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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23.
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Niterally holding on to their tent for their lives. That, half-starved and exhausted by exposure that was not implicit in the under taking, they struggled neverthe- Mountless to within half a mile of the | EverestTM is the title of a newly-summit on the following day issued book by Brigadier Gener-justifies all that Captain Finch st the Hon. C T. Bruce and claims for his oxygen. other members of his Everest ex-
THEIR STRUGGLE. pedition.
These olaims if substantiated This account of the attempt to may make the first ascent the
· The human voice is photograph- resch the top of Mount Everest last great climb in the old style. ed by a special method on
which is not may be regarded as the second If so, it is worthily described by separate film. volume of a trilogy of which the Mr. Mallory, who brings home to connected with the picture film. voice film can be third should be entitled "The the reader something more than Thus the
which is | Conquest." The first volume, the physical struggle. He has a handled separately,
The Reconnaissance" described passage on the vigil which recalls regarded as a great advantage. how the party led by Colonel Whymper at bis most suggestive. The same apparatus can be used
for the ordinary picture film. Howard-Bury in 1921, found out
WAS accompanied by
The audience was much exactly where Mount Everest Major Norton. Dr. Somervell,
results dew The impressed by the was, how they satisfied them-and Major Morshead. salves that there was a route to conditions were less unfavour monstrated by the inventors. the summit which offered no able, and without oxygen they Professor P. O. Pedersen, Director obviously insuperable obstacles made their way at a definitely of the Polytechnic High School, to expert climbers, and how they slower rate than Captain Finch Copenhagen, who worked with came to recommend certain to a height of 26,985ft. Theirs M. Valdemar Poulsen (a pioneer methods and devices for overcom-was a struggle between men and of wireless telegraphyk declares that the problem has been solved ing the peculiar difficulties of the mountain, and they were so ex- country and the climate. The hausted on reaching camp that and in the only possible way. second expedition, led in 1922 by Mr. Mallory was calling Major The invention will be demon- General Bruce, profited by the Morshead. Longstaf. Vivid as strated in England and America information acquired to climb to Mr. Mallory's account is there is in the near future. the greatest height yet attained one feat of which he does not on any mountain; of 29,000ft make enough. The party ware 1.700ft the height of Duakery very tired and a little careless: Beacon-romain unscaled, but we from fatigue; number three on get the impression that there is so the rope slipped, foar was jerked much further assistance to be de-from his foothold, and two for rived imm oxygen, with which lowed; in a moment the three the party were experimenting, were gathering speed on a slope that given favourable conditions where nothing would stop them the top should be reached at the until they reached the plateau next assault.
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others who once use "these Tablets never again resort to the old-fashioned teething powders sad purgative's usually given to 3,500ft. below. The leader, un- children, for Baby's Own Tablets There were twelve other named, but presumably Mr. inspire confidence from the very Englishmen in the expedition led Mallory, moving himself and first dose. by General Bruce; Colonel E Lwarned only by the sounds be- Strutt. second-in-command: Dr.hind, struck the pick of his axe Longstaff, doctor and naturalist:'into the snow, hitched the rope Captain Noel, official photogra-round the head of it, and man. pher: Captain C. G. Morris, Mr.jaxe, and rope held up the three 2. G. Crawfurd, and Captain! who were slipping: Mr. Mallory J. G. Bruce. transport officers; seems to think well of the rope.— an! Captain G. Finch, expert in Times. charge of the oxygen apparatus :
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Wakefield. Major Norton, and. An outstanding competitor at the Major Morshead were specially autumn open meeting of the Hay-health-giving sleep climbers, and with them must beling Ladies' Golf Club was Miss Guaranteed absolutely pure, included the Gurka, Lancenaik Joan Marshall, the 16-year-old and safe even for the youngest Tejbir Bura. The book is put daughter of F. H. Mar-infant. Baby's Own Tablets can forward on the lines of its pre-shall the well-known lawn tennis be had from chemists, or post decessor; Sir F. Young-husband player. She secured first prize free. 60 cents the vial, from Dr.
introduction :lia the Bronze Division open Williams. Medicine Co. General Bruce, a general nar-medal round, first prize in the Kiangae Road, Shanghai rative of the axpedition: Dr. Bronza Divisoä (members), the Somervell, notes on acclimatiza- Bryans Cup for the best net tion, colour in Tibet, and Tibetanscore, the Autuma Challenge culture; and Dr. Longstaff. a} Cup (bogey) and second prize in¦ paper on natural history. The the Eclectic Bogey Competition. course of the journey to Everest and the conditions of the ascents are elucidated by maps and by photographs, which reach the standard of beauty and clearness previously attained by the Ever- est Committee. Of the three formal attempts to reach the top| the first and the disastrous third are described by Mr. Mallory, and the second-the attemp: with oxygen-by Captain Finch.
STRATEGY AND PLANS. From the reception accorded to the expedition it is clear that General Bruce, who was respon- sible for the strategy, did his rat. How does one placate a Dzongpan? One gives him a Homburg hat! How does one convince a Lama that to climbi 29,000ft, a natural proceeding?¦ One calls it a pilgrimage; and while one is about it, as the butter of ceremonial hospitality is raucid. one mention a row not to touch butter until the sum- mit has been attained. All these things General Bruce did, and he brought caravan comprising some 200 yaks to his base camp at the earliest date that the! Tibetan winter allowed. There appears to be nothing in Everest to daunt experienced cimbers, if height and distance were on the Alpine scale. The top is hard to reach because the wind is strong and of course cold. and because the air is thin. The reader willi infer multiplicity of camps, the! complicated organization required to establish and maintain them. and low progress. Without oxy. gen 400ft an hour was good going. The climber therefore has to be acclimatized, and trained to esert himself to the utmost. Moreover, it is now clear that the conditions differ so widely-from the Alpine that until the first have been mastered a wide margin of safety must be allowed. The last attempt resulted in the death of seven porters. On snow moisten- ed by the monsoon they were overwhelmed by an avalanche. The English climbers were swept down also but escaped ankort. Those in charge were neither rash nor ignorant of the effect of wet wind.
In the second attempt Captain Finch and Captain Bruce reached Ja height of 27,3008. As Captain Finch tells the story the issue was fought out less between men and mountain than between wind and orygén. """The party WAS stormbound on the edge of a precipice for thirty-six hours.
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