Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play a part in the tests to be conducted next spring in the high Himalayas of British India by the Fatigue Laboratory of Harvard University, in co-operation with Cambridge University, England, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Field work will be carried on for five months from abase camp at 17,500 feet near Leh, the ancient capitol of Little Tibet...
...vale of Cashmir, April 15 and begin the 330-mile caravan journey on the famous Turkestan-Cashmir route, the highest road in the world. Twenty-five native drivers will accompany the 100 horses and 20 yaks which will carry six tons of food and equipment to the base camp site...
Anthropological studies of the natives will be made by Mr. Bowles in the Ladak country, ju which the base camp will be located. The people are known as Ladaki, and are almost entirely of Tibetan stock. They are Lama Buddhists in religion. The famed Cashmir wool comes from Ladak...
After a long search for the highest possible ground where they could carry on experiments to be conducted for six months, the group chose the plateau at the edge of Tibet, which they could reach from India. The site of the camp will be near the shore of Lake Tso-Moriri, recently surveyed by a Yale geologist, at altitudes of from 17,000 to 22,000 feet. Starting from Bombay the expedition will go north through Kashmir and 400 miles across passes as high as 17,000 feet...
...hunting expedition out of Uvalde, Tex., John Nance Garner shot a deer, became lost, climbed a tree, plunged ten feet into thick brush. Nursing scratches and a sprained knee, he limped into camp 300 yd. away...