“STRATFORD EVENING POST” THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1930. A MOUNTAINEERING FEAT.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 85, 26 June 1930, Page 4

“STRATFORD EVENING POST” THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1930. A MOUNTAINEERING FEAT.

WHILE the expedition which set out on an attempt to make an ascent of Kinchinjunga, the .second highest mountain peak in the world, was forced to abandon that enterprise, six of its members have accomplished a : feat in climbing* that has few .equals in the history of mouii taineering. Kinchinjunga must, like Everest, remain in barren inaccessibility until science can aid even more than at present, tFe efforts of man to achieve the all but impossible. The despatches from the Kinehinjunga expedition have suggested, indeed •that an ascent of that remote peak defies accomplishment, and that the roof of the world is in small danger of being' stamped upon by adventurous scientists. It is questionable whether anv great regret need be expressed on that account. The climbers Jiave, however, achieved somethin <? very remarkably in scaling the rTonsoufr neak, the northerly outuost of "ffrnohiniunera and the hiarhest summit yet by man. * -Tonsoncr, according to the onhle m.essno'PS, ift feet above.sea level, thus falli""* short of Everest bv some 4800 foot., rmd of Kinchin iunea by 3SOO feet. Two members of the IR-rib'sh Everest "Rxnedition of 1922 reached 27.200 feet, and Mallorv and Irvine, in 1924. climbed to within .1140 feet of the sumroTF of Everest before they perished. These ascents remain the neatest ever recorded. but in neither case was the summit of the mountain reached and the scaling of Jonsong therefore, establishes a new record in mountaineering, liie members of the Kinchmjunga expedition may well feel gratified bv the climb they have made. -Ton son- apparently presented no easier surface to the mountaineers than any of the peaks exceeding it in i altitude. Tts precipes are saici to rival those of Kmehinpnga in height, and the clangor from the avalanches that continually break off from the Himalayan £o walls and hurl down for thousands of feet was Passing pleasant, indeed,. is the picture of these lean but unbowed WM«W but victorious, panting the standard of intern agonalfneiiU ship and goodwill upon the duffl* bli 7 richreof the con quered Jonsong leak.