Word: everest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highest place in the world is the summit of Mt. Everest, 29,140 ft. above sea level. If any man has set foot on that white pinnacle of the Himalayas none has returned to tell the tale. Up to last week 13 persons were known to have perished in 13 years of trying. Last week the world heard of a 14th victim when three Indian porters arrived in Darjeeling with the story of one man's lone assault...
Last year a plump-faced Briton flew from London to India. He was Maurice Wilson, 37, son of a Yorkshire woolen manufacturer, Wartime infantry captain, holder of the Military Cross. He wanted to land his plane on East Rongbuk glacier (see map try to reach Everest's top from there. The Indian Government refused to let him fly over Nepal, forbade him to make any attempt on the mountain at all, kept him under surveillance. Maurice Wilson held his peace, undertook a severe training regime. He believed that previous Everest expeditions had been overmanned, that the hardiest climbers...
...March, clad in the rough padded jacket and conical cap of a Tibetan coolie, he slipped out of Darjeeling with three porters and one pack pony. When the authorities learned of his disappearance three days later, Wilson was already approaching the Tibetan border. Only the north face of Everest holds any hope of ascent, and the north face lies in Tibet...
...Everest was named for Sir George Everest who measured its height by trigonometry in 1841. At that time, and for decades thereafter, Tibet was almost as remote from the world as Mars, and to this day its Buddhist priests look on Everest as the abode of potent gods. Not until 1920 was permission for a climb obtained from the Dalai Lama, religious and temporal monarch who ruled the bleak uplands from Lhasa. The first expedition spotted the rock shoulder zig-zagging down from the peak to the saddle which was later called the North Col, but wasted its time...
...thanks to Editor Blanchard for straightening out the Brothers Shem Shur for TIME. Last week genial Brother Joodha had a plowed field at Darbhanga smoothed and 30,000 Darbhangans stood around to watch the Houston-Mt. Everest Expedition drop in from Purnea by plane for a ceremonial visit with H. R. H. After a sumptuous banquet and many speeches of congratulation, he next day paraded the mountain flyers to the field with a 37-elephant procession, silver and gold carriages, a monster drum and native band...