Word: srinagar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keys will embark on January 1 for Srinagar, Kashmir, India. The other members of the International High Altitude Expedition will join him here early in April, when heart action, blood pressure, metabolism, and other tests to be used as research will begin...
...Keys will leave for India Dec.20 to make arrangements for the expedition. The entire group will assemble at Srinagar, in the vale of Cashmir, April 15 and begin the 330-mile caravan journey on the famous Turkestan-Cashmir route, the highest road in the world. Twenty-five native drivers will accompany the 100 horses and 20 yaks which will carry six tons of food and equipment to the base camp site...
...party set out from Srinagar on May 2. Early in July they had pitched a camp at 23,000 ft., in sight of the heavily buttressed summit. Here screaming gales caught Merkl and two others. They and their porters started down. The Germans stopped at Camp No. 7. Nine porters reached Camp No. 5. Two of these died and three others were abandoned before the four survivors, frost-bitten and exhausted, reached Camp No. 4. From that point a rescue party of three started up the Mountain of Horror to look for Merkl and his two comrades, hardly hoping...
Through Damascus, Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul, 3.445 miles across Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan and northern India to Srinagar, Kashmir, the caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan stretched the vast Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. North of Srinagar loomed massive mountains with scarcely a trail across them. Leader Haardt left five of his cars in Srinagar, started up the steep slopes of the Himalayas with the lightest two. Steadily they climbed, up 35° inclines, along narrow...
...population of 3,300,000, of whom 80% are Moslems. But Sir Hari is a Hindu who holds his job through the good offices of Great Britain. Last week, while Britain was busy in the south, 12,000 Moslems streamed out of the Punjab, started north toward Srinagar with the object of dethroning Sir Hari and completing a solid block of Moslem states from Egypt to Central Asia. Near Rajaori, just north of Punjab, they sacked 14 villages, fired houses and post offices. State troopers hastily left Srinagar, while Sir Hari appealed frantically for British succor...