Few of. those who read about the tremendous assault that has been made on Mount Everest, tho highest mountain in the world; havo any real idea wiiat olimbing' this vast peak means (says an English paper). If we could make a great pile, placing Snowdon on top of Mont Blanc, tho highest mountain in the Alps and then put Bon Nevis on top of that, and Vesuvius on top again; and then on tins vast pile we stood, first, the Great Pyramid, and then St. Paul's Catluedral, and then the London Monument, and then tho Nelson Column, and then Cleopatra's Xoedle, wo should still be pome dis'nnce short of the height of Momil T3ver«*ot. No wonder it i« a tfe- ! tncacloua struggle to get to the top. j
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 137, 7 December 1922, Page 3
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