ON HIMALAYAS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1930, Page 6

ON HIMALAYAS

TO TACKLE ANOTHER PEAK

[United Press Association--By Electric Telegraph Copy rght. J

LONDON, June 18

Advice from the Jonsong Peak base camp dated May 31st, states: -Mount Kinchinjunga lias beaten us, but we are prepared to attack the .Jonsong peak, which is 24,310 feel high, and is -he northerly outpost of Mt Kinchinjunga,. in an effort to gain the highest Himalayan summit yet reached. Its precipices rival those of Kiiichinjunga in height and grandeur. These precipices are defended by ice walls of enormous thickness, from which avalanches continually break off, thundering down thousands oi leet. Schneider and Wieland have discovered a practicable route up .Jonsong. and Scneider alone lias climbed a

23.370 unnamed peak. Hhe Himalayas, however, take a defeat hardly. That night they threw down boulders towards our camp, and nearly annihilted Smythe, who was sleeping peacefull, and lie awoke to hear a series of crashes. He realised that the boulders were descending on his tent. He realised also that there was nothing to do but to huddle up in his sleeping bag. Later on, he found a huge rock embedded in a snowdriftonly three yards behind his tent.“ Two days later another fall nearly killed Frau Dyrcnfurth.