Word: kanchenjunga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Linked by road only to India, little Sikkim, the size of Delaware, has managed to preserve its identity across the centuries. Its 140,000 inhabitants lead a happy-go-lucky life amid oranges, orchids and 4,000 species of rhododendrons, in lush emerald valleys beneath 28,146-ft. Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain, and Sikkim's "protecting deity of the snowy ranges...
...High in the Himalayas above the Nepal-Sikkim border, members of an expedition led by Britain's Dr. Charles Evans (a veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed...
...First climb Kanchenjunga," runs a well-known mountaineering challenge, "then Yerupaja." Since no one has ever scaled Himalayan Kanchenjunga (though eight men have died trying), anybody in his right mind might conclude that Peruvian Yerupaja ("The Butcher") is strictly for the birds...
...popular literary reputation, for Ford's publisher has spared no pains to provide his forgotten man with a general's escort of trumpeters: "the great English novelist of his time" (Allen Tate); "no novelist of this century more likely to live" (Graham Greene); "a veritable Kanchenjunga* among the current molehills" (Herschel Brickell...
...intended to be literally true to life. It is first & foremost an artist's dream, always larger than life, more drenched with passion and drama. Often tortuously long, always intensely complicated by the mingling of thought and action, it is likely to be too much of a Kanchenjunga for most readers to struggle up. But those who make the grade will find-after a respite in which to get their breath back-that Uncle Toby Ford has laid out a remarkable view from the summit...