MOUNT EVEREST.
GREAT GLACIER STREAMS. LIFE AT 16,500 FEET. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, August 16. A dispatch from Tingridzong, dated July 16, states that the reconnaissance of the approaches to Mount Everest by Messrs. Mallory and Bullock reveals that the chief obstacles to progress are the great glacier streams, which are at present un fordable, though there are occasional rickety bridges. Up the Rongbuk Valley a view was obtained of the giant precipice which forms the north-west face of ’Everest The monastery of Rongbuk is situated 16,500 feet up. Tt is a curious place. There are from 300 to 400 hermits and nuns who live in the valley in the greatest seclusion in solitary cells and caves. No news of the outer world ever penetrates to them. The wild animals and birds are extraordinarily tame. The reconnoitring party camped at a height of 18,000 feet, from which they surveyed the terrible precipices, almost sheer 10,000 feet down, the Rongbuk glacier, with difficult rock climbing, ■ warding the. approaches to the higher ridges. August will be devoted to an examination of Everest. At the end of July the base camp will be moved to Kaharta in the Arum Valley.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1921, Page 5
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197MOUNT EVEREST. Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1921, Page 5
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