The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-08
TRTY-THREE
L.NGPo VALLEY 1UNcHNJANGA.

yor reach The altitude of Kun
chinjanga. II is more than mile and
half higher than Mount Mckinley.
the giant of Alaska, and Mount Ever
est. 1000 feet above 1t. caps the world
i have seen all the greatest noun,
tains of the globe. AS boy walked
across the Alps from Italy to SwitZer-
land and climbed the glaciers of Mount
Blanc. Later i visited almost every
part of our Rocky Mountain plateau,
and during trips toA Asia saw the
mighty hills of Hawaii and The Philip
pines. AS a newspaper correspondent,
/ Travelled through the Andes from
a year or so ago that 1 was writing
letters for you on the highlands OF
Africa under the shadows of Mount
keuia and Mount Kilrnanjaro.
OF all the great heights ! find the
Hinalayas the most difficult to de-
scribe. Their grandeur is oppressive
and their immensely beyond human
conception. And still, they are not
the most beautiful. The finest of tho
worlds mountains in point of form and
symmetry are Fujiyaina, in eastern
Japan; Mount Cook, IN northern New
Zealand Mount Moyon, the chief vol
cano of southern Luzon, and our own
Mount Tacoma. on the shores of Puget
Sound AS to glaciers, those of the
Hiinalayas are greater than the Ice
rivers of the Alps They surpass in
size the glaciers Of New Zealand, and,
j doubt not. those OF Alaska as Well
There are glaciers here which are from
thirty to sixty miles long, and one In
particular which is thirty-three miles
in length and thanked on either side by
giant peaks, each more than five miles
in height. These glaciers are noun
tains OF ice, often as ragged and rug.
ged as the snow-capped peaks hang
ing over them.
Above the Clouds.
The Himalayas might be called THE
father of India. They protect the coun.
try. and it is largely due to them that
il is able to support one-iifth of the
human race. They extend like mighty
wall across Hindustan, shutting 1t ont
from the rest of Asia. This wall is
intensely cold. and against it come the
warm winds loaded with the moisture
of the Indian Ocean. AS they strike II
the moisture condenses and falls down
in floods, watering the great plains
below. There Is no place on the globe
w
the Himalaya Mountains, H9re al
Darjeeling it is more than 500 inches 4
year, and there are other regicaS Where
there are fifty feet of rain every
twelve months.
These winds keep the greater par'
of the mountains enyeloped in clouds
and this adds TO the beauties of the
scenery The Himalayas have thou
sand clouds where the Alps have one
and as YOU ride through them you sec
clouds Of all kinds and shapes chas-
ing each other over the hills. TheS
crawl up the sides Of the valleys. theS
climb to Your feet and wrap them
selves around you. For ten minutes
the mist is so thick that YOU car
hardly see the ears of the horse you
are riding Then all at once YOU burst
out into the open. y cloud mas gone
by and it floats up toward the SHOWS
In my ride to Tiger Hill | hat
clouds above and below me, and
could see the ghostly masses of vapo,
ing a sesta. As the sun came up Il
unged them With fire. spotting thu
mountains With gold, At the same
time there We're opalesccnt clouds al
my right, my left, and clouds over
head, above which at the breaks. ths
snowy peaks could be seen,
On the Mountain Railway.
In coming here from Calcutta rod,
most OF the way through the clouds
The sun was at it's hottest when ",
passed out OF the plains OF the Gange.
md came to the footEdf the mountains
Tho way up was all lights ant
shodows; Now the sun shone an,
now the rain came down In torrents