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Japanese In Himalayas
/NJZ.PA.-Retrter-— Copyright) KATMANDU, July 7. Two Japanese mountaineering expeditions have returned to Katmandu following successful ascents on Himalayan peaks in Eastern Nepal. A six-man expedition, sponsored by Chiba University, reached the summit of the 22,800 ft previously unclimbed Mount Number on May 29. An expedition member, Mr Hiroshi Matsuo, a 26-year-old Tokyo engineer, and Sherpa Mingma Tsering, a mountaineering instructor, reached the summit after negotiating the almost perpendicular 1000 ft ice-.wall.
Another six-man Japanese expedition sponsored by Tokyo’s Agricultural University, failed to climb its first objective, the 24,100 ft high twin peaks on Kanchenjunga Massif, but reached the summit of their secondary target, 21,000 ft Mount Tsisima, on June 3.
The peak was climbed by a 23-year-old student, Mr Motochiko Kogo, and Sherpa Konga NorbU. They also climbed the nearby 20,700 ft Tsisima south peak.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30178, 9 July 1963, Page 8
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