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THE CHINA · MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1959.
EVEREST
HE British Everest expedition is now on Its last lap in its bid to reach the roof of
the world.
But now Colonci Hunt, its lender. faces a vital decision which may decide eventual auccess or pre-
mature failure,
This concerns the best way
of climbing
the
South
Col.
It
depends partly on
the
condition of the
snow
and
ice.
In my opinion the 'best way
up although
much
harder
going-is by way of the Eperon
des
Genevois,
the rocky spine
which juts up
direct linc
with the South Col.
Along Qiis Colonel spine Hunt can, I am
set up an intermediate gate The
camp.
Swiss did not stop to set up a gamp, but made
the 12-hour climb
AHEAD
MT. EVEREST
29,002 FT.
LIES AGONY
says the man who has
has
got nearest to the top
to "the top.
which left us and our porter, the Sherpa Tensing, in a rather that could no! poor condition
be overcome at that height.
The
route
second
Colonel per-
Hunt can choose-jonger haps, and even more dangerous is by way of the Lhotse Glacier, well to the right of the;" Eperon des Genevois.
This route, however, has the the team is that if Uanger enught in violent storns, ava- may lanches from the glacier crash down upon them.
Groundwork
an
TN my opinion it is possible to
establish
intermediate Camp on the Eperon at 7,000 metres (25,000ft.).
Camp
5:
Fixed cords from can be established and in case of bad weather and snow the team's return will be guaran- teed.
FIRST OF A
SERIES by
RAYMOND LAMBERT
the Swiss mountaineer who climbed to within 797 ft. of the summit jast year.
of
MT. LHOTS
17,800FY.
CUSTOMS
PASS
Stares depot Camp 5
for
Whichever route Colonel Tuni chooses he must be certain that the men chosen for this task are #cellinatised beforehand altitude work.
Tho team cannot stay at South Col without oxygen and they to wall for cannot stay there
the quantity good weather pa of oxygen needed-all brought up on the backs of the carriers- is too greal.
If they dared to wall, their physical deterioration ot 1
For, after a climb from Camp height of 7,880 metres (25,050ft.), we Swiss put up our 10 the South Col- distance Camp 6, would be so
where
great that
abou 1,000 metres, the
would never they
have the Sherpas are in no condition to
to make the Anal return the following day even it strength Weather
ex- assault, or, worse, to come back conditions are
after reaching the summit.
cellent.
Here again all depends on how
The South Col is definitely the
many Sherpas Colonel big "mousetrap" of Everest. Himt has managed to persundo It is a crucial point that has got
to
follow him to these altitudes-to-ba.got.
These Sherpas do not like the
up here at The cffort used
away the strength
mountains at these heights- necessary for the final assault
they become sick and i
a
We which, although no sinecure, is terrific problem for know that it is because of the not lack of oxygen, but they cannot trained Alpinists. understand that.
All they feel are pains, heavy legs, anti heavy heads, and they do not like it.
The Swiss tcom lcst autumn started
off from Camp with ten Sherpas. Within a
Luck, sir
S THE South Coi is like going T Into the front line during few
never
hours the number had fallen to the war. You know you ar
but
know going in reven, and then to five.
whether you will get out, Jen The loads these
were to carrying had be dividett It is not the mountain that between the rest who could carry
beats you, it is the altitude and on. This, in
turn, weakened the constant need of oxygen.
Every step forward is an them rapidly, and they also fell
Agony and with every slop it is out, There is also far less risk of
Once you start from Camp 5 necessary to breathe in and out you must go on, therefore the four times, avalanches by the Eperon route.
Humart effort alone can beat Whichever route Colonel Hunt Col at one go-an 11 or 12-hour sick men have to be helped or
Everest, but for this human even carried as well. chooses he must bear in mind— and this also is vital that heavy
If you return. to Camp 5 these effort to be sufficient at the It also means groundwork has got to be done more food, more material of primitive men would never climb moment when the final assault by, the team
team to help the Sherpas every
sort, heavier packages, up again and all the efforis ut is made depends on Colonel I wish him and carriers,
and greater physical deteriora- the team would be reduced to Hunt's decision.
the the luck in
world. Unless the way Is made as tion of the men.. easy as possible for the Sherpas, and they are encouraged all the Lime, they rapidly get dis- heartened and will either refuse to carry on or will lag behind.
If Colonel Hunt decides on the longer route over the Seracs ("teeth of lee") of the Lhotse Glacier, they will have to cut across horizontally for more than 1,000 metres (about 3,280 feet).
Advantage
march.
A
She
tenis, more
zero.
all
Intrigues All France
"They said," "Anything on board there shouldn't bel'and for a foké I said. 'Only the Crown Jewels,' so for a joke they said, 'O.K.there's five minutes before your ship leaves- let's have her down sak
make sure,"
London Express Service
He COULD be King in name.
...
by JAMES BARTLETT
U
NLESS the Queen
·herself -dialikea the change, the Duke
of Edinburgh could receive
titular
the
dignity of King.
if that happens he would become King Philip II, says an unsigned article in the 100th edition of Burke's Peerage due to be pub- lished six daya before the Coronation.
The articlo goes on to discuss. academically, tho arguments that would infu- ence such a change,
As King Consort, Philin II would have no right of Bovereignty. He would stili take second place to Queen Elizabeth, and the Windsor dynasty would stay unchanged.
UNFETTERED ·
Burke explains: Queen, as the fountain of honour, is not fottered in her right to bestow what- ever tular diguity or pre- cedence outside Parlament she pleases. There is no settled course of precedent" There is nothing in Britisha history that keeps the Duke of Edinburgh in hla present uncertain position, the most Junior of 27 other Dukes.
He was a prince until six years ago, with a right of accession to the thrones of Greece and Denmark.
But when he became a naturalised British citizen In 1047, eight months before his marriage, he renounced his royal titles and rights: of succession.
FROM SPAIN
The first King Phillp. who came over from Bpalni to marry Queen Mary I in 1354, did not renounce la own titles. Although ho was to be King Consort, Parliament laid down that the whole government of the kingdom should be in the joint names of Phillip and Mary.
Today. the Coronation ceremony will show to all the world that Queen Elizabeth holds undisputed: right as sovereign.
From SYDNEY SMITH
The skeleton in the chariot Paris. the mountains of Central France
has been examined by French YOUNG woman of 30 near the tiny town of Vix.
that the arca doctors, He was seeking in an
who say
and jaw, with a massive golden containing ancient Greek or magnificent teeth
preserved and crown on her head, lying on Etruscan burial places. But no wonderfully the painted frame of an one knew exactly where they splendidly formed, belonged to
• King Consort. they a woman who died around 500 werk or exactly what Etruscan warrior's charlot, held..
B.C. When she was thirty. Then, one day, M. Joffroy But at the lime of burial only HERE the danger is the poss- is intriguing every savant
great heroes who died ible rupture of "planches" in France even though and his team, turning up a the
muss of mud in a flooded field, vallantly in battle were buried of snow-huge crusts of leed she died 2,500 years ago.
struck their first clue.
with their chariots. The four snow formed by the violent
Says M. Joffroy: "We came diemanded wheels, each covered winds blowing the snow off the She was burled, surrounded.
Rn enormous bronzo with beaten bronze plaques, the Eperon's spine.
by bronze jars magnificently acrosa
vases and the great vase They form "planks" which wrought
Gorgons break away with terrific noise Etruscan vases telling the atory which
slide down the glaeler.
of some forgotten, battle. She enlaced with snakes.
and
and red
and black vase with great curved handles male 300 pounds, far too big
represented
The top and
The only advantage of this was burled. In the style and the status of a woman of rare arciz to, be
route: it would be caster to with all the tributes due to a establish an intermediate camp hero. If Colonel Hunt, in a reconnals-
This
of the vaso was crowned by
beauty."
It is that sovereignty which would give her "sais right to decide whether the Duke of Edinburgta shani) be dignified by a higher titis But although present day tendencies ali zavour equality of the sexes, thera are still many people who would prefer such a tilio, to be held back, They think that if any dignity is to be bestowed, he tile Prinos Consort, which was good enough for Queen Victoria's husband, should be good enough for Philip.t
*Edited by L G. Pine ;-
EJ-81.
NAT GUBBINS
IS ILL
to be a household aro belleved by France's cho burial equipment of an unknown fight- ing Etrusc
Etruscan queer. Only one The story of this mystery The architectural team went such perfectly-preserved here sortie, finds it
I impossible
woman and her herole tomo has on digging. A littlo
further
warrior's tomb hos ever been to establish one on the stony Just been told in the dry down they found". thợ : gold- found: before. This was in the Eperon des Genevois.
ana crowned skeleton, the warrior's Danube Valley. academic report of Intermediate camp, which we Swiss did not have, is of the France's leading coologists, M. charlot with its four wheels M. Joffroy's discovery is the
More Joffroy, curator of a government dismantled and placed re- Art of a woman warrior. utmost Importance.
verently beside it. Around the During the rumer the gold- Shet pas, can be used to carry museum near Dijon.
Now France, a country which charlot and the heavy, gold- crowned skeleton on the bronze more material and the
crowned
other charlot will go on view in the woman were Sherpas can return to Camp 6 pays high homage to
Paris Louvre for anyone to guess the same day.
king, is asking: "Was this some vates,
Says M. Joffroy", "Together, —for a two-shilling ticket-the If this camp is not established early Joan of Arc who died be the make one of the richest story of this unknown queen who faw weeks. As soon as he is na many, Sherpas as possible will fore history?".
die died in batile for some forgotten have to be used to take the M. Joffroy come upon her antique treasures, ever material right up to the South after two years, of digging in covered in Goula
up
women-
Regular followers of Nathaniel
the
Gubbins, whose column appears in
China Mall every Wednesday, will be sorry to hear that he is on the sick II, and will not be writing for à
rumiciently recovered, tho | column will be resumed,
CHERRY BLOSSOM NAVY sails with a waltz
F
!!!תיו
Tokyo, Tuesday. SET sail today with the Japanese Navy. Half of
it. Fifteen motor launches and trawlers and an un- armed harbour vossel That was the flagship.
Ordinarily it spenda" the tinie Ifting and laying buoys around Yokohama harbour, Today, "It cartled an assortment of Hold- bralded foreign observers, a few reporters and photographers. and a quavering 20-pleco band...
Every effort was made to make this an occasion. "Aftet, aliii; la Bve years that the Japanese Imperial Fleet was rebornje n
The band struck up as we slid away from the quay. No martial music-a Strauss wallz slightly off-key led the jostling line of tiny warships out to seu.
The bandsmen, sweating, in the morning sun, plaget?" "the Skaters Waltz as we passed the "old Japanese cunal anchorage.
Gold stripes
REAT battleships, squadrons U of cruisers, flotillas destroyers and submarines hid swung at anchor here before the world's third largest navy long- cd off to destruction in the South Pacific.
This navy is still not-a-navy," a gold-braided offteer explained. "Japan is allowed no utmed forces. We Bre officially the Maritime Safely Agencyn civilian organisation."
14
LIL
He indicated the four gold: stripes on his sleeve.
1 by "Not
caplain," he a naval said. "My title in Arst-clas safety offcial. We call our admiral the director
On his cop was a complicated gold badge.
thamis
"The decoration. ls, mildly blossom, he explained, .cherry
by the doverot "nurmounted pruce."
The harbour boat was rolling in the light swell. Most of the bandsman looked pale. Ther relapsed into miserabla: allence. Brightly coloured" bunting from the yardarmis. futtered The warships turned from line ahead to inc abreast and back again. The manócilvico WCTO
over.
Too costly
--
THE first-class safety ofcfol was almost apologetic." "We have
hetter ships than this. freighters presented by the United States, 23 landing craft, and some mineswber
are occin What you
Ten
more of a coastguard organla tlon. Of course, we aduld like
something better, but Japan
Itup afford cannot Yoshida himself: baz said:thu cost of one battleship would. wreck our economy. Even our modest building programme has not yet been approved by Parliament.
The Japanese naval force turned back towards Yokohama. Back through the great tmply anchorage.}.
The Japanese officer glaneet towards it.
To think," he mid
commanded a cruiser!!
x.bace
FLASHBACK. At the timest the attack on Pearl Harbour
estimated to have Japan was
10 battleships, three majoninis- craft
35 cruisers, 100
carriers,
destroyers, 70 submarines.
At the end of the war ins.
U.S. said Japan had fewer than 80 fighting ships
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