A HOPELESS TASK.
CLIMBING KINCHINJINGA. THE MOTHER OF AVALANCHES. MOUNTAINEERS ADMIT DEFEAT. BLIZZARD FOLLOWS BLIZZARD. (World Copyright.) (Received June 9, 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 8. A message from the base camp, dated May 22, states:— “Kinchinjinga has beaten us.” Our last hope was the west ridge, but our best efforts proved that the ascent is impossible. “No mountaineers have been confronted with a harder or more hopeless task than Kinchinginga’s northern face, which is mere rock and ice. The work has been the hardest and most difficult alpine work we have attempted. “Blizzard succeeded blizzard, but the worst thing of all was the. awful avalanches. “Kinchinjinga Is the awful mother of avalanches. They fall 6000 feet, taking miles of level glaciers in their stride. “We were -convinced that Kinchinjinga is impossible by the north ridge route, and decided to attempt tiie west ridge. We breastod the crest. Then our" hearts sank as we gazed at that which we had hoped to climb. “There has never been a mountain face which has so damped the optimism of the human pigmies crawling at its base,"
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18041, 9 June 1930, Page 7
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183A HOPELESS TASK. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18041, 9 June 1930, Page 7
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