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...years ago Dr. Paul Bauer took Bavarian mountain climbers to scale 28,146-ft. Kanchenjunga on the India-Thibet frontier. Blizzards and avalanches thwarted the party. Last year another German group under Professor Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth tried, failed, turned to and surmounted neighboring Jonsong Peak, altitude 24,340 ft. This summer Dr. Bauer again essayed Kanchenjunga...
...hope of ever reaching the top of Kanchenjunga, 28,150-ft. Himalayan peak (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Disliking to return home with a blank page to show for a season's work, this most elaborate climbing party that ever set forth moved twelve miles north, started up Jonsong, 24,340-ft. brother of Kanchenjunga...
Last week dispatches to the New York Times told how, on June 3, two German climbers had reached Jonsong's pinnacle, highest yet scaled by man. Five days later another four made the ascent. As the latter group climbed they could see Everest, 50 mi. away, down whose appalling sides six years ago Arthur Comyn Irvine and George Leigh Mallory tumbled to their death after attaining higher ground (over 28,000 ft.) than any man before or since...
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