Mount Everest.
CABLE NEWS.
EXPLORER'S IMMENSE DIFFICULTIES. “ THE TIMES ” SERVICE. (Received Tliis Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 16. A despatch from Tingridzom of the 16th July, states reconnaissances and approaches to Mount Everest by Mallory and Bullock reveal the chief obstacles to progress are great glaciers. The streams at present are unfordable, though there are occasionally rickety bridges up Rongbux Valley A view was obtained of giant precipices from the north-west face of Mount Everest. The monastry of Rongbuk is situated 16,500 feet up. It is a curious place. There, from three to four hundred hermits and nuns live in solitary cells and caves. No news of the outer world ever penetrates to them. Wild animals and birds are extraordinarily tame. The reconnoitering party camped at a height of IS,OOO feet, from which they surveyed the terrible precipices, almost sheer, 10,000 feet down llongbuk glacier, with difficult rock climbing guarding the approaches and high ridges. August will be devoted to an examination of the north-western and eastern faces of Mount Everest. At the end of July, the base camp will 1)0 moved to Koharta in A run Val-
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1921, Page 3
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189Mount Everest. Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1921, Page 3
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