Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-30
WILL TACKLE
! HIGHEST PEAK
IYounghusband Gets Permit to
Scale Mount Everest, "R0of
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
IHimalayan peak called 1.-The roof of
the world" which Sir Francis Young
husband, the British soldier-exporer
will attempt to climb next summer,
has never yet been scaled by man.
Towering above the frontiers of the
hitherto forbidden land Of Tibet and
the remote province of Nepal, India.
another land of mystery, the difficult
tiles in even approaching Mount Ever
lest have been sufficient to battle ex-
plorers.
The worlds highest peak lies in
Tibet, north of the British Indian bor-
Ider, yet, so far as known. no Euro
pean has ever approached nearer than
leo miles from it's base and few trav-
elers have ever seen its upper slopes.
Explorer Gets Permit.
The attempts which have been made
Ito ascend some Of Mount Everest's
sister peaks of the Himalayas usually
have been made though Nepal, be-
-tcause 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
ENepal 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
,cis, who as colonel commanding a
british mission to the forbidden city
lof Lhasa in 1902, opened Tibet to
fertilization.
Mount Everest, named for Sir
George Everest, famous British sur
Iveyor general of India, is the highest
known mountain in the world. It's
ltrigonOmetrical altitude is 29,OO2 feet !;
its probable height is 9,151 feet. The
next known highest of the Himalayan
peaks are Kinchinjunga, 28225 feet,
and K-2, or Bride peak, whose alti-
tude is 28,191 feet.
Duke Holds Record.
The intrepid duke of the Abruzzi,
who reached the top Of Mount st.
Elias in Alaska (1SO24 feet) and who
est north" in arctic exploration, tried
to climb K-2, or Bride peak, in 1909,
but failed because from whatever
lpOint of the compass he advanced he
could find no way up to attain the
summit. At 24,6OO feet he and his
companion were in good physical con
ldtion, although progress was slow
and labOriOus; thick mist warned
them that to 60 on would have been
madness"
This achievement of the Italian ex-
plorer, however, is the worlds record
for mountain climbing. Bride peak is
lin the Karakoram Himalayas. Be-
sides it and it's two higher sister peaks,
there are in the Himalayas no less
than rs peaks about $4,000 feet, 4S
Iabove $4,000, 16 above $4,000 feet and
five above $1,000 feet.
Mountain climbing Is one Of the
most ancient as well as fascinating
forms of adventure. Its chief dangers
are avalanches, landslides, falling
rocks, billiards, falling ice, falls from
Iprecfpices or into crevasses, falls from
lice slopes or down snow slopes.
Some OF the notable mountaineering
ling peaks of history and the year in
(which the peaks Of the various noun
ltains were attained follows:
1744, the Titlis, the first true snow
mountain 1856, Mount Blanc's sum-
unit reached for first time; 1911, the
Jungfrau; 1912, the Finsteraarhorn !;
1873, the Zermatt Breithorn; 1920,
1855, tile Mounte Rosa; 1865, the Mat
Iterhorn: 1879, Chimborazo; 1888, the
lCordillera 1888. the Selkirks; 1897,
Adoncagua 1898, the Bolivian Andes !;
1889, Slkkim in the Himalayas; 1909,
mount Ruwenzori. There have been
mo pre-eminent achievements by ex-
plorers since the last-named date.