Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-05-17 | Page 15 | Roosevelt Game Hunt is No Summer Picnic

Roosevelt loosevelt Game Hunt Hun t Is No Summer S I LONDON May 16 UP Few up-Few Few know pf 91 f the hardships hardship that will confront the Roosevelt expedition when Jt en enters ers the passes and trails traUs of After entering Leh pass it may be three six or even ten months before the party Is heard from again It will have to endure extreme heat and extreme cold but butmore butmore butmore more of ot the latter than the former The party is in quest of the Ovis Poll a rare mountain sheep said to be bo the great-grandfather great of all mountain sheep the long-haired long tiger of tho the Tien Shan mountains the great Ibex the markor marker a giant mountain goat the stag and the gazelle To find some of these the Roosevelt Roose velt party will be compelled to go into places in Central Asia where so far as known Tio white man has yet penetrated Kipling said of ot the country Every mile stands on end the Explorers call caU It the top of ot world Even the zm mountain passes are feet above sea level and the country is almost devoid of ot tim tim- ber her It is said to be the highest wildest and most barren spot In the world Gathering the native bearers at in the Vale of Kashmir at atthe atthe atthe the northwestern extreme of India the party will attempt to go through the hazardous Leh pass the mail route to Tibet between Afghanistan Afghanis Afghanis- tan and Tibet to reach the pl plateau where they expect to find the Ovis Poll Poli From here the party will proceed across Chinese to the Tien Shan range range range-in in in the Jungles at atthe atthe atthe the foot of which they hope to find the long haired tiger Leh pass Is epen open only in the summer months and during tho the thaws the threat of avalanches and floods Is always present I Much of th the travel especially in inthe inthe inthe the pass will be done at night as the piercing cold that comes come the sinking of the sun will ch cli the thaw and there will be ger er from snow slides It Is that the party can travel mor TU one mils mile an hour In many pla pia they will have to cu cut their st with axes to make upward Reaching their a and dJ curing their game the of th the party must be hurried Leh pass pass will again be filled I snow in September Unless party returns through the pass pass pass' fore then the they will have the the theof hc of of being marooned In a count country rock and ice or working j out to civilization by a tortu Journey through Mongolia l Siberia The expedition was fitted p t James Simpson general manager Marshall Field company in behof beh bet behot of ot the Field museum and in con quence is known as the Roosevelt-Field Roosevelt Museum Besides Theodore and velt the other white man i ln party is 60 old 60 old ear white hair mild mannered George Cherry Cherry is a veteran a He was was with Roosevelt on his African expeditions and has has' hasa a amade amade made thirty-eight thirty exploring Jh into Central and South Americas America a athe the West Indies This is is' is th thela theja ba Cherry who one evening some some tWE tw tWEty wf ty odd years ago in the uP jipi reaches of the Orinoco in dropped his scientific tools an and twenty men of the anti anti tion drove droye a go gene and 40 soldiers out of ot town sf that the general fled In his pajala It Is just a coincidence that thai names of this expedition are aree exa ly by the same as on the t urs offAl of ca and South America only Theodore Roosevelt in this is the son and not the father