Of the articles and reports published in the Journal two are of outstanding interest—"Nanga Parbat, 1937" by Paul Bauer, and "The Ascent of Chomolhari, 1937" by Spencer Chapman. In the former, Herr Bauer tells the story of the events leading up to the disastrous avalanche. which, on the night of June 14, overwhelmed and killed Karl Wem, six of his compatriots and nine porters, who were all of the German expedition engaged in an attempt to ascend Nanga Parbat in the spring of 1937. Of the climbing party only Ulrich Luft, in charge of the Base Camp, remained. He, pushing on, with pleasant anticipatory thoughts of meeting his friends at Camp 4. found that camp obliterated. He says, in a despatch written from the Base Camp:
At midday I reached the foot of the ridge of rocks and ice which comes down from the Rakhiot peak.
knew that Camp 4 had been built up here on the 1th June, Not finding any trace of the camp I waited in the track of a gigantic ice aval-ancha. A scrae some 900 metres above had split off and strewn a vast field enormous ice-blocks and debris down the slope. The porters following slowly in my tracks only confirmed the worst of my fears. This was exactly the spot on which Camp A had stood........
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