A few days ago, Mr. Margigraff, German mountaineer, with con: siderable experience in Alpine climbing, visited Tachienlu and determined to try and make of this snow] Going tw" and a-halé} days beyond Tachionla he—spent! three days at Zonwzha. Unfortunately the weather was not} Mowever, he got some} readings and one vertical! rather two readings,—The)
readings from Tachientn and Zongzha, 101 and 145, respec tively, might' easily give the si of the mountain as the Tsun 1 or the snow mountain marked 17,000 fect below Zonszh:
Mr. Marggraff, as far as we! know, is the first European to! make any attempt to measure this sixantic mountain, With his Alpine exp vl to put the moun ower than the other who have seen it. This German mountaineer showed tremendous enthusiasm in} call it, and climbed the mountains around Tachienlu to get 'A purty of Chénglu planned to measure the mountain, but the disturbed and unsettled eon-/ dition of the roads and country has male this impossible.
Mr. Marggratt, as spent many' years in Samoa and Java, Bas usually found "in the native -ad-) any point of as to height. or distance of any object, that the natives are generally right. Time] and again, and under' repeate? questioning, the Tibetans in Minya have maintained that te Zharala, the Gongga, the female mountain.
One peculiar thing about bots these mountains. is their modesty. Only occasionally and under very rare conditions will they come into public view. It is possible to be in the direct range of the Garggar for ten days and never see it once. The two peaks are frequently enveloped in mists up to 20,000 fect and what is seen above is seldom believed to be mountain at all, The American Geographic is well known for its beautiful photographs and these may yet reveal to a wondering world the height and grandeur of the Zhara and the Gongea.
The Zhara known by the Chinese as sen son mountain," there around its upper reaches a number of inland fresh water Inkes. This snow mountain is also the rendezvous of one of the fiercest robber bands on the Tibetan-
Chinese border.
American Traveller Also to Investigate There is now some talk of Mr.
Joseph Bock, the American trave!- ler, coming to the frontier here on' behalf of the American Geographical Society. Fully equipped and well financed as his expeditions are, there is now som¢ hope that this great snow mountain may be measured. Mr. Rock has done much geographic work in the Yellow Lama's country to the south of the Ganggar and from that point he may have seen this high mountain. Should it prove, as some maintain, that it may be 30,000 fect high there is something in' store for mountain climbers.
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