The controversy. between the climbers and the airmon is carried a step farther by Mr, N. E. Odell, member of the 1924 climbing expedition "under General" Bruce ant Brigadier Norton who in article in the "Sporting and Dramatic News,"
Mount Everest has been a problem in more than one respect ever since its dramatic discovery as the worlds highest summit in 1852. In that year the computers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India found that the peak had been observ. ed from six different stations at distance of approximately 100 miles southward on the plains, and on no occasion during the three previous years had the observer suspected that he was viewing through hi telescope the highest point in the world. Allowing for vi sible errors in observatic height of the mou at 29,002 ft, Tt will be already known by many that Mount Everest. is situated is" politically inaccessible, guarded the north by the forbidden land of Tibet, and hedged in on the south. be the closed Kingdom: of Nepal. Tu consequence, it was not possible for any party of explorers, survey~ ors, or mountaineers, to approach he mountain for many yea Soon after the war the questions of permission "to traverse either,
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