Venice, Feb. 26.
A. scientific expedition, led Professor Dyhrenfurth, of Gegmany, departed on the steamship Ganges today for Bombay, The expedition will attempt to lime Kinchenjanga, a mou ain in the extreme cast high, and is the second loftiest peak inthe world, The party includes M. Erwin Schneider, the famous " Tyrolese mountaineer, Signor Enrico Gaspari, the Italian Alpinist, and Mr. F. Smythe, an, Englishman, The expedition has been preparing fox this attempt for twenty year Previous attempts to scale Mount Kinchenjunga were made in 1905, when the party met with di and in 1929, when the climbe compelled to return owing to bad weather, They had then covered 24,000
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