Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-29 | Page 4 | Cannot Climb the Peak

T CANNOT CLIMb THE PEAK. Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, is not to be scaled. The Bruce ruoun-tain ruoun-tain climbers were within 2200 feet of the top when they confessed Inability I to go higher. The highest point j reached by three of the expedition) was 26,800. Mount Everest is 29,000 feet, and ! Is the highest mountain in the world. I At 26,800 feet there Is a ridge which is almost a perpendicular wall ot stone. Mighty wind and snow storms rage on the peak, adding to the dlffi- cultles of those attempting to get even j near the top. The failure of Mallory, Summer- ville and Norton to go beyond 26.S00. ! after two years of preparation and with all possible camp equipment, in- j eluding oxygen gas, may end the venture ven-ture and leavo the peak of Mount Everest a challenge to man. But the mountain will l,e climbed, Venturesome men will continue to struggle up the great mountain and try new methods The North Pole for cehturl a eemed closed to man, bul th( v. a) waa found by which to gain the dreary region. oo