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THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1938.
TRIBUTE TO COURAGE
of
The world will pay tribute to-day to seven brave men who have died in the interests science and progress—the crew of the Samoan Clipper, formerly the Hongkong Clipper, which made aviation history by flying the Pacific and inking this Colony with the Pan-American trans-ocean system. The plane was to accomplish even more distinguished work, Piloted by the veteran Edwin Musick, it linked California with Auckland New Zealand, and Musick, the chief pilot, mapped a pioneer's course across thousands of miles
of the Pacific to extend the field of Pan-American Corporation's
This Year they may
F HERE have been six
T
expeditions to Mount Everest, and there is to be a seventh this year.
In 1924 Brigadier E. F. Norton, climbing alone. reached 28,100 feet, less than 1,000 feet from the summit. In 1933 three climbero reached the same elevation.
In 1936 an expedition, en- riched by the accumulated experience of five previous expeditions, got no higher than 22,800 feet, which was reached in 1921 by the first expedition of all.
And the reatan, plain enough from Mr. Hugh. Rutiledge's re- 'cently published book "Everest: The Unfinished Adventure" (Hodder and Stoughton, 253.) is
the weather.
Altitude and its effects on mind and body. acclimatisation, de- terioration, the dealty of the mountain, which is now known to be considerable at 28,000 feet, play no mittor parts, but the weather reserves to itself the casting vote of failure or success,
It cannot be dissociated for a single moment from the Everest adventure, and it is the essential molif, of this book, running through the narrative in a menac- ing undercurrent of wind, cold, snowfall and avalanche.
A
8 Mr. Battledge points out, the fallure of 1936 should παι be stig- matised as ignominious; no failure
where the best that can be done
has been done, and his book pro- vides a convinclue answer to self- appointed crities of another failure."
To be beaten on Everest is no disgrace; indeed, there must be many, among them the members of the 1030 expedition, who cherish a secret gladness that there is something left against which the brute force and mechanisms of this material age cannot prevail, and which in the end devolves on human.skill and human spirit.
Guel reflections and many others are inspired by this book, and a wealth of technical detail, medical, physiological and mech-
leal, merely serves to illuminate still more the ultimate spirit and purpose behind an achievement which is useless from a material- ist's standpoint.
To climb Everest is a pilgrimage, a practical expression of the men- al and spiritual power that has raised man to a footing above the beasts.
S
UCH a theme demands the best, and Mr. Rutt- ledge has given of his. best in a beautifully produced and ilustrated volume in which Mr.
LTD. enterprise and speed communi- Michael Spender's large-scale map
CHATER ROAD.
Jention with another continent.
Test flights went smoothly. The world of aviation, always
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CONQUER
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World's highest mountain photographed from the acropigne, which flew over it during the Everest fight expedition. Shadows were caused by the plane's wing struts.
by F. S. Smythe,
one of the world's greatest mountaineers, and author of several books on the high hills. Was in Everest expeditions of 1933 and 1937.
studied if the problems under- Jying Everest are to be understood. Yet in his 147 pages of personal narrative, Mr. Rutledge conveys to the reader with a rare skil the alms and aspirations, the human strengths and weaknesses inherent in all adventure when men are tried to the uttermost of their mental and physical cápacities.
Contrast is an essential condi- tion of human happiness. To appreciate comfort we must
endure-discomfort:-safety—ls—n- poor thing to him who has never known danger. Perhaps this is one reason why men climb moun- tains.
From the warm, languorous plains of India to the bitter wind- swept ridges of Everest is a lengthy mental as well as physical stride, and Mr. Ruttledge, a good psychologist,, as all leaders must be, gives an Illuminating picture diverse of, widely
conditions, physical and human.
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HC 1 never-ling In appreciation of those who by thought or deed supported him, And he writes: "
the more quixotle the venture, the more men have received the priceless loyalty and inspiration of women."
77 is indeed a fact that
W
understand omen belter than men the motives and deals underlying
"useless" these
expeditions to Mount Everest.
strong
Mr. Rutledge mokes a case for a party large enough for reserves in the event of initiat failure or ness, yet there are many who believe that success is more likely to be achieved by a small, lightly-laden expedition, quick to seize its opportunities and psychologically homogeneous, and that such advantages outweigh the disadvantages he mentions.
Then there is also the question of
which she was heading, limping Transatlantic Bird Flights
on three engines.
want no
better
employing oxygen, set forward, by Dr. C. B. Warren, who was untiring In physiological research. In theory Everest can be easily and safely climbed with na oxygen apparatus,. but in practice there are grave dis- advantages and dangers.
There are many who believe, and I am one of them, that Everest can be climbed, and most safely climbed, without oxygen and that Nature has set no insuperable obstacle.
Mr. Rutledge la rightly insis- tent on the value of mountaineer- The team of ing experience. Olymple athletes advocated by the member of a former expedition would be utterly wasted on Everest. Even years of climbing experience are useless to him who has never -learned-to-walk-uphill-properly.
Economy of effort and rhyth- mical movement are the first essentials in climbing at high altitudes, and allied to these a harmony of mind and spirit which is only gained through experience.
T
HE 1938 expedition will with go to Everest much valuable know- It will fedge at its disposal. know that attempt to reach the North Col during the monsoon season is suicidal.
For the experiences of Mr. E. E. Shipton's reconnaissance party in 1930 and the avalanche which nearly overwhelmed him and Mr.
disaster and the sudden death of lits greatest pilots, watched the
T"
E crossing of the Atlantic by berlund, were recovered, three in P. Wyn Harris in 1936 are abun- calm courage of Musick and his
has been much in Newfoundland, one in Labrador, ant dant proofs that the snow is very flying-boots There is now no doubt that
the publle eye, and the performances one in Davis Strait, west of Green- dangerous when the humid warm airs from the south reach the companions with
all her crew perished. No head- of Cumbria, Caledonia, and Clipper land.
excite admiration on all sides. The Two black-headed gulls marked Ir mountain. and admiration. The Samoan stone will mark their resting-average speed of about 150 miles an Germany crossed the Atlantic-ont Whether or not the summit can
to Mexico and the other the Bar- |Clipper did all that was expected place, no flowers deck their hour leaves one breathless.
It may come to many as a surprise bados. Perhaps even more remark- be reached after the monsoon in doubtful. The available evidence gull-billed terr. of her. Her engines never grave. Somewhere, under the that certain frait feathered creatures ubic is the fight of
have enrried lo success a similar which was marked in Denmark and points to high winds and intense faltered. The southern Pacific oil slick, their bodies are east-to-west night.
recovered in Barbados. A spoon-bil cold, whilst the days are danger- Thus in December of 1927 a large and a heron ringed in Holland, ously short in September and was conquered. But conquest washed by the sea! And that is flock of lapwings reached Newfound-black-headed gull from Britain and October.
On Everest no two seasons are. Iceland found their land from Europe. Ordinarily, the a scoter from
alike. Tho weather may be was not achieved without cost.
in tradition, for these, guilant lapwing is unknown in America, and way us far as the Azores.
comparatively warm and wind- the birds undoubtedly came from
1758, as it was in 1936, with an im- they ins Britain, for It was on her first "pay load" gentlemen
included one which America to Europe
possible mantle of snow on the had been ringed as chick in Cum
West-to-cast crossings are not in mountain and an early monsoon. flight from Californa that
the grave.
berland. After reaching Newfound- land they spread farther west into frequent. A few marking records, or it may be windy and lutensely Samoan Clipper developed cn- We wish to
reveal that Arctic terns breeding on cold. take this op- the mainland of Americn.
Or, for once, there may be a fow The distance covered by the flock the eastern shores of North America,
cross to the shores of windless days between the wrath- gine trouble. Something went portunity of expressing a hum-wns some
2,200 miles, and was
was prob- commonly
Africn. From time to ful winds and the coming of the ably accomplished in 24 hours, at an Europe and wrong with the oil feed in one ble word of appreciation for the average speed of 92 miles an hour, time there are rare vagrants which, monsoon. Then, and only then, is
casterly wind especially in time of very severe the summit likely to be reached. of her four motora, and the work these mea have done, and There was a strong
blowing on the occasion, almost weather, and a-hospice in our warin- The porters. I have left them to
behind the birds. The cr elimé,
the end. for, like the weather, they plane's radio operator called for what their comrades will directly
Meteorological Once estimated the Ohe example was recorded in have a first and last say on Everest. Pagopago and informed that continue to do, for these are velocity of the wind at about 55 Orkney last spring, when an Amerl Buccessive expeditions have trained
can yellow-billed cuckoo arrived in a magnificent body of men. station that the Clipper would souls of vislon who help to break m.ph. at 1,000 feet.
It is possible that the flock was an exhausted condition. There are
NDETERRED by dis- After that, silence. down international barriers and aiming for Ireland-there is regular about a dozen records for this bird migration of-lapwings from both the in Britain, and there is no doubt that
asters on Nanga Parbat, they are ready to offer Even the experts can only lead on towards the elimination Continent and Britain into Ireland-It crossed the Atlantic, almost
but overshot the mark owing to the tainly unaided. It is an Inhabitanti
their all, and their greatest ambi- conjecture what happened next. of frontlers by science and high strong tail wind, Launched upon the of North America and Can from Won 4 to pitch a camp higher
Atlantic, they carried on and com- There is a regular fight picted a wonderful flight.
Creenland and Iceland both to the than ever before on the inhospit south-east and to the south-west able slabs at nearly 28,000 feet. Mr.. These are established air routes, and Ruttledge has paid them many and in the autumn of each year birds great tributes.
There could be no happler end- Other birds such as rooks have which traverse these great aerial Junior Flight Offleer F. A. Blunk been seen as for out as 300 miles highways reach our shores. Thus ing to the Everest saga than that from the coast of Ireland, no doubt the knot and the northern golden one of these men should stand be- attempting a crossing. But in all plover come in enormous numbers, cases recorded the flocks have either many of them arriving as early na sidd the employers he has served so faithfully and well on the highest turned in the course or have perished the beginning of August,
point of the world. !
turn back.
Forced into an emergency land-courage.
ing, it appears, the Clipper's
Captain Edwin Musick
First Officer C. 6. Sellers
Navigator F. J. McLean
First Engineer J, W. Blckrod
Landing on Ships
cer-
his skipper decided to let Ko petrol to lighten the ship. There may have been an explosion. In any event, fire, the most drended
in the waves. They have been Wigeon, which are wild duck and of Iceland, fly known also to land in a completely breed in the north of all mishaps to an acroplane,
exhausted condition on the decks of both south-eastwards to Brildin' and the Continent and south-westwards apparently enveloped the ma-The memory of the deeds of passing ships, S
Other successful diers have been to the coasts of Canada and North thus chine. She dived into the sea, such as these will be an Inspira-kittiwaker, and binck-headed gulls. America, The Atlantic is
Certain kittiwake nestlings ringed on traversed daily in the reasons of
R. 1. M. it seems, close to the point for tion to other generations."
the Farne Islands, off Northum-migration.
Assistant Engineer' 3. A. Brooks Stadio Operator T. J. Findlay
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To-day's Thought- To me high mountains are a “feeling, but the hum (of human cities torture.
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