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...German Alpine Association announced that it would send, on July 2, a German expedition headed by Captain von Peiser to ascend Mount Everest in the Himalayas...
...shall, therefore, refuse to permit another issue of the Bean Pot unless the entire editorial board is changed, and I am so advising the business manager and associates. I shall ask Dean Warren to discuss your standing with the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts. "'Yours sincerely, "'Everest W. Lord...
Those, who admired the dauntless courage of the Englishmen who attempted Mt. Everest, may yet pause to reconsider their hopes for those men's eventual success. The Anglo-Saxon race has the fine courage and the strong physique to undertake such feats. But is the world, after all, not the loser thereby? Would it not be better to leave these attempts to the Latin races? These feats are of little practical value; they are in the nature of magnificent gestures made by men in the face of the eternal. Are not the Latin races better equipped to enjoy such gestures...
...Signor Barolo of the Italian Alpine Club ascended Mt. Etna and then made, singlehanded, the dangerous descent into the crater. Notable as this feat was, it did not compare, in the endurance of hardships, great hazards and magnificent feats, with the circumstances which must attend an attempt on Everest. Yet when Signor Barolo returned he gave out these remarks to the press: "I went carefully and slowly, testing the ground with my stick at each step and I managed, at last, to get down the steep sides of the crater. My progress was also hampered by evil-smelling volcanic gases...
...last question, "Can Everest be climbed?" Colonel Norton answered with one word, "Assuredly." His reasons were that much more had been accomplished this year than in 1922 and many things had been learned. Only about 800 ft. of the mountain remained to be climbed. Indeeed, this may have been climbed by the two men who were lost. It was established that porters could carry the necessary equipment to nearly 27,000 ft. Under favorable conditions, he believed, a camp could be established at 27,300 ft. The main struggle was to have the party in good physical condition before making...