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LEWIS
HAVE been given the first full ac- count of the disaster that overtook three Englishmen climbing the Hima- the layan mountain Nanga Parbat - "Naked Goddess."
The three young men, brought to- gether while soldiering in India, resolved after the war to go back to explore one of the least-known regions in the world.
They planned to spend a year Bur- veying an area nearly as large as Wales that lies among the Karakoram mountains in the most northerly corner of Pakistan. From this barren region, sparsely inhabited by nomads and their flocks of sheep and goats, only one has returned.
lost either in an were His companions avalanche or by falling into a crevasse on the slopes of Nanga Parbat. Its height is 20,020(1
Mr Richard Michael Waring Marsh, whose home is in Hertfordshire, is the sole survivor, He is 24.
His companions were William Henry Crace, the same age, of Blakeney, Holt, Norfolk, and James Whittaker Thornley, of Southport, Lan- cashire, who was 27.
It had not originally been irtended to climb the "Naked Goddess." But other plans had to be abandoned when permission to remain in the the Karakoram territory was withdrawn by Pakistan Government,
The three men decided that rather than re- turn home at once they would explore the mountain, which is the seventh highest in the
world.
No man has yet succeeded in climbing to its summit. It has claimed the lives of more climbers than any other Himalayan peak,
The three explorers and four Sherpa porters established their Base Campa hut and tents at an altitude of 12;500 feet-by-Novern-- ber"11"last.
They were at this height or above it for the next six weeks, enduring bliz- zards, avalan- ches, and in tense cold.
The portere refused to go beyond Camp 1, which
established
was on
a glacier at 14,050ft.
THE MAN WHO CAME BACK RICHARD MAESet
friends explore the moonquered Naked Goddess mountain
(top ploture), He was forced His frienda to turn back. went on. They died. The *Naked Goddess " countain remained unconquered.
They spoke of their relatives who had died, on the mountain and of its terrible reputation,
moving strongly. He saw them stop and pitch a fent.
THE 'HAKED GODDESS' MOUNTAIN
THE SPOT WHERE
TWO MEN DIED
On Fence
NATHANIEL
When an old, old man could rest
his bones
All day on his old, old bed
When grey dawn breaks on the
old, old world
The
GUBBINS
The old, old man will rise To rub the pains from his old,
-old legs
And sleep from his old, old His old, old wife in her old, old
cycs;
shawl,
Her nose red, red with cold, Will brew hot ten in the old
cracked pot The bell at the works' has
tolled.
Clock in¡ clock in, clock in, old
unan
Old man, don't loiter there; Hard work is good for old, old
men;
Old man, don't stand and
stare.
We can't afford to keep old men On pensions all thele lives; Old men
must icarn to keep themselves
And keep their did, old wives.
pub habits, party manners, and history before being let loose on the populace.
..
Here are a few points on history probably not included in the lectures:---
Known English history, as dis- net from Briksh history, began when Julius Caesar landed in
35 B.C. at Walmer, Kent. As I live within a mile of the land- ing beach and know what it's like when an cast wind's blow- ing I have often wondered why he didn't pack up at once and go right back to Rome.
The local Home Guard op- posing him (known as Ancient Britons) were half-naked Welsh- men, who would have sent him packing anyway if they had not been obliged to Aght trained men in armour with fint axes,
Clock out, clock out, clock out into
old man,
,
their
Caesar drove the Welshmen Wales, Two thousand years Inter they had Take this, your weekly wage; revenge by sending a lot of
say you're more than Welsh politicians into England. eighty-four?
You
Why
bless you, that's no age. There's no old fool like an old,
old fool,
There's one born every day; The more you earn you old, old
fool
The less the State will pay.
Hundreds of years later the Norsemen arrived. They had
the silly names like Egghead
Egg. Baid, and Baldhead the wore silly hats with wings at cach side, to hide their egg hends, and were usually drunk.
Still later William the Con-
How to keep slim querer arrived, knocked the egg
heads for six while they were wassailing (lossing back В
COMETHING the cager public quart), divided up the country
has been awaiting a long
It among his court crawlers, who time can now be published.
began the fine old English family Gubbins, Is the advice of Dr
onsense, and were the first notorious Fleet-street quack, on
English snobs. how to keep slim.
The most obvious and cheapest way to keep slim is to starve yourself to death.
If this method does not appeal,
eut out of your
cheest.
diet bread,
muk, potatoes, eggs,
Prominent Ogures in English
baces, butter, rice pudding, and history after that were King was forced to sign anything else you fancy. Assum John, who
housewife who the Magna Carta and started the ng you are a does not eat out you will then House of Lords; Richard Lion be left with nothing but your Heart, who knew a lot of chaps weekly meat ration, which will who were tired of their wives, on crusader be much the same as starving too, and led them
to Palestine; Henry the Eighth, to death.
who was a lady killer in more РСПБЗ than one;
ueen Eliza
both.
who
gave us an
early government by
Ditver
Don't gulp this eight penny. bou worth of meat in one day. Re- warning on member there are seven days women by chopping off the heads in a week. Cut the meat into of personable chaps who didn't
make a pais at tier. seven tiny pieces and, as variety ma
the Is the spice of life, roast a little Cromwell, who chopped off blt in a slow oven one day, put head of Charles I, because he another bit in a casserole the had no respect for the Parlia One. Soft snow reduced, pra.next, and make a miniature mont we udmire so much today; day clutch of Georges (1st, 2nd and 3rd), who made remarks
gress to 150ft. an hour,
to amuse a BBC
stew in an CIK
cup the after. The struggle was continuer
Busy women could roast two silly enough
and Queen the following day in 40 degrees portions together, cating one half studio audience;
remembered for of frost and then with the hol on Monday and the rest Victoria, best weather worsening, they realised cold on Tuesday, being careful a tough social outlook and say- they could not hope to reach to resist a temptation to swallow ing "We are not amused." the spot where Crace and the lot on Monday.
Considering she was expected Thornley had last been seen, for By the end of the month you to read Gludstone's speeches, another four or five days. will have lost two or three stones which sometimes___ insted six House of Com- and 100% pretty rupey. You will hours in the also be half-mad with bunger mons; she hadn't much-to laugh....
Frostbite would have crippled then by then.
Reluctantly Marsh decided to return to Base Camp.
He then sent his head porter back to an Army unit 85 miles
History lesson
MERICAN
in England
At..
Next week, boys, watch out for some valuable advice on troops stationed British pub habits
and party have been manners,
away with news of what had lectured for six days on British
happened.
1
Crace and Thornley would by then be without food according to his calculations.
picked An officer and ten
arrived a few Just when preparations had volunteers who been completed it was discovered days later gald conditions mode that the only remaining Primus a search Impossible and that it The next three days were fine, stove would not work. As it would probably not be feasible but Marah could see only the would have been impossible to to attempt it until May or June. tent with no signs of movement. have gone without It Marsh had
But they had also tinned Marsh feared it had been tongue, biscuits, chocolate, and swept away by an avalanche.. shortbread. They drank tea and He spent the next day preparing
for a search.
cocoa,
.
During the long nights they" huddled over + volume of Shakespeare's plays, and amid howling wind and the occasional thunder of an avalanche per- formed "Macbeth." Sometimea
Thomley sang operatie airs,
Every day Marsh read portion of the Bible.
INSIDE
ECRET ten-nation talks
SEC
Aircraft were called in, and
INFORMATION
By MERCURY
munoeuvres In the ranean.
-London Express Service)
Mr Grim Cheated
Of Gloom
From Newell · Rogers
And pirendy the partners have £15,000,000 worth of business, It's fun climbing back.
HALF AN HOUR. of Misa
So the three men were left
New York. Before that he was an honours alone living in two tents in There was a day-long blizzard to walk 100 miles to and from though Marsh, flying at 19,000 feet, was able to guide the pilot which they cooked on a Primus and on the following day which a village for another.
architecture again, hired stove. Their staple diet was was fine nothing could be seen
last seen hit mot where he had AMERICA'S Mr Grim has student in architecture. So be
a tutor. got a nasty shock.
and got a licence to lost through seen his companions no sign Five days were pemmican, a kind of dried meat, of the tent.
a partnership this mishap.
of life or tent could be seen.
For months he has groused practise. He got Marsh did not finally leave over expected shortages because offer from an old classmate. Then Marsh and two porters the mountain until he had made of Korea and rearmament. He For 12 of the high-pressure set out from Base Camp. They two more fights.
would not get his now car, the years in the soap business, Luck- took six hours to reach Camp
-London Express Service)
enlarged man says, he had to take sleeping new TV with the screen, or all the white shirts he pulls regularly. Now architect Luckman enjoys pill-less natural wants,
Now, he learns that he can sleep. And he can say: "I re- have them all--and rearmament, cognise my three sons when I
get home." too.
In January, Detroit turned out Mediter-620,000 cars
and lorries-four percent above January 1950.
A Chicago manufacturer
Mahas Pasha,
Egyptian turned out four times as many.
worth £3,148 For that price a islams at a 1,000- Premier, is expected to a TV sets Last months as in Janu Tallulah Bankhead's time is now
London soon for talks on theory a year ago,
Shops bulge with white shirts national radio network will sell 1936 Anglo-Egyptian treaty.
and you can buy them for one an advertiser the right to have his wares mentioned during one third less.
shortages half-bear of In anticipation of Government
broadcast. its plane for and
black markets, xotallers. Bunday night base Bankhead's The network calls her "Every- general mobilisation and civil went on the greatest buying
everyone on her Sales of tinned
defence in the event of emer-ree in history. The shops are body's Darling, because millions Argentine
full
of stock. And the Govert. hear har call meat to the United Staten Kency.
ment has
slapped controls on programme "darling" coch. Sun- atmount to 24,000 bons monthly,
credit, so they cannot sell so day. She is radio's First Lady Fuller convertibility of ster ling has been discured at the In Britain, a retum to points Sydney conference of overscan 7y as on the never-never today,
THE FIRST BRITON," a 20- in banks with Mr G. F. Cobbold
year-old Liverpool girl, is down with New York, dus. So are 558 camps until they had reached a Partner." Strikers force him to Boods Is considered by produ= Governor of the Bank of
Gls at nearby Fort Dix. It is beginning to be an epidemi
Five days were spent seeking a route to take them higher up the mountain to set up Camp 2.
On November 18 Marsh had back to Base Camp-be-
to
go
cause frost-bitten feet made him
on rubber production, now being held in London, may break down.
•
Ceylon and Indonesia are.
American resisting
proposals
for lower rubber prices. -
•
British estimates are still
that submarine fleet.
The
Turkish
Preliminary talks on lease- lend of US, arms for Spain
reviewed Mr Anthony Eden is con- have taken place in Madrid. has a hindrance. He expected bla vinced after his recent visit to two friends would join him with-Germany that the need to arm in a few days. But they went Germo
on un.
their move- Marsh followed ments through field glasses, He
urgent.
units is overdue and
•
Mr Bevin is shown taking saw them day by day carrying orders from America in a new
called "Junior rationing food and equipment to new Moscow play
height of 18,0002t.
On December & Marsh, had .: Britain and America have
change his mind.
•
•
NKIANG
what was to
his last prove alimpse of them. They were acted to buy more
Greces to help her recovery.
***truit Móra
and tobacco from Greece will be in British shops, this year.
from
•
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England.
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TV
Saying The We have got
seliling job. a to get out and hustled
Free-enterprise, industry, with ita expanding productive power has cheated, dr Grim out of IT'S. TOUGH at the top, but
to fall from tougher £107,000-a-year job at the top. bas What does a men do them? Worty-one-year-old
Production of Services demands and in- plate shortage are forcing can being restricted in the US tousterity. ning firms to turn down big make way for defence produc orders from the grocery trade. tion.
•
Dandelion cultivation
1%
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FIRE CHIEF Edvin Barber took the fire to, his brigade at Watch Hill, Rhode Island. I ́under the bonnet of Els car. a was
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