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...overwhelming lassitude and an indifference to danger. Such a fate may well have overcome Britain's George Leigh-Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine, when the swirling mountain mists cut them off from view in 1924 as they struggled up the last 1,000 feet of towering, forbidding Mt. Everest.* Why do men tackle a forbidding mountain? Mallory had his own understated explanation: "Because it's there...
...Because Everest was still there last week, and because six British onslaughts on the mountain have ended in death or defeat, a party of Swiss Alpinists took off from Geneva for the long flight to India. Their plan: to conquer Everest from, a new, untried approach...
They devised a vacuum chamber in which they have exposed hundreds of pregnant white mice, each for a period of five hours, to a shortage of oxygen similar to that 28,000 feet up, the height of Mt. Everest...
...explorer's legend cropped up again last week-the "Abominable Snowmen" of the Himalayas. Reporting on his sixth expedition to Mt. Everest, British Explorer Eric Shipton described in the London Times a hard, four-day climb to a great glacier near the high peak of Menlungtse. There, in the thin snow, he found the well-marked footprints of a strange, four-toed creature. Sen Tensing, the native guide, identified the tracks as the spoor of two "Yetis"-the same weird ogres first reported by an Everest expedition of 30 years...
Back home in England, scientists decided that these latest tracks belonged to some kind of bear-Ursus arctos isabellinus, perhaps. One Everest climber suggested that the prints had been made with snowshoes manufactured by the Snowmen. Yet no one was really satisfied...