Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-27
SIURMS BhLK
 ASCENT OF PEAK
Mountaineers Make Daring At- tempt to Climb Giant of
 the HimaIayaS.
WILL RENEW ATTACK LATER
British Explorers Get 21,ooo Feet Up Mount kinchinjunga and Are Con- pelled to Stop by Bad Weather
 Encounter Difficulties.

Manchester, England.-A Manches- ter Guardian correspondent at Calcut- ta remarks that great interest has been aroused by an attempt to climb Mount Kinchinjunga, one of the giants of the Himalayas.
 Harold Raeburn, editor of Moun- taineering Art. and c. C.. Crawford of the Assam civil sevice, both mem- bers of the Alpine club, were known to be conducting preliminary explora- tions in the hope of finding an easy access to the summit.
 More than one skirmish in the vicinity of Kinchinjunga was made, though the rains at the time were heavy and the ever-shifting ice fields in the mountains were likely to come down in terrific avalanches, making all climbing impossible without seri- ous risk to life.
 Their explorations led the climbers along the course of the Talung river, which takes it's rise in the Talung glacier. Here they crossed streams, the bridges of which had been washed away, and passed impenetrable for ests, through which they had to hew their way for several days. Un- daunted by the rainy weather, they travelled almost straight north to Pamionghi, across the Giuchu Pass, 16,43O feet, to the Talung glacier, which is almost immediately to the south of Kinchinjunga, and there ob- tained a glorious view of the noun tains.
 Encounter Great Difficulties.
 The party returned to Darjeeling and made their final preparations, en- gazing coolies and large quantities of stores. The rains, however, were so severe that it was not until September 2 that the two explorers were able to get away. Travelling out by the Sin galila ridge, they attacked Kineh;n- junga on the southwest side and ex- plored the glaciers. Access to the summit by that direction was found difficult, but the party persevered and eventually camped out at a level of 10000 feet
 Here more difficulties were met and bad weather was experienced. Snow began to fall and the expedition be came increasingly hazardous. A fur ther thousand feet was overcome, but at this point the attempt had to be abandoned.
 The return was made by new snow pass about 1S,000 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 was experienced when returning, ow ing to the depth of new snOws on the Sikkhim side, which were probably due to the bad weather experienced in the latter part of September. Finally the dle of October, having been away over month Both the explorers were greatly impressed by the peaks, but confident that, given good wealth er the summit could be attained.
 Attempt Made in 1899.
 IL lS llllCl tollIiS IV ICNull lhdl a similar attempt was made by Douglas w. Freshtield in 1S99 MT. Freshfield was led to undertake the exploration by the fact that owing, as he says, partly to cost and the difficulty of travel in Sikkhim and partly to the obstacle presented by the Nepalese frontier, no European had up to the end of the nineteenth century gone around the mountain. Even Sir Joseph Hooker did not approach near enough to explore the glaciers of the giant. As for official surveys, these, according to Mir Freshfield, have al ternately ignored and caricatured the glaciers.
 Mfr. Freshfield did not think much of his tour from a climbing point of view
 Ut is, of course, impossible" he writes. ito go up and down 75,000 feet 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 iee-aX played but very subordinate part in our journey"