JONSONG PEAK

Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 June 1930, Page 5

JONSONG PEAK

j OUTPOST OF KINCHINJUNGA EXPEDITION’S ASSAULT CLIMBERS IN GREAT PERIL. (‘'Tilings'* Cables.) LONDON, .Jiuie IS. Advice from Jonsong Bleak base- ©amp oai May 31 states: “Kinobinjunga lias , beaten us, but ive are prepared to attack Jon song Peak, of 24,340_ feet, the northerly outpost of Ivmchinjunga, in an effort to gain tlio highest Himalayan summit yet reached. Its precipices rival those of ivincihinjunga in height and grandeur. Tht»o picci'pices are defended by ice-walls of enormous thickness, from which avalanches continually break off, thundering down thousands of .feet. “Schneider and Wei and; discovered a practicable route up Jonsong, and Schneider alone climbed 23,470 feet up an unnamed peak. “The Hima'lavais, however, take defeat hardly. That night they threw down boulders towiard the camp and nearlv annihilated Sinythe, who _ sleepily 'peacefully and awoke to hear a. .series of 'crashes. He realised that the boulders were descending on the. tent, and that there was nothing to| do lint huddle up in Ids sleeping bag. Later he found a huge rock embedded in a, snowdrift three yards behind the tent Two days later another tall nearlv killed Frau Dykrenfurtb. ’’