HIGHER THAN EVEREST
NEWLY-LOCATED RANGE CALCUTTA, April 29. Belief that they had discovered a mountain apparently taller, than the peak of Mount Everest, hitherto regarded as the world’s highest, was expressed by an English explorer and his Canadian companion. In a letter, delayed in delivery from Zayul, south-eastern Tibet, by the murder of its native bearer, Mr Ivingdon Ward, the explorer, said he and Mr Ronald Caulback, a Canadian, bad come across a great range which they believed extended above Everest s 29.002 ft. Mr Ward said he received a personal permit from tho late Dalai Lama to enter Tibet. Most of tho inhabitants ho encountered had been friendly, he wrote, but in the Rong Thod \ alley the dense woods harboured strange (ribes which seemed likely to be hostile.
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Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 9
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