EVEREST EXPEDITION
EXPLORATIONS IN UNFAVOURABLE WEATHER l j CROPS IN HIGH COUNTRY By Telegraph—Pres# Association— Copyright 1 London, September 22. The Mount Everest expedition is continuing its explorations in unfavourable weather. Colonel Bury’s party crossed the Hamjunla ridge at a height of 15,006 feet, and thence passed, through a valley with fourteen lakes in it. They scaled Mount Chogia, '16,106 feet high, and campod at ft holy lake, where pilgrims walk round burning incense, and throw spices into tho waters. Thence the party wont to Sakideng, where there was once ti large village, reputed to have boon wiped out by a plague sent by a local demon. The demon is reported to bb still active, and the people arc afraid to rebuild. Tho place is amongst much fine timber, and the party passed a zone of great silver firs, measuring up to 20 and 25 feet in girth. At the village of Ltrngooe, which is 12,000 feet above the sea, they found crops of millet, maize, nnd<pumpkins. All the country to tho northward is flooded. —“The Times.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 1, 26 September 1921, Page 5
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177EVEREST EXPEDITION Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 1, 26 September 1921, Page 5
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