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...Ganges River at foot of majestic Himalaya Mountains, sons of Nippon look for some crocodiles...
...rule, Protestants forget their saints, but last week Protestants in Manhattan honored Mary Reed, a gently indomitable old lady in India who is the greatest living apostle to the lepers. The occasion was the 50th anniversary of her heading Chandag Leprosarium in the Himalaya foothills...
...after two years, four months of nationwide search and tension, dashing Georgia Belle Scarlett O'Hara was a wispish little English girl with a neatly clipped British accent. Born in Darjeeling, India, in the Himalaya Mountains, Nov. 5, 1913, she spent the first five years of her life in Calcutta, about which she remembers nothing. Later she attended convent school near London with Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan. Still later Vivien Leigh studied dramatics. Married in 1932 to Barrister Leigh Holman (whose first name plus her own first name she uses for a stage name), she has a little...
Adding to an impressive list of expeditions, four members of the Mountaineering Club will leave New York tomorrow to join the British-Himalaya Expedition in an attempt to climb Nanda Devi, the highest peak in the British Empire...
Nanda Devi is 25,662 feet in height and located in the Sikhim Himalaya range, about 60 miles from the Tibetan border. Although there are nine higher peaks than Nandi Devi, including Everest, none have ever been climbed, and, unless Everest goes down to defeat this summer, success in reaching the summit of Nanda Devi would give the Harvard climbers the honor of scaling the highest peak ever reached...