Word: kanchenjunga
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Insurmountable obstacles, a furious avalanche and one death last month caused Gunther O.Dyhrenfurth's mountain climbing party to abandon 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...
...name of Science and Adventure, seek to scale the highest protrusions of the earth's crust. With trembling hand, Correspondent Frank S. Smythe of the London and New York Times pecked out the story on his typewriter in a tent 20,000 ft. up on Kanchenjunga, No. 3 peak (28,146 ft.) of the Himalaya range between India and Nepal, which is being essayed this season by a party under Geologist Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth of Zurich (TIME...
...professor" was Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth, who teaches geology at Zurich, but now leads a mountain climbing party which will soon assault Kanchenjunga. Himalayan peak never scaled by man. The monastery (itself three weeks by trek from the nearest white men at Darjeeling, India) was their last stop ping point before establishing their camp on Kanchenjunga's base, some three miles above sea level...
...Kanchenjunga. For their peak, one of the giant pickets in the fence which separates India from Tibet, the party claims an altitude of 28,150 ft. They rank it next to Everest, world's undisputed highest. In this they differ with the Royal Geographical Society, which ranks K2 (Godwin-Austen)' second with its 28,250 ft., Kanchenjunga third. To negotiate this frigid, wind-beaten giant they will establish six camps spaced along the peak's last 10,000 ft. Husky Sherpas porters will strap 68 Ib. packs on their broad shoulders, grease their faces to ward off the erosive wind...
...will ready themselves. Forcing as much light nourishment as they can, they will make their dash to the treacherous top. As they climb, a few feet at a time, they will be sure that their tandem ropes are tight, that their footing is sure. They are all aware that Kanchenjunga has taken five lives, is willing to take as many more...