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siderable experience in alpine diimbing visited Tachieniu and determined to try and make a rough measurement of this snow |mountain:" "Going two and a-half | days beyond Tachionlu he spent throo days at Zongzha. Unfor Tacbieniu, Feb. 13-Is the tunatoly the weather was not. Ganggarla, in eastern Tibet, the favourable. Howover, he got some highest mountain in the world prismatio readings and one Some who have viewed it from vertical or rather two readings. an altitude of 15,000 feet declaro The prismatic readings from that it is 30,000 feet. Of course, Tachionlu and Zongzha, 191 and it has not been scientifically 145, respectively, might easily measured.
give tho situation of the mountain Thore is considerable dispute as the Tsumeishan or the snow and no small amount of specula-mountain. macked 17,000 feet tion as to the actual situation of below Zongzha. the Ganggar Some maintain Mr. Marggraff, as far as wo that this gigantic mountain can know, is the first European to be seen from the Chengtu plain make any attempt to measure and that it is situated in tha this gigantic mountain. With his Chien Chang valley on the way Alpine experience, he was in- to Yunnan. Others have seen it clined to put the mountain
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entered the international com London, Mar. 3.-Ireland has petition for the honour of flying a heavier-than-air machine from Europe to the North Amorican continent.
Plans are in progress for an at- tempt to be made in July undor the direction of the Irish Froo Stato Air Force. The start will bo mado, from Cliffden, on the wast coast of Ireland. That is the spot whore Alcook and Brown flight from Newfoundland in landed after their remarkable 1919, and taking off there on their westward journey the Irish will pioneers of Atlantic flying.
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pass and all agree that it is an Europeans who have scan it. exceedingly high mountain. The This German mountaineer show- quastion is, Is the Tzu-Mei-shan ad tromiondous enthusiasm in of Major Davies' map the white
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below Zong Zha, and given on mountain around Tachionlu to the map as 17,000 fest, the Gang-get a view of it. A party of gar, the surveyor having failed Chengtu University mon has in carry a heavy load of gasoline VANCOUVER MONTREAL NEW YORK: to take in to account the height planned to come in and scienti- and oil. The crow, will consist of fof Zong Zhu, which is 12,000. If fically measure the mountain, two pilots and thie snow mountain is tho Gang- but the disturbed and unsettled Colonel C. F. Russell, comman
д navigator. gar, that would give its height as condition of the roads and country dant of the Free State Air Force, 20,000 feet. Another question, has made this impossible. Is the glacior.
and himself a skilled pilot, prob seen from Mr. Marggraff, who has spantably will be chosen to command Paomashan, Tachienlu, and to-many years in Samon and Java, the flight.. woring above the Ya Ja Gon, the bae usually found in the native height of which is given as 21,000 administration, when any point feet, tho. same mountain which of difference has arisen as to can be seen from Zong Zha. height or distance of any object, In eastern Tibot there are two that the natives are generally very high mountains which rise right. Time and again, and un- to the vicinity of 25,000 feet, per-der repeated questioning,, the haps higher, and are known by Tibetans the Tibetans in Minya, as the maintained that the Zharala, the Minya have Zharala, the male and the Gang-male mountain is higher thun gela the female. The Zhara lies well to the north and the Gangga to the south and the Tibetans say that the Zhara, the male, is the higher of the two mountains. Physically, they both form part of the high snow ranges which divide China from Tibet.. Seen from points 15,000 feet high there are three distinct and separate snow groups, the Zhara lying to the north, the Gongge lying to the south, and the Wali lying to the cast
Two years ago four Europeans crossing a pass in Minya 15,000 feet high obtained a magnificient view of those snow ranges and the impression left on the mind without any actual measurements' was that the Ganggar might be higher than Mount Everest. The Ganggar is a mighty peak and shoots high above the surrounding range.
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A few days ago, Mr. Marggraff,
course, with the direction re- The Irish plan to take the same versed, as that travelled by Alcock and Brown. The distance of 1890 miles was covered by the Anglo- American crew in 16 hours and 12 minutes, but the Irish expect Alcock und Brown had the ad- to require between 20 and 34 hours: vantage all the way of a tail the Gongge, the female mountain.wind, which the Irish heading One peculiar thing about both westward will have to nose into these mountain is their modesty, They have chosen July because Only occasionally and under very weather conditions should then rare conditions will they come be less disadvantagous. into public view. It is possible to be "in the direct range of the Ganggar for ten days and nevor seo it once. The two peaks are frequently enveloped in mists up to 20,000 feet and what is soon above is saldoni believed to bo mountain at all. The American Geographic is well known for its beautiful photographs and these may yet reveal to a wondering world the height and grandour of the Zhara and Gengge.
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The Zhare is known by the Chinese as the "sea son moun tain," there lying around upper rouches a number of inland its
fresh water lakes. This snow mountain is also the rendezvoue of one of the fiercest robber bands on the Tibetan-Chinese border.
There is now some talk of Mr. American
a German mountaineer, with con-Joseph Rock, the
safety margin than Alcock and The Irish will have a greater Brown in their bi-rotored Vimy Vickers. With three motors they can risk the failure of one and still sustain flight,
traveller, coming to the frontier here on behalf of the American Geographical Society. equipped and, well financed as Fully his expeditions are, there is now! some hope that this great snow Rock has done much geographic mountain may be measured. Mr.
try to the south of the Ganggar work in the Yellow Lame's coun-
seen this high mountain. Should and from that point he may have
it prove, as some maintain, that it may ba 30,000 feet high there is something in. store for moun- tain climbers. N'C.D.N.
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