Word: devis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur B. Emmons will describe the ascent of Mt. Nanda Devi in a free public lecture at the Institute of Geographical Exploration this evening at 8 o'clock...
...work of the British-American party which last summer reached the peak of Nanda Devi, the highest summit ever climbed by man, will be outlined. The mountain, 25,660 feet in elevation, is located at the source of the Ganges river, and is considered by Hindus a "sacred mountain...
Three members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club were included in an Angle-American Expedition this summer which scaled for the first time Nanda Devi, highest mountain in British India. The Harvard scales were Adams Carter '36, William F. Loomis '36, president last year of the club, and Charles Houston '35. Arthur M. Emmens '35, another former club member who in 1934 conquered Minya Konka, a mountain in eastern Tibet, was also on this expedition...
...Nanda Devi lies in a region difficult of approach in the headwaters of the Ganges. The mountain itself is technically hard, being of the precipitous Materhorn type and rising sharply from a plateau 15,000 feet in elevation...
...however, is the problem of getting through the range of mountains which surround it and almost completely prevent access to it. These peaks lie in an unbroken range of about 22,000 feet and enclose a valley or plateau in the center of which stands the single peak Nanda Devi...