ASCENT OF MOUNT EVEREST.
Permission Officially Refused
(Received To-day, at 5.43 a.m.)
LONDON, Last Night.
Right Hon. John Morley, Secretary for India, ou the grounds of public policy, refuses to permit the Royal Geographical expedition to ascend Mount Everest from the Tibetan side.
Sir George Gordie protests that the Government are raising a Himalayan barrier against the advance of knoAvledge.
(Mount EA T erest is a peak of the Himalayas, in Nepal, aud is the highest ascertained peiint on the surface of the globe. It rises to a height of twenty-nine thousauel feet above the sea. It Avas named in honour of Sir Geeirge Everest, Suveryor-Gen-eral of India who completed, in 1841, the great trigonometrical survey, and retired tAvo years aftenvards).
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVI, Issue 8710, 19 March 1907, Page 5
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121ASCENT OF MOUNT EVEREST. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVI, Issue 8710, 19 March 1907, Page 5
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