HIGH HIMALAYAN PEAK

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 145, 23 June 1930, Page 9

HIGH HIMALAYAN PEAK

FRAU DRYENFURTH'S FEAT

KEHCHINJTJNGA PAETY

United Press Association—By Electric Tele Eraph—Copyright. LONDON, 21st June. •Messages from tho Jonsong Peak base state that Hoerlin and Schneider climbed Mount Jonsong on 3rd June, and Frau Dryeufurth, Kura, Wieland, and Smythe, with two porters, on tho 6th. Thus sis mountaineers from four nations have ascended the highest summit yet sc led throughout the world, a practical expression of international feeling which every member of the expedition hopes will cement international friendship and goodwill. The first party, consisting of Hoerlin, Schneider, Wood-Johnson, and Smythe climbed from the encampment on the north-west -ridge after a wild night, when "the wind, blowing in 50 degrees of frost, endeavoured to hurl us from the ridge." ■ Schneider and Hoerlin went on ahead. Wood-Johnson, overcome by sudden illness, was unable to proceed, and begged Smythe to go on. The latter, thinking his comrade merely was suffering from mountaiu sickness, consented, but was unable to catch ttie leaders, so he sat in snow 23,000 feet up and watched the two minute dots slowly crawling up the snow slope to the summit. When Smythe, returned, Wood-John-son, who had been unconscious for an hour, recovered and was1 assisted to camp. A terrific storm raged on 11th June, and whl->, most of the mombers of the expedition spent the day in sleeping bags awaiting a chance to assault Jonsong, Frau Dyrenfurth accomplished one of the finest feats of courage and endurance by crossing Jonsongla, accompanied by a coolie and a Nepalese subahdar. ■ ' N After sending on the baggage from Nepal, one Nepalese and a coolie woman succumbed to the effects of exposure. ■ A message published last week stated that the following advice had been received from Jonsong Peak' base camp on 31st May: "Kinehinjunga has beaten us, but we are prepared ;to attack tho Jonsong peak, of 24,340 feet, tho northerly outpost of Kinehinjunga, in an effort .j gain the highest Himalayan summit yet reached. Its precipices rival, those of Kinehinjunga in height and grandeur. These precipices are defended by ice-walls of enormous thickness, from which avalanches continually break off/ thundering down thousands of feet. "Schneider and Wieland discovered a practicable route up Jonsong, and Schneider alone climbed 23,470 feet up an unnamed peak. ;