The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-04-23
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,onv of tho mammals the descendants OF which
are scattered over the earth. Next year tue
museum will send out biologists ana iiot.o
picture photographer, and In 1873 archeoios'''
and anthropologists will follow
The ROYAL Geographical society is pushing ahea0
its plans for the conquest of Mount Everest. INC
highest mountain in the world, the summit OF
which no white man has ever reached Inc mann
ATTEMPT will be made next year. Sir FRANCIS
Younghusband the president of the society," mas
announced that Col Howard Bury who has traV-
eled much in Asia, has been chosen 10 iead thiS
years expedition with Harold Raeburn IN charge
of the actual reconnaissance Of tie mountain. ME-
Raeburn has just returned from reconnaissance
of >Kangchanjunga, mountain In the Hhmaiayas
with an 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 mpracticabie
for many years at least, In the opinion OF Henry
f. Montagnier of Terre Haute Ind, who has made
many ascents in the Himaiayas. the Rockies ana
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 1t Will
take years, each party profting by the experience
acquired by it's predecessors and each gaining a
thousand or more feet on the previous record. One
the highest peak In the world will be far and away
the most terrific test of endurance human beings
have ever undergone. The journey to the north
or south pole, as far physical effort and moral
courage are concerned, would be mere child's play
compared with the ascent of mountain more
than $1,000 feet high. The highest altitude yet at
tanned is about "a, 600 feet.
1--WE know that the number of feet active
climber can ascend per hour diminishes with the
altitude. Thus up to 10000 feet average climber
can ascend about 1000 feet hour over easy
ground without exhausting himself. Above 23,OOO
feet the ascensional rate falls below 800 feet an
hour even for exceptionally strong climbers. What
it would be at $1,000 feet one can say without
experience
Judging by what we know OF the diminution
of the ascensional rate Of strong climbers above
$1,000 feet 1t would seem doubtful whether 1t
would be possible to ascend more than 100 or $50
feet an hour above 1900 or 28.OOO feet And,
moreover, these figures are based on the supposi-
ton that the party meets with no great difficult
ties, such as powdery snow, high wind, steep
rocks, Sickness ETC."
The one south pole exploration. now on the
way. seems important. It is the British Antarctic
expedition headed by Commander John Lachan
Cope fellow Of the Royal Geographical society
and formerly OF the British navy. It has been
financed for $750O00. and there will be FIVE ships
l25 men, several airplanes and extensive wireless
apparatus. The object is to circumnavi,,ate the
Antarctic sea, make dash to the south pole, To-
cate new whaling grounds and map fields that are
supposed to be rich In gold, silver coal ana rubes
Plans have been made for absence Of Eve 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
er conditions the Bowdoin should reach Fury and
Heela 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 TOO miles south Of Etah IN northwest
Greenland, from which he will try to circumnavi-
gate Bafan Land and to penetrate 1900 miles Of
it's western coast said to be the longest stretch Of
unk nown coastline in the world.
Four expeditions are In progress in Africa,
namely, the British Natural History museum ex.
petition to penetrate the secrets OF the west coast
and OF the Jeb-Maria mountains; the effort Of the
duke Of the Abruxzi to find the source OF the Webb
Shebeil river. which lows from Abyssinia through
Italian Somaliland Into the Indian ocean: the en-.
tomological tour Of the Belgian portion OF Tan.
ganyka and the Eastern Congo, by r. A. Barns
who explored the Ituri and Semlki forests finding
strange race Of pygmies and making wonder
ful collection Of moths and BUTTERFLIES. and thu
Mackie chronological expedition Into Centrx. Afrc.
to study the Bahima. one Of the CHIEF pastoral
tribes Of Ankole, q district west Of Uganda.