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...amused to read on p. 28 of your April 10 issue about the airplane flight over Mt. Everest. You published the picture of the Maharaja of Nepal and mention how this "wily Mongol above whose small craggy kingdom the flight took place, did not want Britishers taking too many pictures over his head." This is a picture of the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shem Shur Jang Bahada Rana who died some five years ago. It is hard to understand how your reporter got into communication with him since his ashes have long been scattered on the water of the Holy River...
Over & above flagpole-sitting feats and dance marathons there are still some records hung so high and in such out-of-the-way places that few will care to shoot at them. Fortnight ago English airmen flew over Mt. Everest (TIME, April 10). Not so publicized or so spectacular but every bit as jaunty was Aime Felix Tschiffely's recent (1925-27) 10,000-mile horseback ride from Buenos Aires to Washington...
Lord Clydesdale was leading as the two planes slowly climbed to 10,000 ft. He and Lieut. Mclntyre waved at each other that all was well. Thirty minutes later, Everest loomed in sight. After 9 a. m. both planes were at 31,000 ft. over Lothi, southern peak of the Everest group. "Both machines," related Lord Clydesdale, ''encountered a steady down current." At 10:05 the planes found themselves skimming the world's highest peak with a bare 100 ft. to spare...
Sportsman. Like another party of Britons under Explorer Hugh Ruttledge, who were crawling toward the same goal afoot, the Mt. Everest flyers were engaged basically in a sporting proposition. Others had ascended to the stratosphere, descended to the bathysphere, flown all the oceans. The Houston-Mt. Everest group surmounted the last superlative. A famed sportsman was in their midst-Lord Clydesdale. Plump Lady Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon, who underwrote the British Schneider Cup entry in 1931 (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931) gave her name and money to the expedition. Lord Clydesdale gave it éclat. Until last January...
...Everest expedition had permission for only one try at the peak. The Maharajah of Nepal, a wily Mongol, above whose small craggy kingdom the flight took place, did not want Britishers taking too many pictures over his head. To his devious mind the proposed air-mapping sounded like preparation for an invasion...