NORTHERN HIMALAYAS
SUFFERING DENUDATION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, Oct. 29. The northern range of the central Himilaya-s is undergoing in t'he geological sense a rapid dissolution, according to the statements of members of the Everexpedition, in an interview at Darjeeling. The Am River is not a raging torrent, but a sluggish stream winding painfully through, obstructions of sand and debris. The z inhabitants say that the river sometimes resembles, liquid mud. Nature is making a tremendous onslaught on the northern where not only nave landslips scarred the mountain sides, but the crowns and tops of the mountains are wearing away. A few ice-clad rocky peaks stand out, but they are no longer the mighty .snow-clad ranges as they once existed.
1 Mr. Raeburn says that what they saw were not mountains, but the shapeless, enormous mounds of the great Himalayas. The range containing Everest. Kanchanjunga and Makula, presenting an unbroken chain of snow-clad mountains, gains by the contrast.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1921, Page 6
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