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...engage Ibrahim's men, Indian soldiers seasoned in the steaming jungles of Burma slogged up snowy mountainsides. Bombers took their missiles over Nanga Parbat, fifth highest mountain in the world. At the extreme east end of the front, at Ladak, a strange land where the people are Buddhists and feel more affinity to Tibet than Kashmir, an Indian division was flown in by planes that climbed 20,000 feet over the Himalayas...
Sixth tallest measured peak in the world is 26,620-ft. Nanga-Parbat ("Mountain of Horror"), 900 mi. northwest of Everest.* A British army officer named A. F. Mummery tried to scale it in 1895. He and two Ghurka porters disappeared crossing a high pass. No one attacked Nanga-Parbat again for nearly 40 years...
...loves golf. At 33 he had hoisted his leather breeches to the tops of more unsealed Alps than any other U. S. citizen. Five months ago Alpinist Herron went to India with Miss Elizabeth Knowlton of Boston, only two U. S. members of a German expedition to climb Nanga Parbat, one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas (26,629 ft.). In August he was nearly crushed to death by an avalanche but reached an altitude of 23,000 ft. before bad weather beat the expedition back...