Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-24
BEGIN new ATTEMPT
TO SCALE EVEREST
Explorers Leave India Oh Way to
Tibet for Journey Up the
Worlds Highest Peak.
AWAIT COMING OF SPRING
Stories Show Value of Cigarette
Smoking OH Previous Attempt.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
NEW YORK, y. Y, February @3.---
Members of the third Mount Everest
reconnaissance expedition are re-
ported to have left India for Tibet
70 prepare the base camps Tor seal
ing the worlds highest and most diff
cult mountain peak later this year.
Last wear the mountain was almost
mastered. but supplies OF cigarettes
and Oxygen gave out and me;nhers
We're compelled to await the coming
spring to tackle the ascent with a
new personnel and fresh supplies
Smoking largely cc&,ributed to the
success of last yea ascent and
neJlhs RS declared that Mount Everest
would have been completely sailed
thad not their supplies of cigarettes
given out at 2,.3oo feet above sea
level.
States Eject Of Sucking.
The value of cigarette smoking 10
men engaged in fatiguin,s work is
- surprisingly valuable that the
description OF its effects on mountain
climbers, given by Capt. G. l. Finch
of last years expedition, is Of in
tereSt
capt. Bruce. Corp. Tejbir and N.Y.
SELF he said, arrived at an alti-
tIde Of $500 feet and pitched camp
about half past two i'll the Afternoon.
From that time until : o'clock the
next evening. longer than twenty
eight hours, We used no oxygen.
had the good fortune to possess thirty
cigarettes.
we were cold and had t" contend
with a cold. cutting wind. When ""
lost warmth il was difficult I" re-
cover ii. | also noticed in very
marked fashion that unless | kept my
mind on the question of breathing
hat is. made of breathing Nolun-
rary process instead of the inNolun-
tary process it ordinarily is i sui
cred from lack Of air an / a ccnSr-
Quent feeling Of suftocatlon. Ry
forcing my lungs To work more
rapidly than they would have done
Of their own accord, | would recover
and again breathe normally.
The partial pressure OF carbon ul-
u>i,i, in the blood falls below normal,
becauS. il is washed out of the syS-
tam. OWNS. to the enormous volume
obtain Il sufficient supply of oxygen.
carbon dioXid. stimulates that nerve
center which controls our involun-
Try breathing.
smokes First Cigarette.
About o'clock on the first after
noon | smoked a hrSt cigarette re-
Numbering how often, in quite differ
,nt circumstances. smoking detracted
tie attention from unpleasant things.
My GONNA MONS, who We're also tX-
pretending trouble in breathing,
smoked also.
we found that after the first few
deep inhalaticnS Of the smoke We
could neglect paying exclusive at
teurion to breathing and think OF
other things. Evidently there is Il
power III the cigarette and pipe which
acts as Il nerve stimulant in place of
the carbon dioXide. in which the
blood was deficient, and this makes
breathing once more an involuntary
process.
These effects Of 4 cigarette We're
found to last for about three hours.
So that by o'clock the next after
noon our supply was consumed.
Craving a substitute, we. had TO re-
sumo taking oxygen, and instead Of
breathing a normal two literS a min
ute each we contented ourselves with
about half liter between US. This
made us comfortable and helped us
to sleep, but VIC nurSed the cigarettes,
and we are puzzled to know the cause
oil their magic action"