MOUNT EVEREST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13856, 20 March 1907, Page 5

MOUNT EVEREST.

———c> I'BOroSGD EXPEDITION I'ItOHIIiITED. Pros Association-By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON. March 18. Mr John Morley (Secretary for India), on grounds of public, policy, refuses lo permit the Itoyal Geographical expedition 1o ascend Mount Everest from the Thibetan eido. Sir Uenrgo Goldic protests against, the action nf tho Government in raisin" ;i Himalayan barrici against the advance of knowledge. Mount Kverest is tho highest known pealc in tho Himalayas, <>,- (|, a world, situated on the frontier of Nepal and Tibet. Reports of the Indian survey, issued last your, afl'ord details of vnliiable work, including a. map of Nepal, liy Ciiplain Wood, 11.13., ih» only topoKi'ttpliicnl one of (Wai- country yet published, in which is shown the true position of.'Mount, Kverest, the protip to which it liclong.l being distinct from (lie Central llim:il:iyns. In contrast to many mountains as lo which closer acquaintance, has nccMsitntcd tho reduction of tin; heii;ht lo thotn, it is believed that 140 ft will ha.vp to lie added to \\\« 29,000 ft with which it is already uccredited. Tibet, by reason of its physical characteristics, its great mountains, and its height above Hie level of the, sea, is of extreme interest, but the people are very much opposed to tho preselioo ot foreigners, and llritain has agreed not to annex Tibetan territory or interfere in its administration, China, undertaking not to permit any foreign Slate to interfere with the territory or internal- administration of Tibet.