PERILS OF HIMALAYAS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20595, 20 June 1930, Page 11

PERILS OF HIMALAYAS.

DYHRENFURTH'S PARTY. BOULDERS FALL IN CAMP. BRITISH CLIMBER'S ESCAPE. PEAK TO BE ATTACKED. By Tolegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received Juno 19, 7.55 p.m.) Times Cable. LONDON, June 18. Advices from tho Himalayan expedition's camp at tho base of Jonsong peak, dated May 31, state: — . "Kanchenjunga has beaten us, but wo aro prepared to attack Jonsong peak (24,340 feet), the northerly outpost of Kanchenjunga, in an effort to gain tho highest Himalayan summit yet reached. Its precipices rival those of Kanchenjunga in height and grandeur. "These precipices are defended by icewalls of enormous thickness from which avalanches continually break off and thunder down thousands of feet. Ileyr E. Schneider (Austria) and Herr U. Wieland (Germany) discovered a practicable route up Jonsong, and Herr Schneider alono climbed to an altitude of 23.470 feet up an unnamod peak. " Tho Himalayas, however, tako defeat hardly. That night they threw down boulders toward tho camp and nearly annihilated Mr. F. S. Smythe (Britain). Ho was sleeping peacefully and awoke to hear a series of crashes. He realised that boulders wero descending on his tent and that there was nothing to do but huddle up in his sleeping-bag. "Later Mr. Smythe found a huge rock embedded in a snowdrift threo yards behind tho tent., Two days later another fall nearly killed Frau Dyhrenfurth, wife of tho leader of tho expedition."