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...last few remaining spots on earth to defy human explorers is the icy tip of Mt. Everest, 29,141 ft. high. Many expeditions have tried to claw their way up it. In 1924 G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine, who reached a point above 28,000 ft., may have reached the summit; they disappeared in a mist and were never seen again. All who have tried to climb Mt. Everest have been beaten by the near-stratospheric cold, the almost continual gales, the treacherous, sliding snow and the thin, high...
Young Buddha. It took two weeks to reach the Buddhist monastery of Thyang-boche at 13,000 ft. on the approaches of Mt. Everest, where the party stayed as guests of a 16-year-old reincarnation of the Buddha. Mrs. E. S. Cowles of Colorado Springs, the only woman along, was welcomed with the rest and even allowed to witness impressive Lamaistic rituals-a very unusual honor for a woman, but Mrs. Cowles is one of the world's leading alpinists. Perhaps the teen-aged Buddha was too much impressed with her to treat her as a female...
Snowy Plume. Dr. Houston and Major Tilman camped on a high ridge and climbed to about 19,000 ft. to study the south face of Mt. Everest. Even at this great height (about 3,000 ft. above the summit of Mt. Blanc), they saw tracks of rabbits, mice and snow leopards. There was no snow except in crevices, but above their heads a vast plume of snow whipped off the icy summit, blowing out miles downwind like a gigantic pennant. They made maps and took photographs. Then they rejoined the rest of the party and returned to New Delhi...
...story for Everest climbers. "The south face," said their report, "presented much greater climbing difficulties than the north side. The southern face is precipitous and broken by long and intricate ridges, which would be technically difficult and dangerous. The south face may well be impossible, and we could see no practicable climbing route...
...this pessimistic judgment is correct, Mt. Everest may remain unconquered for a long time. Tibet, which owns the easier northern slope, is in the process of becoming a part of Communist China. It is not likely to welcome U.S. or British alpinists, and Asians have never shown much interest in climbing difficult mountains...