Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-04-07

many of the mammals the descendants of which
are scattered the earth. Next year the
museum will send out geologists and motion,
picture photographer, and in 1928 archeologistf
and anthropologists will follow.
The Royal Geographical society is pushing ahead
its plans for the conquest of Mount Everest, the
highest mountain in the world, the summit OF
which white man has ever reached. The main
attempt will be made next year. Sir Francis
Younghusband the president of the society, has
announced that Col Howard Bury who has trav.
eled much in Asia, has been chosen to lead this
years expedition with Harold Raeburn in charge
of the actual reconnaissance of the mountain. Mr..
Raeburn has just returned from reconnaissance
of Kangchanjunga, mountain in the Himalayas
with altitude of 2S LAG feet. The society is also
hoping to secure the services next year of Briga-
der General Bruce the originator of the idea of
ascending the mountain.
The ascent of Mount Everest is impracticable
for many years at least, in the opinion of Henry
+. MOntagnier of Terre Haute Ind, who has made
many ascents in the Himalayas, the Rockies and
the European Alps, and has attained the highest
attitudes. He says:
81 have no hesitation in predicting that Everest
will certainly not be conquered by the first party
that makes the attempt. In my opinion it will
take years, each party profting by the experience
acquired by its predecessors and each gaining a
thousand or more feet on the previous record. One
thing is certain, and that is that the conquest of
the highest peak in the world will be far and away
the most terrific test of endurance human beings
have undergone. The journey to the north
or south pole, as far physical effort and moral
courage are concerned would be mere chd's play
compared with the ascent of a mountain more
than $4,000 feet high. The highest altitude yet at
tanned is about "a, 600 feet
"We know that the number of feet an active
climber can ascend per hour diminishes with the
altitude. Thus up 16 900 feet an average climber
about I foot hon
ground without exhausting himself. Above 23,000
feet the ascensional rate falls below 800 feet an
hour even for exceptionally strong climbers. What
it would be at q 900 feet no one can say without
experience
Judging by what we know of the diminution
of the ascensional rate of strong climbers above
23,0OO feet, it would seem doubtful whether il
would be possible to ascend more than 100 15G
feet hour above $1,000 or $4,000 feet. And
moreover, these figures are based the suppos
ton that the party meets with no great Difficult
ties, such powdery snow, high wind steep
rocks, Sickness etc.
The one south pole exploration now on the
way, seems important. 1t is the British Antarctic
expedition, headed by Commander John Lachlan
Cope, fellow of the Royal Geographical society
and formerly of the British navy. 1t has beer
financed for $75O,000 and there will be five ships
125 men, several airplanes and extensive wireless
apparatus. The object is to circumnavigate the
Antarctic sea, make dash to the south pole 10
cate whaling grounds and map fields that are
supposed to be rich in gold silver coal and rubies
Plans have been made for an absence of five years
DR.. Donald B. Macmillan, veteran of six trips to
the Land of the Midnight Sun, heads the list OF
Arctic explorers. He is building at East Booth
bay, Me-, the schooner Bowdoin for an expedition
scheduled to start in July. Under favorable wealth
conditions the Bowdoin should reach Fury and
Hecla strait early in September. There the ship
will be frozen in. Leaving their vessel under
guard the party will push forward on sleds drawn
by dogs. Doctor Macmillan expects to establish
a camp 700 miles south of Etah, in northwest
Greenland, from which he will try to circumnav-
gate Bafin Land and to penetrate 1,500 miles OF
it's western coast said to be the longest stretch OF
unknown coastlne in the world.
Four expeditions are in progress in Africa
namely the British Natural History museum ex
pediton to penetrate the secrets of the west coast
and of the Jeb-AIaria mountains the effort of the
duke of the AbruZzi to find the source of the WEBB
Shebell river which flows from Abyssinia through
Italian Somaiand into the Indian ocean; the en-.
tomological tour of the Belgian portion of Tan.
ganyka and the Eastern Congo, by T. A. Barns
who explored the Ituri and Semlki forests finding
a strange race of pygmies and making a wonder.
full collection of moths and butterflies, and the
Mackie chronological expedition into Central Africa
to study the Bahima, of the chief pastoral
tribes of Ankole, district west of Uganda.