Peking, Oct. 31.
A party of four young Chinese left Peking last evening for Hankow, en route for Tibet, with the avowed intention of climbing Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. The party consists of Messrs. Li Shih-ming and Chu Linsi-yi, third-year students in the Depariment of Geology of the National University of Peking, and Wang Yao-hsien and Tou Tze-hsin, graduates of the Tientsin College of Industry and Commerce. They expect to enter Tibet from Sikang, returning by way of Chinghai, Sinkiang and Kansu.
Interviewed before their departure, the youthful explorers said the principal object of their expedition is to climb Mount Everest. - Incidentally, they will study the customs and modes of living of the people China's border districts. They carry with them a letter of introduction from the Panchen Lama to the "befan authorities. They expect to be gone about six months—Reuter,
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