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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1958.
IN SEARCH OF A THREE-TOED MONSTER
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snowman.
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in five hours without oxygen turbed, Other objects are to was born at Swindon, Wilt--and is wrapped in tribal during blizzard." He also survey and map the unchart- shire, is a Fellow of the superstitions, Is worshipped reported that the men were ed regions of Kilimanjaro Royal Geographical Society, and feared by warrior ex-R.A.F. pilot who tribes for miles around, and nhowing strain due to fati- above 16,500 ft.; to examine an
search caves,
who
THE MEN
with Father Fred Trum-
It to
Indeed
however, bas heavy snow- falls, strong winds and a rarefied atmosphere, and presents many physical ob- stacles. These make it im- possible to carry heavy and
into the crater, where Tun- stall, Father Trumbull and possibly, Dr Martyn will be the first men ever to stay
OME years ago the spoors of a three-toed mon- stor-they were six gue and sunburn and were the ice crater for signs of pioneered the use of gliders is in the heart of Tangan-
to volcanic activity; and to as an invasion weapon, anyika's elephant country. inches deep and eight returning to 14,000 ft,
record the expedition's work, ex-film producer (films he presents little difficulty foot apart-were seen Supported and equipped on films for use on U.K. and was associated with includ- the mountaineer. in the snows of by the
International Wool U.S.A. television networks. ed "The Yellow Canary". Kibo, the higher of the two "The Tawny Pippit", "Men peaks (19,340 ft.) has been It was an executive of an of the Worlds") and an ex- climbed many times before. Mount Kilimanjaro. Secretariat and with scienti-
fie apparatus loaned by the English bank who was with perienced volcanologist. He The last 3,000 feet up the Now an Englishman Royal Geographical Society, an expedition to Kiliman- led expeditions to Kiliman- face of the peak of Kibo, leading a party of six the expedition has several jaro nome years ago jaro and to the Congo vol
ex- canoes in 1948. is trying to confirm other exciting objects. Great first told the present
African elephanta have pedition leader about the contradict the been observed on numerous three-toed monster. He re- theory that Africa occasions well above the lated this story: "We climb- has an "abominable lower slopes of Kilimanjaro ed to the summit, arriving -often at seemingly im- shortly after 10 a.m. and, possible heights of
over after a short rest, decided HE will live in the crater elaborate equipment up and 16,000 ft--and the expedi- to walk to the other side of bull, who Is an ex Lion hopes to find in one of the crater (about two miles perienced mountaineer and the many Inves on the away).
iri charge of the Roman Mount's slopes what may
was Catholic mission in Kilema. "Our native guide well be Africa's biggest elephant graveyard, where obviously nervous-mutter- The remaining members of these huge animals go when ing to himself in Swahili and the party-five students of their days are numbered.
glancing around. He tried to Capetown University and dissuade us from staying. the University of Pretoria- will help haul the equip- then "We were very tired so wo ment to the summit decided to leave all unneces- return to a rest hut Fary equipment in a large 17,600 ft. Nigel Glover, who haversack near where we was mentioned earlier, is a had rested. We put the third year Rhodes student African runner and cabled jaru the age-old tomb of haversuck on a high place in who is majoring in geology
1, the snow, from Moshi, is that the ex- the Emperor Menelik
of King Soloman pedition, after living in
"It took us two hours to icicle-festooneri
at and the Queen of Sheba,
crnter; 17,000 feet, has established and founder and first ruler walk around the the first ever camp at the of Ethiopia. Menelik, who when we returned, we found mortally the haversack opened and is the contents strewn about that a member of the expedi. wounded from a battle, tion, Nigel Glover, a 24 said to have requested his over an area of 25 feet. year-old Rhodes scholar. bearers to take him up the
a first- "performed incredible feat volcano where he might die aid kit, a compass, books, bull to the crater.
and where his carrying tent single handed peacefully up fifty-degree icecap slope tomb would remain undis- tins of meat and a pressure
The party is the British Killmanjaro Expedition, the objects of which include the testing of specially-made woollen garments during, a month's stay un the thick ice which covers the two- mile-wide floor of Kiliman- jaro's now silent ernter, the ice-covered walls of which are 600 ft. deep.
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"Film packages,
stove hud boen scattered into the deep snow. But nothing had been stolen."
The party was unable to investigate as there was only just time to return to the neurest hut before dark, and one man was already suffer- ing from mountain sickness,
TELE-SHOOT
at
and geography, and he will undertake most of the pre- work liminary geological
the until Dr G. Martyn, Kenya geologist, joins the expedition. Born in Yeovil, Somerset, it is likely that Dr Martyn will accompany Tunstall and Father Trum- (Some naval oflicer time ago a stationed at Mombassa took readings in the crater and found that the temperature was rising In the bed of the. crater, but was freezing 10 feet above the bed.)
The other members of the expedition are Colin Glover, a 22-year-old South African and engineering student brother
Mr John Tunstal woaring some of his shoopskin kit,
by John Falkland
Astride the Equator, this old
is in a constant. temperature of
A long-distanco photograph showing_Kilimanjaro's snow-topped heights wreathed In clouds.
E
tic fibres were not too satis- factory,"
John Tunstall asked
if sleeping-bags for the party could be designed in sheepskin so that their efficiency could be tested. In addition to these, the party will wear knitted
such wool garments sweaters and gloves, and sheepskin lined anoraks. In 40 degrees of frost warmth is vital for survival, so that without it, all could be lost and nothing achieved.
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During their stay in the crater the men will attempt to make radio contact with aircraft passing over Kill- manjaro en route for Moshi or Dar Es Salaam.
The expedition set out from Moshi at the foot of the jungle-covered lower slopes of Kilimanjaro on January 1, and John Tunstall reported then that snow
could be seen as far down as 4,500 ft. from the summit of Kibo.
While the сусь of Nigel Glover;
of the world are focussed on Dr Angus Cross (20) a veterin-
Their month's stay on the frost, John Tunstall was Fuchs and his Common- ary student who came to for a whole month. Previous Pretoria 6 years ago from visitors have been compelled ice will not be very comfort anxious to obtain the best wealth Trans-Antarctic Ex-
in the Edgware to start back again to the able, for their only cover birthplace,
world's THIS story gave John Tun- his
coldest continent this new stall, the leader of the Bri- (Middlesex); Andrew Gruft fourth hut after a few hours, against 100 m.p.h. winds possible sleeping bags. Men pedition tish Kilimanjaro Expedition, (20) who is an architectural for darkness descenda very which lash the peak of Kibo who participated in Mount
will be a tent. As they will Everest expeditions have expedition now sets out on a snow and ice adventure on the hope that with the aid student born at Twickenham quickly on Kilimanjaro.
sleep on the ice at a constant complained that "the sleep the Equator, in the world's of certain devices, such as (Middlesex); and Neville C.
A further obstacle against temperature of 40 degrees of ing bags made from synthe hottest country-Africa, placing brightly coloured Owen (20) a veterinary objects in the snow. to at student who was born at the carrying of heavy equip- tract the creature, it might Cardiff (Wales). Andrew ment le the inborn fear of: even be possible to capture Graft will be in charge of every native of the wrath it, or at least learn more of mapping and surveying for of Kibo. This makes it dim- cult often Impossible to its habits. In searching for the expedition.
obtain bearers. this mysterious three-toed
To avoid high altitude monster,
John however,
Apart from their geolo- Tunstall's finger will be an sickness or severe headaches,
ROUND-UP
BONN
lish.
times for many of Luneburg'a trademen.
British troops spent freely. Cafes, Ash and chip shops, and cincanas have sprung up Шко ng by the Saxons and the Eng- mushrooms since the British moved in after Montgomery ac- But the British have not been cepted Germany's marrender
heath thirteen year happy in their Luneburg bar on the chier Himmler committed racks once the
pride of 46o. sulelde and Hitler's north- Goorings Luftwaffe.
Luneburg where Gestapo
the trigger of nothing more the leader and Father Trum- gical studies in the crater,TE British are moving out of lethal than a cine camera, for bull may find it necessary to where the ice is from 40 ft. it has been found impossible wear oxygen masks during to 100 ft, deep-and is be-
to increase the loads to be their ascent of the last loved to have accumulated western armles surrendered to For months last year the Bri- JERUSALEM
the
Just
carried by including fire- 3,000 ft. from the fourth over the last 20,000 years at Montgomery.
fsh troops had to face a nervo hut. This hut and three least the three men will
Tite 3,300 strong garrison-racking Tommy Go Honc" arms and ammunition.
others, at 10,000 ft., 12,600 try to reach what may well Britain's largest in Germany campaign. There were almost THE tomb of Jacob's wife,
clashes between
Rachel, were prove to be a pre-historic and the nearest to Soviet-held nightly
outside It is hoped that, at the ft., and 10,000 ft.,
troops and German
an Bothlehem, has been desecrated ago animal which is embedded territory will close within a British
according to very least, it will be possible erected many years
youths in the city sparked by Jordanians, to attract the monster with- when Germany held the in the clear, green ice and year.
off by bitterly
itish speakers in the Knesset (Isrvel's anu-British has been seen on previous
parliament). Twa thousand German articles in the Germany press. a camera territory. in the range of
occasions. If they are able civilians who work for the Bri- Now the critics in the town
Inscriptions have been de- with a powerful telephoto
Kilimanjaro is a strange to remove the body they dish in the 1000-year-old city are beginning to remet their faced, opprobious epithets have lens.
The British with been scribbled over it, and the volcanic mount for it has will arrange with the Na- have already been given notice. hastiness.
snow and ice-capped tural Museum to have it pre- towa
Laneburg has been a garrison drawal from the historie heath Nazi swastika wod recently Tunstall, a stocky, square- two
centuries, occupied at not only means sudden un plastered over the walls of the jawed 50-year-old South peaks they resemble the served and flown back to different times by Swedes, employment for several thousand monument, it was alleged. African businessman who two humps on a camel's back London.
Russlans and Prussláns, as well townsfolk; It also means hard
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Jordanians were accused tearing up the ancient Jewish cemetery Da tho Mount of Olives and using the sacred stones for building purposes.
The M. Pa asked the govern¬ |ment to bring this matter before
world public opinion.
Mrs
The Foreign Minister, Meir, replied that this was not the time to try to arouse publie opinion abroad. She recommend- ed that the question should go to the Knesset's foreign affaire committee.
KITWE,
|N. RHODESIA
DEEP gloom has settled
copper belt with the full in the world price of the metal-and one of the first casualties of the depression looks like being Apartheid.
A over the Northern hotte
Copper is fetching only about £160 ́a tón, compared with the prak price of £400 a ton two yoors ago.
This week the president of the African. Mineworkers Union, Laurence Katilungu, and Chis brother-in-law, Joseph Mumba, were invited by a Europosa trient into a Europeana-only bar here.
Their presence
aroused only faint interest among the white- mineworkers.
A senior government offelad commented: “It coppie · pilots. drop a little tower, Apartheid whi dlaspitreae
Northern Rhodesia. thought of this solution before."