HIMALAYAN CLIMB
SMYTHE’S NEW VENTURE. LONDON, January 14. “The Times’' states that the mountaineer, Smythe, the conqueror of .Mount Kamet on June SOfch, is now forming an expedition to climb Mount Nanga l’arbat, which is 26,624 feet in height, and the sixth highest mountain in the world. It is a peak dominating the Western Himalaya Range, .and it recalls the tragedy of 1805, when the alpinist Mummery, alter reaching u heighi of Iwont.v thousand feet, was killed by an avalanche with two Gurkhas. while crossing a neighbouring pass.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1932, Page 5
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88HIMALAYAN CLIMB Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1932, Page 5
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