EVEREST EXPEDITION
GLORIOUS PANORAMIC VIEWS.
FLOWER DECKED COUNTRY.
BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYBIGHT
Received Sept. 12, 9.10 a.m. LONDON. Sept. 10. Reports from tho Mount Everest expedition, dated Kharta, September 17j show that much interesting exploration has been done in the eastern val- | leys in seeking an approach to Everest j itself. One party climbed to the summit of Langmals, 18,000 feet, and also explored the spur opposite Everest, 19,400 feet, obtaining glorious pano-" ramie views ol vast cliffs, gorges, and glaciers. The expedition met with much flower-decked. grassy country on the slopes. Experience decided the leaders that it should be impossible to ascend Everest from the East. They ore now exploring the valleys round Makalau and Kharta-tsing-po Valley^ which are clothed with the most luxuriant vegetation. A feature or the district is the number of lakes, whereas lakes are very rare in the Himalayas.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 September 1921, Page 5
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