To Attempt to Climb Nanda Kot in September Singapore, Aug. 2.
Bight young Japanese have passed through "Singapore on their way to the Himalayas, where they will at= tempt to climb the 22,580-fect-high peak of Nanda Kot, which has never yet been scaled.
The Japanese are equipped with circular snowshoes, with wooden spikes, which they consider superior to the Western kind. They will not carry oxygen.
They have been training months in Japan, and recently climb bed the icy slopes of Mount Hotaka (11000 feet) in a temperature of 50 degrees below Fahrenheit. It they conquer Nanda Kot, an attempt will then be made on Int. Everest (29,141
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