NATURE’S WAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11046, 1 November 1921, Page 6

NATURE’S WAY

DISSOLUTION OF NORTHERN RANGE; OF HIMALAYAS. EXPLORERS INTERVIEWED. Published In "The Time*. - CALCUTTA, October 29. The northern range of the Central Himalayas is undergoing, in a geological sense, rapid dissolution, declare Colonel Bury and other members of the Mount Everest expedition, who were interviewed at Darjeeling. The Aru is not a raging torrent, but a sluggish stream, winding painfully throughobstructions of sand and debris. (The inhabitants say the river sometimes resembles liquid mud. Nature is ffiaking a tremendous onslaught on the northern range. Not only have landslips scarred the mountain sides, bnt the crowns and tops of the mountains are wearing awinr. Few ice-clad rocky peaks stand out. No longer is the mighty range snow-olad as it once existed. Mr Raeburn says that what tthey 0&w wer© not mountains, but shapeless enormous mounds- The great Himalaya range containing Everest, Kanchanjunga, and Makula, presenting an unbroken chain of snow-dad mountains, gains by contrast.