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Loomis has been in India for some time and has been attempting to establish a cache of food at the base of the mountain before the monsoon, which begins very soon, prevents any passage through the gorge. This bad weather, which will last until the end of August, will make it impossible to do more than go in to the entrance of the Rishinala where the party will wait until the first of September. Conditions should then be excellent for climbing until about the twentieth when the weather begins to make climbing dangerous...
Last week, waiting at Camp No. 3 for supplies, dogged Leader Ruttledge announced: "If the first attempt fails . . . it is planned to go on trying until the monsoon breaks...
...disappeared in the darkness like a comet with a trail of brilliant flame from the engine exhaust," said Pilot C. J. Melrose to a group of worried Singapore airport officials one night last week. Just in after a bad battle with a monsoon over the Bay of Bengal between Allahabad and Singapore, Pilot Melrose in his slow plane had seen the sleek Lockheed-Altair Ladv Southern Cross of Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith rocket past at 200 m.p.h., only 200 ft. above the waves. At that rate he should have reached Singapore long before Pilot Melrose. But when...
...around Shantung and into the Yellow Sea the Sheng An clanked steadily in the swell of a monsoon. Captain Vikhmann regaled Captain Taudien and his friends with vodka, smoked salmon, caviar. The Russian captain slept mostly with the first mate's Latvian wife but nobody seemed to mind, least of all First Mate Nicholas Azariev, hospitable and easy going. Finally one night when the Sheng An was 200 miles off Shanghai, the Germans and the Swiss went to work...
...yachts began to appear off Oahu's Diamond Head. None of them approached the record for the 2,200-mi. crossing: 11 days, 14 hr.. by Manner in 1923. First across the line was Vileehi, in 13 days, 3 hr. She was followed by Manuiwa, Burrapeg, Fandango, Monsoon, Altair and Dolphin. After four days, when the handicaps of all other possible winners had expired, officials of the Trans-Pacific Yacht Club announced the winner: Harold Dillingham's Manuiwa. William Candy's Burrapeg was second...