The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-01-28
TRIP PLANNED
ATTEMPT TO SCALE MOUNT
EVERETT, IDEA
Worlds Highest Peak Lies In
Tioet North of British
Indian Border
Associated Press Dispatchl

New York, January 25.-Mt. Ever
est, the Himalayan peak called 'the
roof of the world" which Sir Francis
Younghusbapd, the British soldier ex-
plorer will attempt to climb next
summer has never yet been scaled
by man. Towering above the frontiers
of the hitherto forbidden land OF tt
bet and the remote province Of Nepal,
India, another land of mystery, the
difficulties in even approaching Mt.
Everest have been sufficient to baf-
fie explorers.
The worlds highest peak lies in
Tibet north of the British Indian
border, yet, so far as known, no Eu-
ropean has ever approached nearer
than sixty miles from it's base and
few travellers have ever seen its up
per slopS.
The attempts which have been
made to ascend some of Mt. EvereSt's
sister peaks Of the Himalayas have
usually been made through Nepal be-
cause access to them through Tibet
was not open; The approach to Mt. Ey-
more accessible and present greater
prospects of success than from the
Nepal side.
Permission Is Granted.
Sir Francis - Younghusband an
nounced that the Tibetan govern
ment, had granted him permission to
attempt the ascent of the mountain
by the Tibetan route. 1t was Sir
Francis, who as Colonel command
ing a British mission to the Forbid
den City of Lhasa in 1903-02 opened
Tibet to civilization.
Mt. Everest named for Sir George
Everest, famous British Surveyor
General of India, is the highest
trigonometrical altitude is 29,002
feet. it's probable height is 29,141
feet. The next known highest of
the Hipalayan peaks are Kinchin-
junga, 1925 feet and> K-2, or Bride
peak, whose altitude is 2S,191 feet.
The intripid Duke of the Abruzzi,
who reached the top of Mt. st. Elias
in Alaska (1S,024 feet) and who at
one time held the record of "farthest
north" in Arctic exploration, tried to
climb K-2 or Bride Peak, in 1909 but
failed because whatever point of the
compass he advanced he could find
no way up to attain the summit. At a.
600 feet he and his companions we're
~ Soou PhS siSai Cohuilioli d!IaouSl
progress was slow and laborious: a
thick mist warned them that to go on
would have been Madness" "This
achievement of the Italian explorer,
however, is the worlds record for
mountain climbing. Bride Peak is
in the Karakoram Himalayas. Be-
sides 1t and its two higher sister
peaks, there are in the Himalayas
no less than seventy five peaks above
$4,000 feet, forty eight above $4,000
feet, sixteen above $4,000 feet and
five about 27,000.N
Mountain Climbing Ancient
Mountain climbing is one of the
most ancient as well as fascinating
gers are ayalanches, landslides, fall
ing rocks, billiards., falling ice, land
slides from precipices or into crevas
ses, fall from ice slopes or down
snow slopes. Sir Francis announce
ment of his intention to attempt
this mountain climbing feat recalls
the exploits of two American women,
Mrs. Fannie B. Workman and Miss
Annie s. Peck-and their conquest
of some of the highest peaks in Aisa
and South America.
Mrs: Workman in 1899, 1903, 1906
and 1908 made ascents in the Him
ala oo, iuSiuuinS IOue Ol the NUN huQ
peaks whose summit is $4,000. feet
high, or more than half a mile above
the apex of that forbidding sentinel
of the Alaskan silences, Mt. McKin-
ley. Miss Peck in 1908 negotiated
the top. Of Mt. Huasaran in the
Peruvian Andes, a height Of 21,812
feet and three years later she climb
ed the two peaks of the volcano Cor
opuna. Some of the notable noun
tain climbing peaks of history and
the. year in which the peaks of the
various mountains were attained fol-
low:
1744, the Titlis, the first true snow
mountain; 1886, Mt. Blanc's summit
reached for first time; 1911, the jung
frau; 1872, the Finsteraarhorn; 1913,
the Zermatt Breithorn; 1920, Pixies
Peak; 1854. the Wetterhorn; 1855,
the Mounte Rosa; 1865, the Matter
horn; 1879, Chimborazo; 1883, the
Cordillera; 1885, the Selkirks: 1897,
Aconcagua; 1898, the Bolivian An
des; 1899, SikAm in the Himalayas;
1909. Mt. Ruwenzori; There have
been no prominent achievements by
explorers. since the last named date.