Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-07

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IA, attic Of Asia. under the
..r, eavcs of the roof Of the
- ,.,rid All about me rise the
tho Himalaya mountains,
sl,ery crowns shining ike
,o,5s under the tropical sun. At
...f can look for miles over
..,spifc SUBMITS against rag
,.s1 of perpetual snow II Is the
80. the north. The mountains rise
this wall Here they kiss the sky
..,rs trcy pierce the opalescent clouds
.r5 farther on stand out ragged
srs of silver against the blue That
t-,,.. mass at the north IS Kunchin-
Nih over five miles In height, ana
morning I stood on Tiger Hill
.,y the sun gid the summit Of
,,..rt Everest. which is nearly SIX
20 above the level Of the sea. From
I,gr HI L could count a half dozen
rt one Of which is higher
!tgg the t0pmost point OF the NoTh
,---Irau continent and several OF
Hl..t roach above the height Of any
mart OF the globe. Mount
r ,.l-,.f measures $4,000 feet. Kunch-
&c. 9SI76. Janu 25.3O4 and Gabru
,4s And then there are three
-,rtsfr- In sight Of over $4,000 feet
n are higher than any peak OF
Apde. and in the same vicinity
s-s half dozen others 1900 and
more
THE MIGHTY HGMALAYAs.
% s impossible TO comprehend the
..rsraIfv OF the Himnlaya noun
... Thev are so great that YOU
LA scatter the other mountains Of
,ts world through them and hardly
-rs-f Tho size OF the chain. You could
5r-g the Alps into their valleys. ana
few miles away you could not
..g.s the addition. Mount Everest is.
,taU land. the nearest point toward
,.,.sr Do is more than double the
t..raf nj Fuilvama. the sacred noun
,..r n japan You could put another
prss Peak on the top Of our big
-,sYrfaiu near Denver and II would
ru reach as high and the SHOWS
,.rrrInr Mount Blanc are az least
,tad0 feet lower II YOU should ascend
Mount Blanc and by "a flying ma
Zine go straight upward for more
.,, Two miles YOU would not yet
,.,rr the altitude Of KunchinjanEa
n he more than n mile and half
tfyter than Mount Mckinley, the
g5Tf NJ Alaska. and Mount Everest
thousand feet above Il, caps the
world
,s.rs Of the globe As a boy 7 walked
,--ass the Alus from italy 10 Switz-
s-rsrd and climbed the glaciers Of
Mount Blanc. Later ! visited almost
,rs-, mart Of our Rocky mountain
rsteau and during trips TO Asia saw
iss mighty hills Of Hawaii and the
Philippines As a newspaper CORES
rordent Travelled through the Andes
f-on Panama 10 Patagonia. and IL
mas ONLY a year or so ago that 7 was
writing letters for Won on the high
'11ds of Africa under the shadows Of
Mount KenIa and Mount Kiliman-
hro
Of an the great heights. find the
H.malay8s the most difficult 20 des-
c-be. Their grandeur IS oppressive and
their immensely beyond human con-
ception And STILL they are not the
most beautiful The finest Of the
worlds mountains iu point OF form
and symmetry are Fuilvama, in east
ern Japan Mount Cook. in northern
New Zealand. Mount Moyon. the
chief volcano OF southern Luzon, and
our own Mount Tacoma, on the
shores of Puget sound As to glaciers.
those OF the Himalayas are greater
than the ice rivers Of the Alps. They
Irpass In size the glaciers OF New
Zealand, and. 7 doubt not. those OF
Aaska as well There are glaciers
here which are from thirty 70 sixty
miles long and one in particular
which Is thirtv-three miles IN length
and fanked on either side by giant
peaks each more than five miles In
height These glaciers are mountains
70 ice often as ragged and rugged
a' the snow-cspped peaks hanging
over them
ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
The Himalayas might be called the
father % India. They protect the coun-
n.y. and 10 Is largely due 10 them that
i is able 10 support one-fifth of the
0lman race. They extend Ike a
mighty wall across Hindustan. shutting
] out from the rest OF Asia. This wall
Intensely cold, and against IL come
t' warm winds loaded with the moist
"re Of the Indian ocean. As they strike
= The moisture condenses and falls
down In floods watering the great
palms below. There Is no place on the
globe which has such a rainfall az
parts of The Himalaya mountains. Here
% DarjeolnE IL is more than 500 inches
year. and there are other regions