Word: himalayan
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Only a fragmentary dispatch to Sir Francis Younghusband, President of the Royal Geographical Society, was received. It recorded that George Leigh Mallory, one of the greatest and most experienced of all Alpine and Himalayan mountain-climbers, and A. C. Irvine, young Oxford graduate and one of the novices of the expedition, had perished on the last attempt. How or where was not known, except that they came a few hundred feet nearer the summit than the record of the 1922 expedition (27,250 feet).* There was no official communique from Colonel Norton, but his last one, written...
Animadverting upon the Stinnes ch?iacter, Harden writes: "Does broad, wild, smiling Nature delight him? I am not sure. I rather believe that if a magician had whisked him to a high Himalayan plateau he would instantly have begun studying its geological and economic possi- bilities...