The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-17
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, thu
Himalayan peak called 1.-The roof Of
the world" which Sir Francis Young
husband, the British soldier-explOrer
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
| ties In even approaching Mount Ever
! est have been sufficient to bafIle 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
to ascend some of Mount Everest's
sister peaks OF the Himalayas usually
have 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
NspaI 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
veyer general Of India, is the highest
known mountain in the world. It's
trigonometrical altitude is 29,0O2 feet;
Its probable height is 29,151 feet. The
next known highest Of the Himalayan
peaks are Kinchinjunga, 28,225 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 (18,O24 feet) and who
at one time held the record of Earth |
est north" In arctic exploration, tried
to climb K-2, or Bride peak, in 1902
but failed because from whatever
point of the compass he advanced he
could find no way up to attain the
summit. At 24,6OO feet he and his
were in good physical con-
lition, although progress was slow
and laborious; 4 thick mist warned
hem that to go on would have been
This achievement of the Italian ex-
,lorer, however, is the worlds record
or mountain climbing. Bride peak is
n the Karakoram Himalayas. Be
ides 1t and its two higher sister peaks,
here are in the Himalayas no less
han IS peaks about $4,000 feet, 48
bove $4,000, 16 above $4,000 feet and ,
i've above 27,0OO feet.
Mountain climbing is one Of the
1ost ancient as well as fascinating
orms of adventure. Its chief dangers 4
re avalanches, landslides, falling !
ocks, billiards., falling ice. falls from
e slopes or down snow slopes. 4
Some Of the notable mountaineering Z
lg peaks of history and the year in
hich the peaks Of the various noun
Inns were attained follows:
1744, the Titlis, the first true snow !
ountain; 1886, Mount Blanc's sum-
it reached for first time; 1911, the
lngfrau; 1872, the Finsteraarhorn :
'13. the zermatt Breithorn; 1920 :
ikes peak 1864, the Wetterhorn;
'55. the Mounte Rosa; 1865, the Mat
rhorn; 1879, Chimborazo; 1888, the =
ordillera 1888, the Selkirks; 1897. :
doncagua 1898, the Bolivian Andes;
&c. Sikkim in the Himalayas; 1909,
cunt Ruwenzori. There have been
} pre-eminent achievements by ex-
orers since the last-named date. <