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Show of climbing greatly increases the torture tor-ture of the lungs at high altitudes, " H'ha.1 been suggested that tanks of oxygen can be taken io high places "as a temporary help. Whyruper s opinion was that this plau was Impracticable. Im-practicable. Oxygen enough for the i purpose would be very bulky to trans-port; trans-port; besides, what the lungs long for under rduced pressure is not oxygen or laughlng-iias, but. just air. in a balloon, oxygen might keep a man from fainting long enough to open his vale nnd start downward, but that is about all. It Is possible, then, that the earth holds one impsslhle ' stunt" for aspiring as-piring man It Is possible than no I one will ever get to the top of it. though the way looks so easy, cool and Inviting. It Is certain that If any man does eer s'and on earth's highest high-est peak It will only be by the expenditure expen-diture of a voat amount of money: '. and the mau must be one of the r- 1 traordimtry physical powers. epeclal-Iv epeclal-Iv adapted to the frightful strain. It ! is probable that no man caj) vor , riimb Everest without srave danger, bad frost disfigurement and the weakening weak-ening of hl.s physique for the rct of ! his life. bcn considered adlsablc to estab-' llsh camps, for at a higher level the system cannot restore Itself by sleep at night for toll by day. And every foot climbed above that leel is accomplished ac-complished In physical pain and only hy means of the utmost effort nf the will-power of wbl:h p?rhas. man is capable The effect of cold Is In part avoided by choosing mo mtains in hot climates. cli-mates. Even near the equator, on Chimbornzo, Why rimer's guides bally froze their feet. The cold which Mrs. Mullock Workman and 'be Duke "f Abruzzi mnt have met on their Ind'an mountains was as severe as tint which Capt. Cacti' of the Abruzzl Pol u expedition ex-pedition encountered rvlien in iMu he made the then "farthest north " The temperature of 3S r ported In-Cook In-Cook at the Pole can le found bv climbing any tropic mountain to the required height, even In summer or by yclng tin in a hall-xm. Could o man live on Hie too of Ml Everest, even If an airship should set liim there? It is extreme'y doubtful In 1';2 Glaisher and Coxwe'll. Fnc-llsh Fnc-llsh balbv-nlsts. ascende I to a great ! height. One fell Inseuslb'e, the other j nearlv so They sal.l th"y had rearh-i rearh-i c d a height of six mlbs. l"l t'ds nitty j be doubted, for In 1S73 Tls-andier and j his. two a-ssistants. with better Instru-! Instru-! ments, rose five and one-third miles j nnd the adventure v.ps at once fatal to the Um assistants. Tv- height i they reached was bss than that of; I Mc" nt Everest and they bad m. plnsl- i i cal lal-or to do. The slightest effort j A NEW RECORD THE HIGHEST CLIMB ITS COST The Duke of Abruzzl's "Highest Up" Closely Follows the Cook or the Peary "Farthert North" Can Man Ever Climb Earth's High-est High-est Mountain and Bear the Frightful Strain of Its Rarefied Air? The Italian Duke of the Abruzzl. who is popularly supposed to have gone mountain-climbing in India because be-cause his folks wouldn't let him marrv an American girl, haa arrived at Marseilles Mar-seilles with the scalp of the highest mountain yet climbed by man at hl3 belt. His party ascended Brjght's Peak iu Hindustan, which is about 21,-700 21,-700 feet in height On the same day Miss Peck, whose exploit In ascending Huascaran In South America has been greatly exaggerated ex-aggerated as to height, published a let ter declaring that since l9uo she has ceded to Mrs. Fanny Mullock-Workman the palm as the champion woman mountain climber., Mrs. Bullock-Work man's record Is 23,30'; feet, also In India. In-dia. Mount Everest is some 29.R02 feet high. It is the shining goal of every monntaln-cllmhei Mhat lives. It is to him what the North Pole was to Cook and Peary and a regiment of men for 3iio years before the '"! of the world. Ii looks easy, stand1 ng down in the valley, to climb Everest, hut it Is possible pos-sible that no man will ever step upon its crest even froni an airship. Miss Peck in her letter to Mr. Bullock-Workman Bullock-Workman alludes to one reason. It crjfcts a fortune to climb a new mountain moun-tain of great height. To take three persons up even the ol 1 familiar Mont Mlanc or Matterhorn costs some .10n. exclusive of outfit. To cllmh Aconcagua Acon-cagua .Sf.O feetl manl f:r Fitter-al.l Fitter-al.l a special expedition with heavy stores, oleliteon months c.f effjr', building a line of rnpnly ennrs part wav up (he mountain and after all he never got no himself, thouju hi Swiss glide did, for the sol- rcaon that the Swlsg cculd stand the in e faction of the air un them and Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald could not. The Inst part of the climb w-as an onsv slope, but he stageered up it, panting like a fish out of water or a mouse under an air pump. He never reached Mrs, Bnl lock-Workman's level. On the slightlv lower mountain Chlmborazo 121,408 feet) Whyir.per. the famous conqueror of the Matt?i-horn, Matt?i-horn, conducted a series of cxperl ments to s.'o if by continued living at high altitudes men could ct used to "mountain sickness V Apparently the, can to seme extent, hut In time tie body pets tired and there Is a bad reaction. The trouble comes, for very sir-"g peopl mainly above 18.000 fe'. Up to 14 000 or l.'.Ooo feet the effect of altitude upon persens wpli htrong hearts Is simply exhilarating. The new raPmal up the .Tun'fra'i gives the best cxttniple ef this. Starting Start-ing from tho conn a- atively low altitude alti-tude of Interlalien a pa-sscn-rer Is tk-en tk-en In a few hours to a height of ab-tr. 12,000 feet at the Eismeer. He fo!s as If he owned th earth. The exbi , aration In like that of wine. He drapes about in bh'h srdrlts Dropping down again at nightfall the consequent do pression is almret unbearably T'ie J man's thoughts change to ruin. su,cld-- and the hprolessness r.f the her-of-ter. A slrnl'ar depression was suffered suf-fered by EniPsh v soldiers coming down out of Thibt. Both effects ar avoided when tho afeeni and descent om more gradual. Both are r.oted tf a less decree on the Pike's Peak railroad rail-road In Colorado, for the eonu,antlv?-ly eonu,antlv?-ly high tableland below is something , of a preparation. Even at that, people got decidedly frisky on the ".Peak, no matter how staid thev mav be below. In Denver, which Is' only' scnre .5,000 fet above sea-level, the attendants upon the Democratic Convention foind tint It takes a smaller amount of whiskey than In New Yofk to upset a ;nn. FrlsklneKs anlsheK about IG.ouO feet. Above li'.Oun leel it has never |