nvm Mintatavan Jounwat—Records of the. Himalayan Club. Edited by Kenneth" Mason. Vol. ITI. 1090.
Clarendon Press, Oxford. @/- oF
This annual record of the Him Javan Club comes {0 hand just at the time when news has been re-eelyed of the gallant failure of the 1090 Everest Expedition, So attention is at once caught by Erie Shipton's account of the reconnaissnnee of Mount Everest carried out in 1935 og a prelude to the now abandoned expedition of this year. The main objects of the reconnaissauce were to collect data about monsoon and snow conditions at high altitudes and to investigate the possibility of the monsoon oF ost-monsoon attempt, to examine possible alternative routes from the West, to report on the ice formations fon the North Col, to test new men suitable members for the main expedition, to investigate the question of provisions, and to carry out Romance could not be expelled even in the snow-capped heights, The temptation of sliding down the snow guilles was irresistible to the European members of the expedition, but the Sherpa bearers, not accustomed to the glissade and, moreover, encumbered by their loads, were advised to descend by the easier if longer road presented by the rocks, One of them, named Pasang, despise ed. this cautious alternative and Getermined to enjoy the glissade Uke his European colleagues. He Jost control and.cartwheeled down, the slope. Fortunately his pack Yecame detached and thus the major catastrophe was avoided as it Were by a miracle, for Pasang escaped with nothing worse than 2 badly bruised leg. He was, however, temporarily off active duty and a pony which had been bringing Up supplies took him down for attention in a neighbouring village When he rejoined the party, safe and sound, in the Kharta valley ho had equipped himself with a wito and brought her back with him to India. It is not given to many men find matrimonial bliss at 20,000 feet above sea level.
Fascinating Travels The journal fs os usual full of most fascinating accounts of travels in the Himalayas in maintaining its record of the Club's activities. John Hunt, @ sapper. subaltern, contribu a. stere photogrammetric survey of ules an account of the climbing of the*neighbourhood of Everest. The Peak 36 in the Saltoro Karakorant present expedition has been defeated Colonel Gurdon deals historically by the premature arrival of the with the exploration of Kafiristan monsoon, and Shipton's reconnalsand throws remarkable light on the Since throws special light on that powers of endurance and courage of point, It is to be feared it does not those early travellers. J. FS. Hold out much encouragement to Ottley describes a journey into Attempls to Western Chitral; and climb climb the mountain after the mon-Istor-o-Nal, 24271 feet, is vividly oon are considered to be quite im- recorded by R. J. Lowder, Here' practicable and the only time of the the mountaineers were handicapped Sear when there isa reasonable by unsatisfactory porters, a circum
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