The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-17

The Italian Duke OF the AbruZZi
who is popularity supposed TO have
gone Notwithstanding in india he
cause his folks wouldn't let him marry
an American girl, has arrived at Mar
SeilleS with the scalp OF the highest
mountaln yet climbed by man at his
belt His party ascended Brjght's
Peak in Hlndustan. which is about 2i.-
700 feet in height
On the same day Miss Peck. whose
explicit in ascending Huascaran in
South America has been greatly ex-
aggerated as TO height. published let
ter declaring that since 1900 she has
ceded To Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman
the palm as the champion woman
mountain climber. Mrs BullockWork
mans record is 23,30O feet, also In In.
dia.
Mount Everest is some 29, 500 feet
high II is the shining goal OF every
mountaIn-climber' that lives. 1t is TO
him what the North Pole was 10 Cook
and Peary and n regiment Of men for
300 years before-the top OF the world
II looks easy, standing down in The
valley. TO climb Everest, but it Is pos.
slble that no man Will ever step upon
its crest even from an airship Miss
Peck IN her letter to Mrs. Bullock
Workman alludeS to one reason. 1t
costs a fortune To climb a new noun
tain Of great height To take three
persons up even the old familiar Mont
Blanc or Matterhorn costs some Sl00.
exclusive OF OUTFIT. 70 climb Aeon
cagua f22 SEQ feetl meant for Fitz7er.
aid 4 special expedition with heavy
stores. eighteen months Of effort,
building a line OF supply camnS part
way up the mountain-lDd after al
he never got no himself, though his
Swiss guide did, for the sole reason
that the Swiss could stand the IN e
faction OF the afr up thcTo and Flt1-
gerald could not The last part of
the climb was an easy slope, but he
staggered up II. painting like fish
out OF water or mouse under an air
pump. He never reached Mrs, Bull
lock- Workman 2 level
On the slightly lower mountain
Chlmborazo (2l 1898 feoD WhyEper,
the famous conQueror OF thc Matter
horn, conducted series of expert
ments 10 see If by continued living at
high attitudes men could get used 10
mountain sickness Apparently the,
can TO some extent. but In time the
body gets tired and there is a bad
reaction.
The trouble comes for very strorg
people mainly above $4,000 feet Up
10 1900 or 5000 feet tho effect OF
altitude upon persons wI;h strong
hearts is simply cxhilaratinc.
The new railroad up the Junqfrau
erlp ha.y 81 ght4 Gtorf-
Ing from the compa' atively low alti.
en- In a few hours TO height OF ab'u
10000 feet AZ tho EiSmeer.~ He feels
as IL he owned tho earth. The eXhil ,
aration Is like that Of wine. He d9shcs |
about i'm bigh spirits Dropping down |
again at nightfall the consequent dc :
preston is almcst unbear9ble The |
mans thoughts change to ruin. suicide !
and the hCrelessnesS of the hersat. !
fercd BY English Is soldiers coming |
avoided when tho ascent and descent |
are more gradual Both are noted TO
a less degree on the Pixies Peak rail-
road In Colorado, for the comparative
" high tableland below is something !
OF preparation
Even at that, people set decidedly
frisky on the Peak, no mntter how
staid they mas be below. In Denver.
which Is only some 5000 feet above
sea-level the attendants upon the
Democratic Convention foJnd that IL
takes a smaller amount of whiskcy |
than in New foflt 10 upset a non.
Frisklness vAnishes about 10000 '
feet Above 10000 feet it has never