.
600 feet Is about the limit that Is like
iy 20 be reached in my time at least
IA il the increasing rarity OF the air
that offers the great obstacle 10 prog
rsss as one mounts higher ana higher