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...Valley, discouraged by the failure of gold mines in the vicinity, yesterday arrived in New York City and began colonizing the vast wastes of the Empire State Building," related the Bawl Street Journal. "By nine o'clock last night all the pioneers had staked out claims on the plateau-like stretches between the fortieth and eightieth parallel. Little watch fires gleamed in hundreds of windows while hungry bond and insurance salesmen prowled below on Fifth Avenue, snarling and pointing menacingly at the clifflike structure...
Nanda Devi lies in a region difficult of approach in the headwaters of the Ganges. The mountain itself is technically hard, being of the precipitous Materhorn type and rising sharply from a plateau 15,000 feet in elevation...
...most interesting feature of this peak however, is the problem of getting through the range of mountains which surround it and almost completely prevent access to it. These peaks lie in an unbroken range of about 22,000 feet and enclose a valley or plateau in the center of which stands the single peak Nanda Devi...
...Plateau States did better. Notable was Colorado's able Frank Mechau who showed a fine big canvas of seven running horses, four of them without ears (TIME, March...
...last week. As Marshal Badoglio's war machine lumbered and built roads and climbed forward, Italy's crack troops scaled the terrific 11,000-ft. heights of grim Mount Alaji (25 miles farther on) and the flag of Italy was again fairly up on the great Ethiopian Plateau...