The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-12
WILL TACKLE
HIGHEST PEAK
Younghusband Gets Permit to
Scale Mount Everest, "Roof
of the World"
NEVER YET SCALED BY man
No European Has Ever Approached
Nearer Than Sixty Miles From Its
Base and Few Travellers Have
Seen Its Upper Slopes.

New York.-Mount Everest, the
Hinalayan peak called the roof of
the world" which Sir Francis Young
husband. the British soldier-explorer.
will attempt to climb next summer,
hus never yet been scaled by man. :
Towering above the frontiers of the
hitherto forbidden land of Tibet and
tie remote province of Nepal, India.
another land of mystery, the difficult
ties in even approaching Mount Ever
est have been sufficient to battle eX.
plorers.
The worlds highest peak lies In
Tibet. north Of the British Indian Dor
der, yet. SO far as known. no Euro
pean has ever approached nearer than
60 miles from its base, and few trav-
elers have ever seen its upper slopes.
Explorer Gets Permit
The attempts which have been made
70 ascend some of Mount Everest's
sister peaks of the HimaIayas usually
ilave been made though Nepal, be-
cause access to them through Tibet
was not open. The approach to Mount
Everest through Tibet is said to be
more accessible and presents greater
prospects of success than from the
Nepal side.
Sir Francis YOunghusband an
nounced that the Tibetan government
had granted him permission to at
tempt the ascent of the mountain by
the Tibetan route. 1t was Sir Fran
els, who as colonel commanding a
British mission to the forbidden city
Of Lhasa In 1902, opened Tibet to
civilization.
Mount Everest named for Sir
George Everest, famous British sur
veyor general Of India. Is the highest
known mountain In the world. Its
trigOnOmetrical altitude Is 29.O02 feet ;
its probable height is 29.151 feet. The
next known highest of the Himalayan
peaks are Kinchinjunga, 29,225 feet,
and K-2, or Bride peak. whose alti-
tude is 2S,191 feet.
Duke Holds Record.
The intrepid duke of the Abruzzi,
who reached the top of Mount St.
Elias in Alaska (1S,024 feet) and who
at n time held the record of Earth
est north" in arctic exploration, tried
to climb K-2, or Bride peak, in 1909,
but failed because from whatever
point of the compass he advanced he
could find no way up to attain the
10000. A. o. coo go L. aYl 1T.
companion were in good physical con
dition, although progress was slow
and laborious; a thick mist warned
them that to go on would have been
madness"
This achievement of the Italian ex.
plorer, however, is the worlds record
for mountain climbing. Bride peak is
in the K%arakoram Himalayas. Be
sides it and its two higher sister peaks,
there are in the Himalayas no less
than 10 peaks about $4,000 feet, As
above $4,000, 16 above 10000 feet and
five above 27,000 feet.
Mountain climbing is one of the
most ancient as well as fascinating
forms of adventure. Its chief dangers
are ~ayalanches, landslides, falling
rocks, billiards., falling ice, falls from
precipices or into crevasses, falls from
ice slopes or down snow slopes.
Some of the notable mountaineering
ing peaks of history and the year in
which the peaks of the various noun
tains were attained follows:
1744, the Titlis, the first true snow
mountain; 17S6, Mount Blanc's sum-
nit reached for first time; 1911, the
Jungfrau; 1912, the Finsteraarhorn /;
1913, the Zermatt Breithorn; 1920,
Pixies peak; 1864, the Wetterhorn /;
1855, the Mounte Rosa 1865, the Mat
terhorn; 1870, ~Chimborazo; 1883, the
Cordiliera 1888, the Selkirks; 1897,
A%doncagua; 1898, the Bolivian Andes /;
1899, Sikkim in the Himalayas; 1909,
Mount RuwenzOri. There have been
no Dre-emirent achievements by eX-