Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14
MOUNTAIN FO|LS
GERMAN CLIMBERS
HimaIayan Peak, Second
Highest, Beats Back
Hardy Explorers.

Kinchinjunga, third highest noun
tain in the world, has turned back
party Of six Germans who attempted to
climb 1t. They did not get as close to
the top Of Kinchinjunga as the English
climbers got to the peak OF Mount Ev-
crest, highest mountain in the world;
"Kinchinjunga and Everest are neigh
bors." says a bulletin from the National
Geographic Society. Kinchinjunga, IN
Sikkhirn, lies only 100 miles east OF
Everest, which rises on the border be-
tween Tibet and Nepal.
Second Highest Has Three Names.
IF Everest lost 1000 feet of its sum-
nit in a rock slip, Kinchiniunga, tow
ering 2S,l46 feet in height FIVE and
one-third miles up in the air, would
become the second highest mountain
In the world.
'Ths present second highest noun
tain, which has three names, Goodwin
Austen or K2 or Dapsang, is member
of the same Hlmalayan Mountam
chain, but 1t lies far to the other END
in Kashmir It is as far from Everest
and Kinchiniunga as Chicago is from
New York. K2 is f04 feet higher than
KinchinJunga.
A Cluster Of Peaks.
"Of the three, Kinchinjunga is most
station, Darjeeling. what Mount Rain
Ter is to Tacoma and Seattle. The mar
row-gauge railway to Darjeeling brings
visitors within As miles of the snow
capped peak holding court amid group
Of peaks, many of which out-top Mount
Mckinley, highest mountain in North
America.
''Kinchiniunga is particularly i'm
pressive to the visitor in Darieeling be-
possible to the eye. K2 and Everest
rise from high plateaus; not so Kinchin-
jInga.
"standing on the Darjeeling ridge,
the observer first looks down, deep
down, 5000 feet into a river gorge
choked with tropical jungle. Then his
eyes rise to the rice fields rejecting
the blue sky and the tea plantations.
Up and up to the temperate zone trees,
then to the pine forests GROWING lower
mountains. The observer peeps over
half q dozen intervening ridges into the
dark mysterious depths Of valleys. Then
he sees the bare uplands above the tree
line and finally the beginning of the
SHOWS. Long white glaciers drape the
mountain mass whose two-pronged
peak half fills the sky.
A Great Wall Of Nature.
"At Darjeeling the world seems to be
walls on the north The eye travels
$1,000 feet from the bottom of the
gorges up to the peak. There is no
such thing as a horizon. Kinchinjunga
closes the view like an exquisite screen.
THE vertical height is to the length
at this point of vantage as is to g.
that is, as a tree so feet high appears
when viewed at the distance of one
average city block.
I'm terms of familiar American
views Kinchinjunga. seen from OAR
feeling, is like the Washington Monu-
ment as it appears from the west
veranda of the Capitol or the Wool
worth Building as seen from the Jersey
shore.
Although Kinchinjunga is 20 close
70 an outpost of civilization, 1t may be
many years before mountain climbers
succeed in conquering 1t. Reconnais-
sance explorations around It's base re.
veal very few advantageous ridges up
which n1ountaineers can ascend.
Natives Feor Mountain Spirits.
Natives of the region, Bhutias, Lep-
chAs and Nepalese, believe the snow
peaks to be the abode Of the evil spirits.