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...Mount Everest is as yet unscaled, but Lowell Thomas and his party are optimistic of future success. Speaking at the Majestic Theatre, and illustrating his lecture with movies, colored pictures, and Eastern music, Mr. Thomas tells the story of the attempt which almost succeeded. But his lecture is chiefly based on the strange events of the expedition before it reached the mountain proper Many scenes never before filmed are shown, such as those of a Tibetan devil dance in one of the highest monasteries in the world. This is accompanied by weird music from the orchestra and is strangely attractive...
...third Everest Expedition (TIME, Feb. 11) left Darjeeling, northernmost...
...third time in three years, and with high prospects of success, a party of British army officers and explorers will attempt this summer to scale Mt. Everest, king of the Himalayas and the world's highest peak (est. 29,002 ft.). Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, who led the almost successful expedition of 1922, will again be in command. With him will be Major E. F. Norton, D.S.O., George Leigh Mallory, T. Howard Somervell, Captain C. J. Morris and Captain Geoffrey Bruce, of the 1922 party, all of whom reached heights of 27,000 ft. or over...
Ginger. Productions like this incubate and hatch the musical comedy population. Little Everest Smudge, aged 13, watches from the top gallery. Hope surges to his heart. "I'll go on the stage," he whispers to himself. "I could do better than that. God knows I couldn't do worse...
Macready's mark was 34,509.5 feet. Lecointe rose 35,432 feet (6.773 miles). Mt. Everest, Earth's highest peak, measures 29,002 feet. In 1901 two Germans ascended 34,500 feet in a balloon, a standing record...