Few of those who road about tire tromendous assau.lt that has been on Mount Everest, the, highest mountain in the worM, have any real ideawhat climbing this vast peak meaMs. If we could, make a great pi'te, placing Snowdon on top of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the' Alps, and then put Ben Nevis on top of that, and Vesuvius on top again ; and', then on this Vast pile we stood, first, the Great Pyramid, and then at St. Paul's Cathedral, and then the London Monument, and then the 'Nelson column, and then Cleopatra's l Needle, we should still be some distance short of ' the height of Mount Everest. No wonder it is' a tremendous straggle, to get to the top.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3136, 25 September 1922, Page 2
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