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Show I . Monarch of Mountains Baffles All Efforts To Reach Summit LONDON, June 26. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Mount Everest has again baffled the best efforts of men. The Calcutta correspondent of the Dally Telegraph today confirms pre? vlou's reports that Brigadier General C Uru.e. head of the present expedition, expe-dition, has been forced to the conclusion con-clusion that persistence In the effort to scale the peak would result only In useless tragedy. General Bruce was most reluctant to abandon further attempts, hut th! condition In which the last climbing . oartles returned, the advice, ot hi-i medical officers and the certainly of. worse conditions forced him Into the d i Ion -lays the writer. Major H. E Morsehead Is the worst sufferer from frost bite. G. H. M 1 ' -lorv and another member of the, parly also were badly bitten and several others less severely. The correspondent quotes one of the "greatest authorities on Himalayas,'' Hima-layas,'' assaying that Bruce's ' glorious glo-rious failure' has proved ooncluslvely that th summit is almost unattainable. unattain-able. The authoritative view In laid la-id la is that If un expedition start j earlier In the season It might be bare ly possible to reach wll bin a thousand thou-sand i. el of t Ijh top, but that the, last lap could only be covered by almost al-most superhuman effort under un-precedentedly un-precedentedly favorable weather conditions con-ditions and by men who faced the ecrtaintv thej would never return. Note Even at a point several hundred feet below the summit, tha climbers were so high that the ilr became too rare to sustatin life. It was necessary for the climbers to arrv owg.-n ' ink- snapped to ih.-ir ba.k- or they would have dlod of suffocation.) i |