The daily Alaskan., 1921-03-03
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 Ascent Of Peak

Manchester. En.aud.-A Manches- lar Guardian correspondent al Calcut- .a remarks that great interest has . .reu aroused by an attempt 10 climb . Upm, Einchiniungu, cue Ol the giants .ul Iup IlimaluyaS.
 Harold Rucburn. editor Of Noun . ai.yeria- Art. and (. C. Crawford Of uao A>-um civil sevice, both mcm- . .r.s oc the Alpine club. were known Co be conducting preliminary eNplora- t.las in the hope of finding an easy . access 10 Jhe summit.
 Uure than one sEirmiSh in tie y-r.a.y ot Kiuclinjunga was made . ...H-a ine rains al the time were heavy Hud the cycr-shifting ice fields lrs mountains were likely to come town la terrific avulanchcs, making aL c,aa1iuE impossible without seri- ng, ri>., to life.
 Their eNuiurutiOnS led the climbers . .Iuu- tae course of the Talung river, which takes its rise in the Talung -1...rr Here they crossed streams, . r.y bridges oI which had been washed ...v. and passed impeuetrable fer ...~. through which they had to hew ..ur way for several days. Cn- ..nt.d by the rainy weather, they ..ry,G almost straight north to s.E..r-H across the Gjuchu Pass, r..t feel. Co the TaImg glacier, ....l Is almost immediately Jo the -Hal of ki@cGiujuu-u, and there ob- ...ttu glorious view uI the moun- s..us.
 Encounter Great Difficulties.
 wia party returned to DarjeeIing ,a.I watg rneir final preparations, en- -..H- eaolfcs and large quantities of s...as. The rains. however, were so severe shat it was not until September . illur ihe two explorers were able to -.r away Travelling out by the Sin -..lu ridge. they attacked kinchin- f.a-l un the southwest side and ex- ..aryL tGu glaciers. Access to the ~I.uir by that direction was found Muvu.. but the party pcrScvered and n.yUtl@'y campcd out at level Of -FrJ feet.
 Here more difficulties were met and i.l weather Was experiefccd. Snow b.-.u to fall and the expedition be- eaue increasingly hazardous. A fur lhrr thousand feet was overcome, but at this point the attempt had to be abandoned,
 . The return was made by new suuw pass about 1S,O0O feet high. The weather was at first exceedingly bad, but conditions became better later There was no rain on lower level, al- though occasional snow showers were met Higher up. Considerable difficulty vas experienced when returning, ow- ing t1 the depth of new SnOwS on the . S.zyl.m side. which were probably due ro ra, had weather experienced In the hitter part of September. Finally the rnrgv reached Darjecling In the mid Grr oG October, having been away over month. Both the explorers were greatly impressed by the peaks, but confident that, given good wealth er. lGe summit could be attained.
 Attempt Made in 1899.
 I. is interesting to recall that a similar attempt was made by Douglas ". rrcSnfc,d in 1899. Mir. Freshfield was led to undertake the exploration by the fact that owing, as he says, narrIv to cost and the difficulty of travel in S.kEhim and partly to the o'sarre presented by the Nepalesc Iruar;pr, no European had up to the cad of the nineteenth century gone around 'hc mountain. Even Sir Jo...l Hooker d:d not approach near 1. enough 10 explore the glaciers of the giant. As for official surveys, these, according 10 IIr. Freshfeld, have al- .a-na.cly ignored and caricatured the glaciers.
 NIr. FrcshGcld did not think much os lis tour from a climbing point of v.nv.
 "lr is, ot course, impossible" he writes. "to Go up and down 75,OOO rrrt without some climbing in the pop ular sense Of the word, but in the technically Alpine sense we had far too little mountaineering for my taste. Rope and icc-aN played but very subordinate part in our journey"