DANGLING IN SPACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20288, 22 June 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

DANGLING IN SPACE.

ROPE ON A MOUNTAIN.

Three Englishmen have lately climbed Mount Kenyo in South Africa. The mountain has twin peaks, and the high- | est peak was ascended by Sir Halford Mackinder in 1899, but. the peak called Nelion was' never, conquered till E. E. Shipton, P. Wyn Harris and G. A. Sommerfelt shook hands on its summit not long ago. Afterwards they ascended the other peak called Batian. It was a hard and exciting climb over tho ice and snow of the great mountain,' J| but perhaps the most dramatic incident | that occurred was the finding of a rope. . It hung at a spot of great difficulty, not; if} very far from the point where Sir Hal- i| ford Mackinder started his great ; traverse - of tho Diamond Glacier. The newcomers made many inquiries afterwards, and proved to their complete ./.j| satisfaction that this rope was left .by Sir Halford. It was startling to find » || man-made thing in that mountain soli, tude, and more startling to think thai ; ;l it had been hanging there ior 30 years. It locked as if it would Jail,to pieces !;■ if anyone touched it, so it alone. f much longerwill it hang there.?"- narrator pi thf |