Jonsong Scaled

Insurmountable obstacles, a furious avalanche and one death last month caused Gunther O.Dyhrenfurth's mountain climbing party to abandon hope of ever reaching the top of Kanchenjunga, 28,150-ft. Himalayan peak (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Disliking to return home with a blank page to show for a season's work, this most elaborate climbing party that ever set forth moved twelve miles north, started up Jonsong, 24,340-ft. brother of Kanchenjunga.

Last week dispatches to the New York Times told how, on June 3, two German climbers had reached Jonsong's pinnacle, highest yet scaled by man. Five days later another four made the ascent. As the latter group climbed they could see Everest, 50 mi. away, down whose appalling sides six years ago Arthur Comyn Irvine and George Leigh Mallory tumbled to their death after attaining higher ground (over 28,000 ft.) than any man before or since.

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