Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-10

Climbing CT one Of the high peaks
OF the Himalayas by the band of youth
full British explorers, under Frank S.
Smythe, is recognized in American COM
ment as one of the major achievements
of the year. WiHile the Asiatic noun
tain range has other units which have
been attempted in the past, Mount
Kamet is 25,447 feet above sea level,
and its conquest is declared to have
been the product Of outstanding en-
durance and skill
They have done something that the
scientists and explorers have been talk
ing about and trying for a century, -
says the GAINESVILLE Gazette, with the
incidental remark that Smythe, the
leader of the big party. has no scien-
tific standing and no degrees, is not in
the British Who's Who and is not
recognized by the aristocracy of the
Notwithstanding profession"
six members of the expedition "
states the Worcester Evening Gazette
have reached the summit. conquering
difficulties that defeated nine previous
attempts and placing mans foot on the
Hottest point yet attained by mountain
climbing" The Gazette views the
ascent as "bristling with dangers and
almost Cancelled by troubles with pack
animals and the loss of equipment.
That paper continues: THE main
thing, from the point of view of con-
temptation, is that success came after
so many failures. In this instance Il
was doggedneSS plus preparation Plus
the ardor and vigor of youthful SIX
men were under SO years old-tnat
brought them to the top. One thinks OF
Olive Schreiner's allegory of the bird
hunter. who. by incessant tell, built a
| footpath up the face of a precipice in
quest of his great white quarry on the
| top of the high plateau. The climb eX-
| heusted him, and he persisted as he
clutched the single feather that came
huttering down to him from the white
bird far overhead; but those who came
after would find it easier going because
| of his lifelong search. All mountain
climbing suggests this symbolism Rec
ord follows record through the years
And ever the new aSpirant for honors
rises to new heights because OF the
labors of those who first tried ano
failed. It is this which gives to noun
tain peaks their white glory afar OIL
that lures men on and raises them al
last to the heights"
X X \
1.-THE worlds mountain record" re-
marks the San Francisco Chronicle
was set last year by the KanchenJungf
expedition, and was the ascent OF the
Jonsong Peak, 24,340 feet high. Before
that the highest peak ever climbed wa!
Trisul, 23,406 feet, also in the GarhWa
Himalaya, surmounted by DR.. I: u
Longstaff "a years ago. Greater helght'
| have been reached on Everest ane
Kanchenjunga, but these are the hlgheSl
SUBMITS yet attained. This helps us U
realize the formidable difficulties in TIT
way of climbing Mount Everest o.
Kanchenjunga. Everest is almost 4,00(
feet higher than Kamet-Kanchenju
and K2 not much less than Everest
| These giants are supremely jealous o
| their untouched SUBMITS. Even II
climb a peak like Kamet takes an eX
pedition as large as one to go to thu
poles-much larger than the one witt
which Amundsen reached the South
Pole"
"Smythe's achievement" asserts TIT
YOUNGSTOWN Vindicator, will rank will
the greatest exploits of mountain climb
| ing and, because of the eXtraordinar.
dificulties attending it, will aid III tn,
final conquest of Everest" Describing
the difficulties encountered, that pape,
continues: Far below the summit thert
| is a perpendicular rock face, 1000 fee
high, which the climbers must traverse
| They must carry their oxygen with then
and fierce winds add to the terrors O.
the intense cold. One can only wish
that it may fall to the lot of the young
men who have reached the heights Of
Kamet to employ the experience they
have lust gathered in attaining in Their
next attempt the heights of Everest
itself, where no man has ever set foot.
"Far short of the summit" record.
the Boston Transcript, 1.-THE physical
powers of man yield to the deficiency
Of oxygen-a deficiency made manifes
in headaches, in shortness of breath
in inability to sleep, in stomach dis.
orders the climber must carry hi.
oxygen with him. Even at $4,000 fee
the Thermometer seldom rises above thu