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They lay rigid, hearts pound- lung, until the avalanche came to rest and they could haut Bild-
With a furd to safety.
11.
Whirlpool
All în a Doctor's Day-by CEORIC CARKE
DO YOU WORRY ABOUT THAT ODD PAIN?
How at Some people TOW sensitive are you
can take it, simply because they have what doctors call a high pain threshold. It's not merely
.. EVERYBODY HAS those come-and-go twinges; so don't let them get you down courage. What is like a red due to something wrong?". Mr hot needle to one person is Davies peralated.
a matter of
Just a feather to another.
When Mr Davies had some minor footing pains he rushed to see me. Hils wife, on the other hand, who Was made of spinach, wouldn't have telephoned me from Dante's Inferno.
CHANGES
can hit big toe
"I don't say that exactly," I Inswered.
Many pains in the chest and the abdomen, for example, are "She's so tough, a сап- due to silght thrille changes nibal would ask for his in the spine. And other aches money back," Mr Davies can be the result of deranged body chemistry. One of the smiled faintly. "Still, if we worst of this kind being in the are the weaker sex, I sup blg toè joint during an attack the other hood of gout, On pose it is the price we pay
many pains are of muscular for being so sensitive."
origin and these are rarely of significance,
WORRY
The trouble is many people who've had an operation, say, or recently avercome on liess "listen in" to their body as t
if it were a burn it were the Goon Show. They
one calls."
pain
AVEREST, geographically, belay of Hillary's axe, Riddiford coyway they were 10,000 feet up, waded along through acres of Was carried down -to the a height where no ordinary rhododendrons — white, yellow,
then buried in, the animal could survive.
blaskig scarlet. Flowers were so places at once.
From the revnese,
avalanche as the rope came light
thick that the travellers trampled few monicats he held then to make a path and cet all NO horth it is
. So for approached and held him.
in his hand a plece of evidence sides was a vista of peaks and through Tibet. From the
which might have scilled one of waterfalls and forests that Im- south, through Nepal.
the world's greatest mysteries, pressed itselt deeply on his Seven expeditions had tackled
The impact of the find was just memory. new beginning to imprese self on
assume every jab the body gives Evereat, caci one going up the
Hillery when the Sherpas It is times like this when/ the
them means that the old trouble, relatively gentle slopes of the respect for Evercat, they sowly realised his intention to keep it, metalneer forgets the discom-
What people should is recurring, Before their lilness north face, All had produced climbed back down.
Periba lerned forward, matched forts of wind and mow, and realise is that the sensation they wouldn't even have noticed feats of incredible courage and
It. Perhaps at this stage we need the tutt from Hillary's hand, and fighting for breath in the heights. of pain can be a great bless- endurance. Some had reached as
"You menn their ing. It is one way the body threshold has become lowered?" high as 20,000 feet-that in, 1,000 a key to the terms you will read threw it for out over a bluff.
about Everest First, the feet from the summit. Although Western Cwm, Cwm is Welsh "Bohut kharab (very bad)
protects itself. It's why wo Mr Davies asked, no, man had been beyond that word meaning valley-and the Sahib," he said. The Sherpas nit
Boar into the air like an in- "Yes," I said, "The level of
threshold point, the north face was still
depends Western Cwm is the valley at superstitious about their Yell, reckoned to be the city way up the foot of the mountain, Along d Hillary respected them for Down lower the cleca air of ternational goalkeeper when our pain
partly on our mental vutlook. Evereal.
the mountains gave place to the we sit on a tintack. the whole
Think of those fakirs who make length of the Cwm
muggy atmosphere of the plains,
themselves comfy on a bed of They reached the Swiss Bast Leeches were everywhere, Ship- In But polilies reared its ugly lies a glacier that is, hugo
some illnesses, head. Tibet closed its frontiers, and slowly moving block of ice, Camp to find it descriod; but the ton pressed on with
senso of called syringomyelin for scaling off the north face; freni some thousands of feet deep, ashes of a fire still felt warm to
urgency, but Hillery was soon now on, it had to be Nepal or deeply crevassed along its whole ary's hand. Frustrated with bored with the journey. He example, the pain sense may THE nothing. And it looked like length. The glacier comes to on the suspense, he and Lowe started casting about for kicus be lost. Nor can those who
at the Khumbu ice doll. camped the night there and set to brighten it up. Gothing. The southern face, they end
unstable ice out again to find the Swiss. The
suffer from it judge if Even if where cheeks of said, was unclimbable,
They wore travelling along- have broken from the body of Aest sig anyone could muster that near-
of civilisation they side a river when he hit cu the something is hot or cold. vertical slope towards the top, the glacier and tumbled in con- reached was an old man watch notion of inflating his alr Consequently they, may. there was still a fantastic series fusion to the ground beneath. ing over his herd of yaks. They mattress and using it as a mit. come to the doctor with bad of hazards to overcome, the New lumps are constantly break asked him what was the news. It worked beautifully. So ho cigarette burns on their Khumbu ice fall, the Western off the glacier, Between one and he replied that seven of the and George Lowe tied their two
day
seat of trouble is where the pan and the next the
hands. Cwm, id the Lhotse glacier.
whole Swiss party had reached the mattresses together and decided
This lo for from the case, secue is able to change com summit.
to let the river' carry them
Thus a pain in the abdomen can Only the previous year an ex- pletely. But the caly way onto
home,
"But the pains I get are be the result of a pneumonia, or set out to look Everest was vio pedition had
the Khumbu His heart sank. Seven of theml
In the early hours of the not of an attack glacier, and the only way onto It was a terrible perform morning they launched their things," Mr
caused by external a tingling in the hands may bo over the chances from the south. It came to rest a the glacier was via the icefall, It such perfonnance that he
Davies said. due to my extra "Adam's" rib shook its head was no simple as that,
to wonder if it began few roles off,
raft on a fast-flowing stretch of "If it were caused by a tin. at the root of the neck: When water doesn't conia from your radly, and returned to report
possible. They pressed on down river, and sous they had out- the valley, where one of the fest stripped the party on the banks. tack or a lighted cigarette 1 bathroom tap the trouble may that there wasn't a hope. .
people they met was Shipten, en
Hillary began to feel almight wouldn't worry."
well by in the pipes way up- the same errand as themselves,
ly pleased with himself.
stairs in Mrs Compliner's fat,
"But there's nothing organic- ally wrong with you," I sald.
But Shipton wasn't satisfied Neither was Hilary; they wanted to see for themselves. Thus, after setting up Base Camp, the
them set out cae morn ing to have a look at the moun tain. It was September 30, 1951.
LWD
In
that followed the weeks their accident Hillary, Shipte Hillary wished the Swiss party up the leefall and saw before them the whole length of the It was the key to the glacier. mountain. Next year, they said, acxt year we'll come back and get to the top.
5-Mile Finger
Pity and relief struggled
were
This is the life, George," he said.
"Too right. We should have thought of it before."
After a while they realised that their craft was being carried too near the centre of the river.
Pains that originate in- side the body also can be somtehing to be grateful for.
CAUSE
may be 'upstairs'·
Another thing that confuses many is the assumption that the
is.
"You can
pains. You can sing that you get them occasionally."
bless your Beeting
"My Mrs Complainer in the It Joesn't necessarily mean next door flat sings," Mr Davies
At the same time a powerful there is anything unhealthy or sald gloomily. "Every thine sho
roar ceme echoing up the valley. the way the body was a man with morphia,”
„WTONIK. On the contrary, it's does I want to run up there
Rapids!
They paddled furlously
.
"What about the Swiss?" ask ed Hillary. And with a feeling of satis-
"Lambert and Tenzing reach faction at a job well done they et 28,000 feet. They didn't get Their climb onto n nearby retired to Katmandu-where all to the top." ridge was more In hope than their hopes tumbled about them.
Lo- or a woman that he's sitting in expectatico. Hillary admits they They heard that the Swiss had
position or hasn't didn't really expect to see much been given permission to make Hillary. But now it was over, he wards the bank but made no astralued of the southern
slopes; but the only assaults of Everest in could admit the truth to him headway. Then ahead of them eaten enough or a thousand of
that the river wis
other functional mature of that having reached a spur co the 1952.
self. He had hoped and prayed they saw
sort an enormous ridge at 20,000 feet, they looked
that the way would still be open smashing against across towards Everest.
Liko a magnet, the Himalayas for a British expedition in 1953. bluff. On one side of the bluff
You're standing all wrong," and Shipton drew Hillary back There was nothing left for were the rapids, on the other, a
the body shouls, giving you n "To my astonishment," said in 1952. Back in Britain, the Shipton's band. In a matter of huge whirlpool, Willy nilly they
"You've eaten Hillary, "the whole valley lay authorities had decided to send weeks
carried Into the whiri jab in the back. would were revealed to our eyes.”
too many apples," the body A long Shipico out with another ex-break, snow would be avalanch- pool.
"Hold on tight, George,"
prodding. he grumbles,
yout narrow trough swept in an are pedition to keep their hands in kg off the mountains, and the from the foothills
high ca the with some lesser peaks.
They climbing teason would be over, shouted. It's our only chance," helluva poke in the stomach. mountain-side. "Even DA the
started reasoned that the Swiss might They
The frall raft was spurt round the long on
"These odd pains I get, are some thought was simmering in fall la their attempt--if so, they journey home.
in diminishing circles, towards not as simple as that," Mr my mind Shipten said: "There's a
wanted to be ready with trobied Time and again, 10 hear the hollow in the middle. Death route there!" And I could hear men for another assault in 1953. Hillary tell his story, he comes seemed closer to Hillary than it Davies objected.
the note of disbelief in his volce."
sure.
The Yeti
"
the monsociis
+
back to the beauty of the Hima- ever had; and all because of his The chemistry of the body, of Inyas; the rugged splendour of whim. But there was a reprieve course, is complex and some- It was a dimeult route, to be
Everest pointing a inger Ave for them; the ralt was too times the cause of the pain is I would need resources
miles up towards heaven; the buoyent to be drawn under, cnd obscuro. far beyond those of Shipton's
sight of a froza, cascade of ice from the middle they were fung Ilttle bind. But a route it was,
Every single person occasion- all the same.
It would be wrong to say that that can make man scem a small out vlouently towards the edge. In great excite Hillary wished the Swiss party and insignißcent thing:
lino they went on spinning | ally the And
sharp pain that ment, they climbed
down to any f luck. Rather then hoping wealth of colour in the valleys,
round and round until Shipton comes and goes as quickly as: Base.
they would fail, he hoped they Moking his way down to the caught up with them and threw you can say "Ouch." Three days afterwards they wouldn't succeed and that isn't railhead at Jegbtni he presed a rope.
After this, Hillary walked tackled the first of, Everest's quite the same thing.
through a "pardise of flowers." defences to the south the ice- fall. And here, they had a fere- George Lowe the whole of the forcing life in lis thousands of the whole country.
WEDNESDAY taste of dangers to come.
stason was governed by one
Letters from Shipton What was happening forms through the soil. As they made gradual height question. over the broken ground Hillary on Everest? On May 16 Hillary deelded the snow condition and Lowe, after weeks of climb- looked dangerous. But the ing, detoured to get within reach
So for him and Shipton and formed
The monsoca rain had trans back to Jogbani.
of the Swiss. The news was
other three on his rope Shipton, Alddford and Sherpa disturbing. The party had battled Pasang seemed unconcerned. through the icefall and into the Westem Cwm, where they were "Perhaps," thought Hillary, building up supplies for a cinck "I'm being unduly cautious. So he said nothing.
Now Respect
at the zumimit. Sald Hillary: "It made our own efforts acem rather paltry."
They went off to attack co- $ 9.50
other peak, the Nup La, and 18.00
come off with their mission com- They came to a point wirere pleted three weeks later. It was 18.00
the 25.00 they had to traverse that is, now June 5-time when
work sideways across-an almost Swiss should be coming મ 8.50 vertical wall of snow. Hillary, Everest with their story of 25.00 on the end of the rope, felt a success or failure. 35.00 tightening of his stomach muscles deno it? Hillary
Had they
and Lowe
as he drove his ice axe deep in couldn't wait to find out, but set 7.50
the mow. It was kistinct more off to meet them in the Wester 7,50 than cry visible sign of danger Cwm.
take en exira
A curious thlog happened on their way across the pass Lo-
Hillary wards Everest.
Weather.
that made him 15.00 Arm held.";
10:00
wąs
"I had almost persuaded my climbing with two 4.50 self that my fears were ground beaten old Sherpan, Fomba end 1.00 less when, with a sudden crack, Angpemba, when half way up a 3.00 the whole slope broke
Large blocks and started sliding steep pitch Pemba stopped to 1.50 with borrifying rapidity towards pick something off a rock.
1.50
Into
la great exellement he show-
a crevasso. The cow under my .30 feet quivered, slid an inch and edit to Angpemba. Hillary
30 stopped. I throw all my weight asked them what it was cad
30
on the ice axe and, watched the other three bóing swept down
they handed hikmatult of long Sahib. black bristles. "Veil,
Yot is the Yeti" they said. Sherpa word for what we are Sherpa Pasang' managed to pleased to call the Abominable loap ki the air as the ground Snowman, Hillary was Impress- gave way beneath him and delve ed with the enthusiasm of the his axe hard into stable ow Sherpas. He called George Lowe
-- 2.00 | wards, fighting for their lives."
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SUEZ AFFAIRY RIP
The best thing to do abou! these sort of pains is to forget them.
"You don't think odd feating opsins here and thero ate ever1
**1' don't understand why you say this isn't the and of the
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"I suppose you realise, Judkins, that this may well prove another Suez!"
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