MOUNTAINS CLIMBED
FEAT IN SOUTH AFRICA. PERILOUS JOURNEYS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received January 2, 9.50 a.m. Capetown, Jan. 1. Mr George Londt, who has returned from an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro, states that he reached a height of 15,000 foot and spent a night in tho crater. Tho weather was mild throughout tho climb. Grass grows at an altitude of 11,000 feet and thence there is a weird wilderness of jagged rock to the crater, which is the dried up vent of tho once leading interior mountain.
Mr Londt found a book wrapped in oilcloth on tho edge of the crater, which was left by two German climbers 11 years ago. After 30 hours’ rest at tho crater Mr Londt scaled tho summit. Ho later made the ascent of Mount Konya. At 16,000 thousand feot he became snow blind, and thence amid swirling snow storms the natives accompanying him led him to tho summit and back to ail altitudo of 12.000 feet, where ho recovered his sight. Mr Londt, having scaled the two peaks, claimed that ho has the right to rename them.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 28, 2 January 1926, Page 7
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