MOUNT EVEREST.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1922, Page 5

MOUNT EVEREST.

RIGHT LINE OF ATTACK HIT UPON. A lecture was given on Mount Everest by Mr. George Mallory, who was a piaster at Charterhouse, and who led the climbing party in the recent expedition. Brig.-General the Hon. C. G. Bruce, C. 8., who will be chief of the new expedition, presided. Genera} Bruce said last year's work was the greatest possible success. No less than 13,000 quare miles of new country were mapped, and the results gained’ both of natural history and of botany, were most interesting. lh ® parties explored the glaciers north or Everest.' and were enabled to hit upon the right line of attack, on which a.J hopes were now based. Mr. Mallory gave a delightful account of some of the manners and customs of the inhabitants and of the countries through which the party went. J->oet was really a bleak country, but it had moments of wonderful beauty. The natives seemed to suffer from devil®. To escape their influence they indulged in dancing and the more they danced the less they suffered from the evil ones. As to some of the dwellings, it was difficult to say whether they were the habitations of beasts or men Most of the streets were scored with ditches of mud—and the least said about the mud the better. The people were most hospitable. After many adventures the party at last saw Everest. It was always a Question whether a. mountain looked as big as it ought to look. There was no doubt that Everest was an mountain. Mr. Mallory sard Tro thongnt a way had been found to the top ot the mountain.