New Britain herald., 1922-06-26
IMPOSSIBLE TOGET
 TO TOP 0F EVEREST
Latest Attempt Fails-.Doubt It
 Will Ever Be Reached
Scientists Have About Agreed That They Never Can Scale Mount Everest.

They Never Can Scale Mount
 Everest.
 London, June 2s. (By Associated Press s)--Mount Everest has again baf- fled the best efforts of man. The Calcutta correspondent of the Daily Telegraph today confirms pre-
 vious report that Brig. c. c. G. Bruce head of the present expedition has
 been forced to the conclusion that persistence in the effort to scale the peak would only result in useless trag- edy.
 Gen. Bruce was most reluctant to abandon further attempts but the condition in which the two last climb medical officers and the certainty Of worse weather conditions daily fore ed him to the decision says the writer
 Major H. T. Morshead was the worst sufferer from frostbite. G. L. Mallory and another member of the party, also were badly bitten and sev- era others less severely.
 The correspondent quotes lone Of the greatest authorities on Himalayas as saying that Bruce's glorious fail ure has proved conclusively that the summit is almost unattainable. The authoritative view in India is that if any expedition started earlier in the season it might be barely possible to reach within 1000 feet of the top but the last lap could only be covered by almost superhuman effort under un- precedentedly favorable weather coh- ditions and by men who faced the cer- tanty that they would never return
 Highest In World.
 Mt Everest, in the Himalayas, the highest peak in the world, has al'Nlys in the past interposed great obstacles to the few efforts of intrepid adven- turers even to gain foothold upon its slopes. Only one definite and organ ized attempt ever has been made be- fore to scale it's sides and stand upon its peak at an altitude of approxi mately five and e-haf miles above the level of the sea. This was the British expedition of last year under Colonel Howard Bury. which reached an altitude of 10000 feet, or about 5000 feet below the summit Bury's expedition was compelled to turn back and the work was taken up again this year by another British expedition under Brigadier- Charles Granville Bruce. Announcement to this effect was mde last year by Sir Francis Younghusband president of the Royal Geographical society of London.
 No peak in the world has presented | such difficulties to mountain climbers 1t Mt. Everest. These have been po itical as well as physical for .only in | recent years has it been possible to | approach Mt. Everest from the Tib- atan side; the deep seated objection of the people of Tibet to foreigners pass | ing through their country made 1t inn 1 possible for any expedition to take ad of the easiest route. which is | through Tibet. The Bury expedition, however, discovered what was regard ed as the easiest way to the summit before it had to turn back.
 Great Physical Strength.
 General Bruce, 56 years old. is a nan of remarkable physical attain nents and of extensive experience in He was shot through both legs in Gallipoli but promptly recovered. Stories of his great phys cal strength, of his practical jokes. md of his other more serious exploits Ire common property throughout northern India, where he has com handed Gurkha regiment for years.
 Towering above the frontiers of the hitherto forbidden land of Tibet and he remote providence of Nepal, 1n- lia, another land of mystery, the diff iculties in even approaching Mt. Ev- rest have been sufficient to baffle ex- ,lorers.
 The worlds highest peak lies in 'ibet north of the British Indian bor- Ter. yet so far as known no Europeans